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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!

The second big change this month was getting a dog! Her name is Charli and we adopted her from a kind woman in East Texas whose health issues were preventing her from vet visits and such. It's been super fun watching her warm up to our guests. Our hope and prayer is that she'll be socialized enough by late August to bring her onto campus to meet new students during SMU's welcome week!

Raccoon lookin'

Affectionate raccoon

Summer FOCUS

College students from across DFW have continued to meet weekly over the summer! It's been meaningful getting to introduce my new SMU friends to my old ones at UTD and UTA!

If you zoom in to the right side of the previous pic, you'll see these 3 men joined in arms praising God together. This warms my heart so much. One of the 3 is a UTD student who I met at SICM last month. This inspires me to join together with my neighbors in solidarity and to express physical intimacy with my brothers, regardless of what our culture often deems as not properly masculine.


I hope this update blesses you and fills you with excitement about what God will do in our college communities this coming year, and even over the summer. Thank you all so very much for your support. I'm beyond blessed to have such a generous and loving network backing my work and the work of Jesus in these hungry students.

Your brother,
Taylor


P.S. This month's student testimony was written by Miles, who you may remember from last month's update! :)

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