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This is our favorite time of the year! The music, the lights, and the sense of celebration always lift our spirits. And people like hanging out with each other, talking and sharing, and also reflecting back on the year behind and the one ahead. It is a great time to connect with friends we love.

We know that during this time we all think about serving others and the Lord through giving in different ways. ISI in the DFW area is in a special time right now. God is doing amazing stuff and we feel that God has put us smack dab in the middle of it. In the last year God has started two huge new ministry opportunities that allow us to touch the world more effectively for Christ through internationals students. We invite you to consider being a part of one of these giving opportunities and projects.

Three opportunities to give where God is working (click on the following to learn more):

1. We need your regular help to allow us to be a catalyst for to serving international students! – Backing up God’s Call
2. Do you ever get goose-bumps when God works so clearly and immediately? We do! – UTD Ministry House Project
3. Special people God is using in special ways with South Asians – ISI Midwest Aradhna Concert Tour

1.We need your regular help to allow us to be a catalyst for serving international students! – Backing Up God’s Call

As you have seen in the last year through our newsletter and blog, God has been doing amazing things in and through our family & ministry. Many of you have been partners with our family & ministry and have been praying and tracking what has been going on for years. You know that this is an unprecedented time. God has brought many international friends to our weekly Friday gathering. So much so that we have had to divide up in to two groups. Many of these students have asked and so we have been able to start many Discovery Bible Study groups and Passing Truths On (PTO) disciplemaker making groups to help students meet and walk more closely with Jesus.

Our team is at ground zero where God is teaching us revolutionary ways to touch international students  through new strategies and concepts that have the potential of many students being cultivated as leaders who will perhaps become multiplying ministry planters back home – taking what they learn here and applying it. The rumblings of God’s movement through students are beginning to be felt. As we saw in our Asia trip, our dear student friends are starting groups in their home country to disciple other who can start groups to disciple others. Imagine the impact if this continues.

So many wonderful things, yet, at the same time, we all know that times are tough for individuals and organizations which depend upon donations, and we are no exception. As you know we have been faithful in the work of the ministry – praying and reaching out, and mobilizing volunteers to do the same. But we cannot continue without help from people who care, who love seeing God at work, and who love partnering with God in what he is doing—people like YOU! You make it possible for us to be the catalysts for movements of God, empowering people like you to touch students’ lives.

We have been receiving anywhere from $200 to $800 less than our monthly budget many months this year. Just doing the math you can see that we have had a considerable shortfall and our formerly considerable reserves are depleted. Won’t you help us to make this up by sending a tax deductible  gift through our ministry fund (you can give online here) to help us make up the shortfall throughout the year? These gifts are Roy’s sole source of income and we have been living and doing ministry in deficit. We believe in God’s call for us and in His promise of provision and so it is vitally important that you all, who believe in what we do, join us and perhaps be the means of His provision. We also need additional monthly donors who will stand in the gap and make up for our lost monthly givers. So again prayerfully see if you are called by God to use this link to make a gift which will continue to keep us on the front lines!

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2. Do you ever get goose-bumps when God works so clearly and immediately? We do! – UTD Ministry House Project
At the Dallas-Ft.Worth ISI annual planning retreat, the Lord led us to focus on the critical need for 20-something year old interns to reach out to the international students at UT-Dallas. We had to face the fact some 20-something

year old international students like being around 20-something year old Americans and the trend is towards a larger number of 20-somethings coming! In planning HOW to recruit such interns, we were led by the Lord to pray for a home within walking distance of the UT-Dallas campus where the interns could live (paying only utilities). These interns would be students also—strong Christians—who could devote 15 hours per week to outreach to internationals. They would probably be Dallas Theological Seminary students or UT-Dallas grad students. BUT THE IDEA OF A HOUSE THAT NEAR CAMPUS SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE!

But the God who led us to pray for the impossible specializes in doing the impossible! JUST ONE WEEK LATER, the UT-Dallas ISI Campus Director was contacted by an old church friend who wanted to see if ISI could use his house near campus. His renters has trashed it, and he was prompted by the Lord to see if the Lord wanted to use it for ministry. He did not want to sell the house, but could see how its proximity to the UT-Dallas campus could benefit our ministry there!

