Howdy y'all!  With the end of July comes with gearing up for the Fall Semester! We are so excited to get back on campus and meet students! Before we can get there we have our Licensing Ceremony, which will be Thursday, August 1st at 7:30pm. This ceremony will be held at our Summer FOCUS and it is a time where staff get to commit to serving our students and striving to lead people like Jesus did! This time is so sweet especially when we get to make these commitments to a room full of our students! Saying this, I would love for all of you to be a part of this special event, whether that is in person or joining in on stream! The graphic below holds all the info for both options! Thank you so much for your role in making this possible!  We are so excited for this next school year and would love prayer for the students we are going to meet on campus. We pray that during the events we are putting on the first week of classes, crowds of students will come through the doors ready to hear

 Howdy y’all! I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!  June has been such a blast and with its end comes one step closer to being back on campus! I am so excited to see the new students God is going to bring our way and be able to build deeper connections with our returners! Saying that, I am still in the midst of fundraising for this next school year. I am about 64% to my goal which is such a blessing! I am still looking for more supporters to help me join God in the work He is doing on my campus! I would love it if you would help me think of people who would be interested in hearing more about my ministry or share the graphic I have attached here to your social media platforms! Thank you so much for all of your help!   This month was full of fun, bonding and rest in preparation of the busy school year ahead. Our Collin women's team was able to go on a trip to Alabama where we got to bond, spend time together, and rest with the Lord! It was so fruitful in building a deeper c

 Hey y’all!  This last month of the apprenticeship was so bittersweet! The sweetest thing from this month was that I was able to go along with our students to a leadership conference hosted in Washington called SICM (Students Institute of Campus Ministry). We send potential leaders from all of the FOCUS campuses for 10 days each year and they get to experience Washington while learning about how to be a leader in our community. This is such a life changing experience for so many people and it was such a blessing getting to be there for my students. There are so many stories I could share about students experiencing God in a new way at SICM but one that has been so encouraging is a student, who came to faith this year, wants to be baptized! What a sweet commitment that she is ready to make to the Lord!  Here are some pics from SICM! As most of you already know, I have decided to stay on staff and continue joining God in the work He is doing at Collin College! None of this work is possib

 Hello Everyone! Time is flying by! How are we already at the end of February?! It truly does not feel real to be coming closer to the end of this apprenticeship.  This month has been so busy and God has been doing so many great things in our ministry, from non-believers engaging in conversations about faith to seeing girls who have been Christians their whole lives getting serious about building their adult life on God! It has been a true blessing to be a part of! Even though this month's update could be about so many things, I want to share some exciting news will all of you! After much prayer and thought, on the directors end as well as mine, I will be staying on staff with FOCUS this next year at Collin! I am so excited about this and feel like God is calling me to continue to pour into these college students! I am so thankful to be able to join God in His work on campus for another year! Saying this, I will be starting back up fundraising soon and will be contacting each of yo

 Hey friends! Praying this first month of 2024 was incredible for you! God is already doing so much here and we barely hit February.  The beginning of 2024 just got here a month ago and we are already back into the groove of things! Just looking forward to what God is going to do this semester! This month alone we have already had our Winter Staff Retreat, Winter Retreat with our students and are quickly approaching things like Family Night! Even in the business of starting again, God has just been reminding me of the peace and stillness we get from simply sitting in His presence. God has been showing His sweet love for me in the midst of the chaos and what a blessing that has been!  Like I mentioned above, we had our Winter Retreat this past month! It is a 4 day long retreat where students from all of the campuses we are on come together and learn about Jesus as one big community! We had an incredible speaker, Dr.lee, come all the way from California and speak on Disruptive Grace. His

 Hey friends! I hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! God has done so much in my life this past year and I can not wait to see what He does this year!  One semester of the Apprenticeship down, one semester to go! What a joy it has been and this past month was no different!  This past semester was filled with friendship, fun, self reflection and crazy growth! God has shaped me so much and I can not wait to see how He continues to do so. He has placed so many people in my life that has challenged me and showed me Jesus through their care for me. Some of these people are my fellow apprentices! They have been such lights to me and I truly feel as though I have gained 9 new siblings through this journey. Here is a picture of us from our FOCUS Staff Christmas Party!  God has also been revealing to me the importance of serving the community He has placed us in! One of our students, Rachel (photographed above), got me plugged into a ministry called Exodus. Exodus serves previous