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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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