We prayed, and the Lord made clear this was from him! GOOSE-BUMPS! We have a multi-year agreement with the owner to use the house, and we are responsible for fixing it up and maintaining it while the interns live there and minister through it.

We need your help with the costs of fixing it up—estimated at $4,850! We have guys from two churches who will do the labor along with local ISI staff, but we need your help with the cost of paint and materials to get the house back in shape for living in and for ministry.

Doesn’t it sound like the Lord to use disastrous renters, a Christian home owner, a local ministry in need, church guys with fix-up skills, ISI staff, and YOU to partner to make ministry happen?! The Lord led us to ask him for the impossible; we listened-obeyed and he worked mightily; and now we need you to be a part of the team. Will you join us in seeing God at work through his people?! Please click on this link and see how you can give towards this project.

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3. Special people God is using in special ways! – ISI Midwest Aradhna Concert Tour

Two years ago some 500 Asian Indian and Nepali international students in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area attended four concerts by the Christian worship team Aradhna. The members of Aradhna are former missionary kids in India/Nepal who learned the language, love the culture, and use their musical gifts to worship the Lord by writing and playing music in the cultural traditions and styles of India and Nepal. Go to www.aradhnamusic.com and click on sample tracks. You can also read the words of the music. You can see that they honor God with their words but also by their professional and yet soulful sound.

The South Asian Indian and Nepali international students love this music. But more importantly, the guys playing it are doing so in the power of the Lord. We had prayer teams on their knees, and what happened in the concerts was powerful spiritually! The Lord inhabits the praise of his people, and these were worship concerts attended and loved by hundreds of non-believing and secular students who witnessed God at work!

Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. ~ Psalm 108:2-3Psalm 108:2-3
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2 I will start playing my harps before the sun rises. ³ I will praise you, Lord, for everyone to hear; I will sing hymns to you in every nation.

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Aradhna has responded to our invitation and made room in their tour schedule for another visit to the Dallas-Ft.Worth area campuses (as well as campuses in Wichita KS and Colorado Springs, CO where ISI is ministering). Again, we need your partnership to make this special ministry by very special people happen! Aradhna only asks for their travel expenses, concert expenses, and a small honorarium, but for five concerts in our city that amounts to $4,500. Could you help us make this a reality? We have staff and volunteers ready to follow-up Indian and Nepali students who attend. This could be the start of many significant relationships. Please use this link to help with this outreach project.

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In closing…

This is shaping up to be a wonderful year of seeing the Lord at work! We just took more than 100 international students to tour NASA and had incredible conversations about spiritual issues while there and on the way back. Something about space and the vastness of the universe which turns our thoughts to the idea of a Creator! Follow-up from a fun event like this is so easy and natural!

Blessings on you and your extended family for the celebration of Christ’s birth! And let us know how we can pray for you as you interact with family and friends this holiday season. Sometimes it isn’t very easy!

Roy & Lisa and the Kids

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Tags: Aradhna, Asia Trip, Bible Study, DFW, Discovery Bible Study, gift, Give, Home, House, Passing Truths On, Prayer, provision, PTO, Serving, UTD

Wow your prayers were huge this week. The Tarrant County Space Weekend trip went well. Many of the Spiritual Warfare skirmishes were dealt with and God opened up some doors with students in surprising ways. Also, Lisa was on  fall break at her work and we had a lot of time together. Praise the Lord.

• The Houston trip went very well. All 80 people safely went down to and got back from Houston in 15+ vehicles. The students had a terrific time. Many of them shared with me this week that it was the best time they’ve had in a long time. Some even said it was the best time they’ve had since they came to the USA. Some went into a church building for the first time in their lives. We had some HUGE conversations about deep things during the rides up and down. I got to know a young man from Armenia very well and talked about heart related things. What a blessing.
• Many of the Spiritual Warfare problems evaporated after we and you all started to pray. Some of the broken relationships need a little bit more healing and I am learning how to trust God through all of this and more importantly, how important you all are in what we do. WE ALL ARE BREAKING DOWN STRONGHOLDS. Without prayer we can’t do what we do.
• My car is back on the road and working well enough to take us to Houston.

