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The Transition Begins

As of 12:00am this morning, the FOCUS Apprenticeship has officially concluded!

Thank you all for your support throughout the year and for believing in me and in God's mission on the college campus. 

If you're new here, welcome! And thank you for deciding to support me this upcoming year -- whether financially or in prayer. I pray that through these monthly ministry updates, God will bless and encourage you. He has many great things in store for college students this year and we all get to be a part of it!

Celebrations

The FOCUS Staff gifted us personalized metallic prints in celebration of officially completing the apprenticeship! I'll have to find a place to hang it in the new apartment when Erin and I get married next month. Here's to hoping she likes it as much as I do 🤞🏼


Graham, one of our apprentices (until 12am this morning, that is) at UTA designed this shirt for the apprentices! Each of us is represented by one of the little monsters. Bonus points if you can guess which one is me!

Past half-way!

Exciting news! We're 57% of the way to being fully supported for the 2022-2023 school year! That means it will only take 14 more supporters at $100/mo. Praise God!

Thank you all again so much. If you know anyone who would be encouraged to hear what God's been doing on the college campus, please shoot me a text or call! I'd love to chat with them. I'll likely have to expand my network beyond who I already know in order to reach full support by July.

In case you lost my number, it's (817) 718-7978

Summer Focus

Lastly, we had our first fellowship meeting of the Summer this past Thursday! As a student, I always loved these. Even more than our weekly fellowship meetings during the school year! It's such a cool experience watching friendships form from opposite ends of the metroplex because of a shared love of Jesus and his people. We will have 9 more over the next couple months and I'm stoked!

I'm very excited for this year and hope you are too! I'm asking God to bless this summer with a smooth transition from UTD to SMU Focus. Please join me in prayer, and specifically pray for the SMU students. You'll be seeing a lot more about them soon!

Thank you again!

Your brother,
Taylor

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