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Eclipse

Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed my very creative and original title to this month's update. I'm excited to share some of the final things we've done this semester before students embark on finals week and start their summer breaks. While they've all been slowing down, God certainly hasn't!

The Eclipse

I hope you get to enjoy the eclipse last month! Whether you saw it in person or not, enjoy some pictures of SMU Focus watching it together alongside thousands of other students on campus. One of our seniors, David, got some incredible pictures with his professional camera!


Note just how many people showed up to watch. Several thousand!
Upon seeing it, Garrett voiced the good hope that that's only a fraction of the people who will soon join together in unity from every nation to praise our Lord!






EOY Banquet

We had our end of year formal last week, which went great! We spent time honoring our student leaders, our graduating seniors, all over a nacho bar donated by Chiloso. Here's a pic of some of the guys in my small group from this year. 2 of them (Luke and Toby) are planning to step up as leaders in our ministry next year!

SMU Staff Team

You may remember some or all of these faces, but this is the SMU Staff team that I've been working with all of this year. Siena in the middle, and April on the bottom right are both transitioning off of our team this year, but we do have one person joining!

Garrett's wife Erika has volunteered to stay home with their kids the last several years but now that both of their kids are old enough for school, Erika decided that she'd like to use her extra time to build God's kingdom on the college campus alongside us at SMU!


It was a great year and God moved in big ways! (Most recently this month, God has made big moves connecting us with a lot of influential Greek students at SMU, and I'm excited to share more about it as plans become more clear. But God is absolutely at work there!)

Pray for our students as they enter Finals week tomorrow, and for their summers. So many students will waste away their summers as couch potatoes binging Netflix, but some take advantage of all the free time to deepen their relationships with the Lord, their friends, and their family members back home. My prayer is that our community will be filled with the latter, this summer!

Please also say a prayer for our broader FOCUS staff team this summer as we plunge into support raising season so that we can continue to meet with students full-time during the school year. Your support has meant the world to me, and I can't wait to see what God has in store for the college campus next year and over the summer.

Your brother,
Taylor


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