Tags: Houston, ISI, Prayer, rides, Space Weekend, Spiritual Warfare, Student, TCU, trip, UTA, warfare

We leave for Houston at 6:30 AM Saturday morning taking over 70 international students from Tarrant County to visit NASA, to stay at homes, visit churches and enjoy great times together. I am writing this at 12:30 Saturday morning and so I want to keep this short.

I wanted to make sure I got this out because there have been small hints lately of some spiritual attacks going on. Relationship problems within teams… passive aggressive behavior…people being easily irritated… feeling overwhelmed over things that God controls… a student close to the meeting Jesus getting in trouble with another ministry… more resistance than ever by a small majority on this trip (but also a huge excitement by the majority. All this is clearly not from God AND all at once. God is in control but this is also the time to call in the spiritual prayer forces.

God is doing good stuff and I sense a real sense of community on this trip to Houston. I believe God will do stuff but so with the enemy to disrupt it. Please pray for…

• Safety on the trip for all (80+ total people including volunteers and students)
• Good Holy Spirit driven attitudes by all the team and host families with each other and with the students. Good attitudes of the students.
• The unearthing of people of peace in the time together
• Open hearts for the students who have been chosen to come.
• Safetly and encouragement for Lisa and the kids back home and patience to weather this very busy time.
• Good host families who really love on the students and share the love of Jesus at the students’ pace.
• Some student who are real close to have good conversations with the people they are with both in the cars but also in the homes and at NASA.

Thanks all. Appreciate your praying as you receive this because we probably are on the road as you read…

Tags: Houston, ISI, NASA, Prayer, trip, volunteers

The Big Howdy begins (www.utabighowdy.com) as we students are getting picked up from the airport by the Big Howdy team of volunteers, churches and ministries, others have been shuttled to Walmart. Some will be given a warm welcome at orientation, others will receive furniture and other things from the student Garage sale, most will enjoy as big Texas welcome at the Big Howdy Party and finally some will receive a custom tour of the DFW area by local volunteers. The Big Howdy is a month of welcoming goodness for the new international students, where Jesus following volunteers can make a lot of noise for Him and hopefully some people of peace will reveal themselves. Even if not, God will use it to start working to touch their hearts. Here are some quick things to pray for.

Lisa started her new job at DBU. After around 10 years at the same school this is quite the change. She is excited that she can overtly make a lot of noise for Jesus and share her heart as she teached English to her new students.

Our family continues to meet for Discovery Bible study with another family, our dear friends from Tajikistan. Wednesday was the husband, Alex’s birthday but the Alex and Maria  insisted that we did Bible Discovery group before we celebrated with Alex for dinner. Praise the Lord for their excitement over studying together. Pray that as Wednesday church and other things start up again, we can find a day of the week that works for everyone to meet.

Continue to pray for UTA Friday night group(www.utaisi.org) as we transition to two separate locations at around the same time. This is not easy, to see our awesome and close team work in two groups but it seems necessary. Pray for discernment as we decide who goes with who in the two groups both with volunteers but also student leaders. And pray that the students take to one or other of the groups and don’t get lost in the wash.

Many students are going home after the summer long term. One student shared on Friday that she was “concerned” when she came here and was worried about not having anyone here. She shared she never would have thought that she would have found a place that felt like family like the Friday night group was to her.

Tags: Big Howdy, Friday Night, Prayer

This was a difficult week on many fronts for us. There have been many challenges for us and many of those around us: family, friends, co-workers, etc. I have been told that often when one undertakes a spiritual challenge like a prayer emphasis on a campus or trying to spark a spiritual movement in a little reached group, there will be difficulties and challenges. But God placed the passage where Jesus calmed the storm after being sacked out in the back of the boat to remind us that He is in control of all of that and we can be safe even in the midst of storms. I was also challenged by John 15 about the importance of abiding in Christ.

. Chinese class is going well with Wilson.

. It looks like we will be able to visit Charis’ orphanage while in China.

. John was accepted on the Academic Decathlon team and Tim started Boy Scouts last week.

. For those of you who have been praying for Micah Ahern, it was looking bleak last week but this week was very interesting. The test results have been inconclusive which is not at all what was expected. They have decided to monitor him for the time being. You can keep on what is going on at their new blog, ht http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/micahahern/journal http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/micahahern.

