Spooky Scary Skeletons

Where has the time gone? The year's almost over! I was talking to a friend the other day and told him about last Christmas that happened 'a few months ago'... before realizing that Christmas was more than just a few months ago and this coming Christmas is only a few months out. 😅

Personal Updates:

An update on my MRI results! Everything came back.. normal! Thank you all again for your prayers, for your care and concern, texts and well wishes. It truly means the world to me! With that chapter closing, I can get back to trying to be as healthy as I can be. But this also means that anytime I do something dumb or forget.. that's just me.. no excuses (like when I thought Christmas was only a few months ago.)

Right on time, I've finished the entire Old Testament! What a journey it has been. Far from being an Old Testament scholar, nonetheless, I feel infinitely more equipped in tackling harder questions regarding the goodness of God as represented in the Old Testament.

Ministry Updates:

We're preparing for our annual fundraiser, Keep FOCUS Growing. While our campus ministers raise their own support, that doesn’t provide money for evangelistic events and materials, administrative costs, or money to seize new opportunities that come up during the year. The extra investments from our annual fundraiser make sure we are poised and ready for what God is doing on campuses around the DFW area. $42,000 in matched funds are on the line for Giving Tuesday, Dec 1st. So if you're interested, please connect with us on Facebook here to stay tuned for the big day!

If you would, please pray about the following:

- That God will continue to provide for our community and ministry in this unusual year. That people will be led to contribute to allow FOCUS to keep growing and be able to reach out to students in need of a Jesus-loving community.

- That God will heal our nation's divisions. That God will use us, the church, to be a city on a hill to represent His good character through us loving our neighbors.

Here is the 64 oz water bottle I bought to ensure that I'm drinking enough water everyday! 64 oz is the (controversial?) daily recommended amount of water needed to be healthy.. I still struggle to drink it in a day, but I'm making an effort! Thanks to JoAnn and her concern for my health which led me to buy it. I'm trying!!

Here is an action shot of Brandon teaching our Old Testament class. That's all.

After we finished our Old Testament class, we had a Q&A session with Iain Provan (bottom left) from Regent College. He teaches the Old Testament Foundations class that we listened along to while we read the Bible. His knowledge and understanding of the Old Testament is seriously out of this world!

This is our Jesus and Me (JaM) class that I help out in for grade schoolers at Northeast Church. They have been such great listeners, braving the colder weather and keeping their masks on in order to learn more about God every Sunday!