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Kicking Off w/ Waffles and Worship

Hi everyone! Thank you for taking the time to read this month's ministry update! This has been a month of preparation and August will be a week of action so I'm enjoying these next few days as the calm before the storm!

Welcome week

The SMU team has been spending a large chunk of July preparing for the first couple weeks of the semester which we call Welcome Week. Here are a few of the new events we're planning!

Waffleopolis is an idea we took from UTA! I remember this being one of the most loved traditions the university held and we're gonna try our hand at it! Basically just hundreds of waffles for college students to gorge themselves on as our student leaders build friendships with them lol
Fun fact, I generated this image using AI!

"Coffee House" was one of our most successful events the past couple years and this year we're bundling it into our first worship night of the year so that hopefully a lot of students catch a taste of our love for Jesus!

Last year we impromptu set up a volleyball net in front of a few dorms and invited students to come play. It ended up being our most well-attended welcome week event! So this year we're doing it 4 times in front of different dorms across campus.

Back to School

Best of luck to our teachers who are getting ready to start the new school year with their kids! Erin just finished setting up her classroom in Garland. She'll be teaching Resource this year, which will specifically be small groups of Special Ed students K-2! She's stoked and can't stop talking about how excited she is to meet her new kids next week.



Would you be able to tell that most of her wardrobe is black & grey?



We're gearing up for big things this month! August & early September are like Super Bowl month for campus ministers. Can't wait to update y'all next month with the ways we've gotten to watch God work in the lives of these college students he's preparing us to meet.

Thank you so much for your support! I wouldn't be able to do this full-time and with as much confidence if I didn't have such an incredible team backing me up. Keep praying that these lost & lonely college students will find life in community and ultimately in Jesus!

Your brother,
Taylor

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