. Roy was able to meet with Vritant who is a good friend that he has been able to get to know since the Houston trip. We watched the World Cricket cup championship and hung out at his lab.

. Huge need here. Pray for one of our colleagues as he faces a very significant health challenge. More details to come. Still it was difficult for our team and several of us will need to step up to help take up the slack to help him to focus on healing. Pray for him and his family. Pray also for our team to come around the situation and really be the family that it is.

. There was another earthquake in the area around where my family is. All are well but pray for continued safety and provision for their needs. Pray also that things will clear up by the summer so that we can go and visit them and hopefully minister to them. Pray also for wisdom on if we should go (we a sensing a calling to do so right now as part of our Asia trip and we already have tickets) and pray for how we should go and where in Japan.

. Pray for continued preparation for the Asia trip. HUGE amount of work.

Tags: Earthquake, email, Prayer, Ron, Vritant

It has been a while since my last post. There have been many very time consuming projects afoot. Anyway, I wanted to post some things that have been on my heart but I haven’t had time to post. I am going to bring in some tidbits from our most recent prayer letter that share what is on my heart right now…

In many ways this has all the indications of being a very emotionally draining week for me and my family. So many difficult things happened (see Prayer needs below). There were some sleepless nights and lots more prayer than usual. Still, God is here and working and for that I am truly grateful. We have lots of huge prayer requests this week. Please pray specially. The next couple of weeks will feel difficult and the effects of the last couple of weeks will start to be felt.

Praises

• God gave our DFW team a wonderful, wonderful retreat. We looked at a new strategy for ministry for the DFW area that incorporates what we already do but looks to expand on it using a new paradigm. We will need some prayer warriors if this will work, but if it does, it could be really special. Let me know if you are interested in praying specifically for this for the next year in a concentrated way.
• I have been really blessed by seeing how my kids have been getting along at this point of the summer. I will miss the special times together working at home with them here when the summer is over.
• We had a wonderful banquet for the Chinese EMBA students at UTA where they got to hear from a wonderful Christian business man who spoke at their level and also they connected well with their friendship partners.

Prayer Needs

• Many of you have been praying for the Chinese student, N, who police are looking for as she has been missing since Saturday. There is no new news to report. Please keep on praying for wisdom on the part of the police and that she will be found one way or another.
• My grandfather in Japan passed away today. I did not know him too well as he was always so far but I do know he was a very special man who was a huge influence for my mother. I’ll never forget his wonderful laugh, his constant smile and his deep but simple wisdom. I just wish I could have gotten to know him better. I don’t believe he ever knew the Lord. That saddens my heart.
• My oldest son turns 13 this week. I can’t believe that that little boy who was little more than one year old when we came to Texas is going to be a teenager. In many ways I am so proud of him and yet I feel compelled to pray for him and all the kids every day. There is so little we control and so much we depend on God’s grace.
• We began our “Politics, international relations and religion” discussion group at Starbucks on Wednesdays two weeks ago. The first one had one Italian student. This week we doubled our attendance with the Italian student, an Iranian couple and myself. Please pray for good conversations about worldviews and stuff eventually opening up discussion about Jesus.
• We are winding down our summer groups and getting ready for the craziest month of every year when we welcome new students. At UTA alone there are over 600 new international students coming and we meet most of them in this busy month.
• Pray for wisdom on some financial and priorities things we need to decide on for the city ministry soon.

Tags: Big Howdy, Birthday, discussion group, Grandfather, international relations, Japan, Loss, missing, paradigm, police, politics, Praise, Prayer, Staff retreat, Strategy, Teenager

I’m am waiting at the airport after an incredible 5 days in California. One of the special part of our ministry is our interaction with the people, churches and organizations that make what we do possible though their time, prayers and financial gifts. We can’t do it without them. One of many favorite supporters is Calvary Church of Santa Ana, one of the churches we consider home around the country.
While Calvary is one of our most faithful supporters in prayer and financially, it is how they take care of us personally that is most special. They have their children regularly correspond with our kids, we get birthday cards, they regularly send building and support teams to different fields.
This week underscores their care for us.

Every year the church has a 2 week missions conference. This is fairly common. What makes it special is that during that time all the missionaries are treated to a three day retreat with all the missionaries present.

