Students' Month of Outreach

Hi everyone! Another month of ministry is in the books. Thank you all for taking the time to read through some of how God's been blessing the college students of SMU this past March!

Guy's Trip

A group of guys in FOCUS took a weekend trip to wrap up spring break! We found an air bnb just off of Lake Texoma! 11 came out! We had a great time.

What do you think we're looking at?

Game: Betrayal

Game: Carcassonne

Lots of food!
Not captured: Jacob singeing his finger tips on the flattop grill. He's okay! Just may not be identifiable by fingerprints for a while.

Lots of food!

A thoroughly nutritional breakfast

Creamery

A group of students recommended and introduced me to a sick ice cream place just off campus after our weekly fellowship night last week. So good!

I'll let the clip speak for itself

Month of Outreach

We made March a "Month of Outreach," where we encouraged our students to go out and be invitational to their classmates, roommates, and anyone else they come into contact with in their day-to-day life! We preached exclusively on evangelism all month. We deconstructed the problematic connotations and misconceptions surrounding the word, and dug deep into what the writers of scriptures meant when using it! Then we helped our students think through how we can be living as evangelistic disciples in our relationships!

We wrapped up the month of outreach by having a guest speaker come to offer advice about dealing with fear & anxiety as college students. Eddie is a licensed Christian counselor & therapist in Dallas. Our students make up the most statistically anxious generation on record and this event was a way to offer them resources on how to navigate those waters.

We had a great turnout! We had a ton of students who had never come to a FOCUS event before come to learn about navigating fear & anxiety.

15+ of our students took time out of their day earlier this week to advertise the event to other SMU students! We took time asking people how they're really doing, then invited them to the Eddie's seminar. We also got the chance to pray for many of them!

Thanks so much for taking the time to read through this month's ministry update! I hope it blessed you and I hope you know how appreciative I am of your support.

Be praying for Pizza Theology tomorrow evening, and for our students as they start wrapping up their classes for the year.

Your brother,
Taylor

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Ministry in the Mountains!

To all my friends working in schools, happy summer! Erin just had her last day at the elementary school this past Friday, and I know she certainly needs a break. Even though our semester ended a few weeks ago, God's still been moving in our community! We had our annual student leadership / campus ministry conference (SICM) and our 4 SMU students Miles, Jessica, Michelle, and Ruth, had an extremely meaningful time. I've got lots of pics to share from it! Mustangs in Washington! Jessica, Miles, myself, Michelle, Ruth! Chinese food! Glamor shot SICM completion certificates! Beautiful sunset view from WWU All 120 SICM students & staff prayed over our SMU team for the coming school year. Very meaningful! Adventure! The Freemont Troll Rattlesnake Ledge Trail (5 mile hike!) Not pictured: Me almost throwing up 4x from the climb Our host, Bob! He housed Miles and me all week, fed us, and took us to the mountains between Mt. Shuksan and Mt. Baker! We had a great time getting to know

Endings and New Beginnings

We've made it to and past the final stretch! I've got some bitter-sweet pictures to share with y'all this month. End of Year Party We had our last big event of the year! The university offered to cater dinner, and the students spent time sharing how they've seen God working through individual people in our community this year. We also took some time to recognize our leaders and seniors, thanking them for all the effort they've poured into their peers. Laurence, our campus director, is officially on leave with his new baby! He's the one with the artistic touch so that means Siena and I had to do our best. I think it turned out awesome after all! Wholesome Wholesome part 2 Our graduating seniors! We made them Christmas ornaments as a gift so they can have a yearly reminder of the ways God has blessed them through this community while they were in college! We asked each of them to say a prayer each year for the new students who will be following in their footsteps.

Welcome Charli to the Family!

Hi everyone! I hope you've been enjoying your air conditioners this month. Ours went out the other day and the indoor temp got up to 90 degrees before our mechanic was able to fix it up. 🥵 Makes me praise God for the blessings we take for granted. Renting a house! Erin and I have had a couple of life changes this month! First of all, we moved into a house in Garland! We can't wait to have lots of guests. We've gotten to start that in the last couple weeks with our aunt & uncle (shoutout Brenda & Jeff, who read these updates!) and some good friends in our church (shoutout to Josh & Mandi who also read these!). We're so excited for this to become a space where friends, family, students, and all kinds of people feel welcome and experience God's goodness through friendship. Praise God for community! Got to warm the house with some SMU guys! If you're a nerd like us and want to know the boardgame, it's called Zombicide. 10/10 recommend. Meet Charli!

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