From the general director of a mission agency to the young campus minister all are lavished with the same care and sense of special value by MOST of the staff and pastors. These are busy guys and yet they take the time to listen and care. It is incredibly fun and by the end we have gotten to know some incredible people, have prayed, cried, learned about the going on of the church, etc.

The missionaries there are truly incredible and have done amazing things with the Lord. Pioneering Christian presence in new countries, saving countless lives, helping headhunters adjust to a new world, leading missions organizations with thousands of ministers. Yikes! Still we all have many things in common and the same Lord who makes it all this possible.

And to know there are literally hundreds of people praying for you and caring for you. It’s hard to keep a dry eye.

Tags: calvary, church, Prayer

One of our dear student friends, Ken finally said yes. We were looking high and low for someone to watch our house while we take a 18 day 4000 mile road trip to California to visit friends, family, supporters, churches,  see some world class sights with our kids, etc. the next couple of weeks. For those of your who want to pray for us on this trip, we made a special “drop.io” blog site (at http://drop.io/YabukiCalTrip.  You can subscribe to an e-mail/RSS/podcast/etc. there.) where it is easy to journal our trip with pictures, notes, & audio files, etc.. On the right of this Yabukibreeze blog we have a box with the RSS update notices from that trip log. Also, here is the schedule so you can plan for our days… Please pray for safety, patience, a good holiday, good experiences, growing love for our family, good re-connections with friends and family, etc. Sadly, we won’t be able to visit all of you all given the tight schedule because of the transit times, family times during the holidays and all, but we are excited about seeing some of you all!

Tags: California, holiday, Prayer, travel

Last Monday seemed like a bleak day. We were gathered for our monthly ISI DFW Staff meeting. Usually a good thing. But on this particular Monday, several things were weighing heavily over us. Little did we know that God was going to use this to grow our faith…

Our colleague Derrah, spend the last couple of weeks struggling with a medical situation with his mother Polly. This normally vigorous nonagenarian recently fell on a outing with her Sunday school class and then later again at the ER. This was very uncharacteristic of her. The result was a couple of hematomas in her head. Then they found out that the reason she fell was that she had a couple of silent heart attacks in weeks previous and a part of her heart and lungs were failing. Fearing a stroke because of the hematomas the doctors did not want to do surgery but her body had other ideas. She began to suffer from dizziness and disorientation. They couldn’t figure out what was going on. Bounced from the internist to the neurosurgeon to the cardiologist, it was looking bad and she was getting progressively worse. Some said seizures, others, pressure from the hematomas. About the only things they “could” do was surgery to relieve the pressure. Surgery seemed out of the question… She would not likely survive it. But, by last Monday, she was determined to have surgery to relieve the pressure. Whether it was successful or not, it would be a win for her… to be with the Lord or to “hopefully” get her functions back. So on Monday, we were praying for Derrah to have courage and wisdom to do the hard but right things in the spirit of her wishes.

At the same time, our colleague, Ministry rep, Pat Bradley had struggled through some things too. Earlier in the week she had heard from her doctors that they would not treat a condition that caused her constant pain because there was nothing left that they could do. She felt the need for prayer from elders. One of the other staff shared both of these needs with me and we decided to devote much of our meeting to praying for her and Derrah’s situation.

Be began by praying for Derrah, and then we prayed over and for Pat at our meeting. It was very intense. In addition, we have had our network of prayer warriors on both of these prayer needs for several weeks now. It was clear God was there. His presence was palpable and it was exciting. But at the end of the meeting, Pat got a call and we found out that her also nonagenarian father had a stroke. Oh man… we let her go and prayed over lunch for her. On Thursday, both situations came to a climax and we just happened to have our staff Christmas party. Neither families were there. While we had fun a the parties, we were all aware of the life or death situations going on in the lives of two of our compatriots… We prayed then too…

Then… we began to see God work… at the end of the party, we got a text message from Derrah saying Polly made it through surgery… Then we started hearing reports that she was progressing quickly. Pat shared with Derrah that since the prayer, her pain was much reduced. Wow… what was going on? God answering prayers the way we asked… in His will? Pat’s dad, while still very bad, was walking and stuff… she was able to be his advocate… By this Monday, the storm clouds, while still present, seem to have dissipated much in energy. Things are better… and God not only answered ours but your all’s prayers!!! Below is an e-mail sent by Derrah…

Dear Friends and Family,

God continues to answer prayer in unbelievable ways concerning my 90-year old mom (Polly Jackson). Tonight she came home with us—discharged from ICU to HOME! Five days ago a surgeon drilled two nickel-sized holes into her skull to relieve pressure to two large subdural hematomas. For the five days before that she could not speak three words together, remember anything, walk, or use her right hand… and more than one MD was ready to write her off at that point as incurable with brain damage and to send her to a nursing home to die! The hospital social worker met with me to arrange it. But God has other ideas…

Despite not having walked for 10 days, today she got out of bed at the Physical Therapist’s request and walked the equivalent of one city block unaided except by her walker. She took care of her own toilet needs, needed no more nursing care on her two head incisions, and was stable on all her meds and vital signs… so they let her come home! One nurse in ICU told us that instead of four DAYS, most folks who had what she had spent four WEEKS in ICU.

The hospital was full and there was no bed for her on regular nursing floors. Since she no longer needed ICU, and I asked the MDs what prevented her from coming home. They shrugged their shoulders, and I said, *Let’s make it happen.* And they did! So at 6:00 p.m. this evening, we drove mom home… by God’s love and grace… and in answer to your faithful prayers! The unbelievable happened. Her neurosurgeon was amazed!

How can we say THANKS sufficiently to you for your prayers and TLC? Simply give us the privilege of praying like that for YOU and your needs!

Below is a pic of mom taken tonight. Pam gave mom a pink cap a friend had given Pam recently to cover mom’s shaved head and keep it warm. Mom said, *I always wanted to be able to wear a ballcap!* [One of the reasons she made it to 90 may be that kind of positive attitude in the face of adversity!]

Derrah (for Pam and Mom too!)

Tags: Illness, Praise, Prayer

February, 2007

Dear Ministry Partner,

What has God been doing in your life during the first 2 months of 2007? It has been a challenging time for us, and yet the Father’s care is constant and His blessings abundant. Following are a couple examples of what’s been happening with ISI in Dallas/Fort Worth.

Spring Howdy

As the Spring Semester came along, ISI, its partner ministries and volunteers worked together to help the many new students arriving at UTA. This culminated in the Spring Howdy Party where over 200 students from 22 countries got together to celebrate the beginning of spring semester with line dancing and great food donated by local churches and businesses.

In December and January, Roy got calls from some of the student organizations on campus because they were short handed in picking up students from the airport. Roy was able to mobilized friends, ministry partners and volunteers to help with very short notice.

Students Learn About Their Calling – Urbana Missions Conference

I (Lisa) have fond memories of my first Urbana experience in 2003, so I was excited about participating again this year. Altogether 30 of us from the Dallas/Fort Worth area, including ISI staff, volunteers and students loaded up in 2 church vans and 2 individual cars to make the 11-hour drive to St. Louis. This year the theme was “I Have a Calling.”

We were challenged from the book of Ephesians to see how God poured out His grace on us so that we could bring glory to Him through our lives. Different ones of our students were touched in different ways. Sam was challenged to pray for others and for the world, realizing that prayer is more than just asking God to bless us. Mari talked with reps from different missions organizations trying to see where God’s plan for her might be when she finishes school. Yoko, a recent graduate, made preliminary applications with a couple missions organizations. Irena participated in the HIV/AIDS track to learn more about how to minister to people with this devastating disease. All of us enjoyed the powerful worship.

There’s something electrifying about praising God with 22,000h 22,000
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Thanks to the many churches and individuals who helped make the Urbana scholarships possible. Altogether we were able to give 17 scholarships or partial scholarships. Urbana is only 5 days, but it is powerful and life-changing. Your investment will bear fruit in eternity!

Prayer Needs

• The transition of the day to day ministry at UTA from Roy to Ron Bunyard. This will enable Roy to focus more on his City Director responsibilities.
• God’s perspective in dealing with electronics that all seem to be breaking down at the same time (frustrating—we need patience to deal with this!)
• Roy’s work to get ISI recognized as an official organization at TCU (Texas Christian University).
• Good teamwork with the students planning the Spring Break retreat. Wisdom for Roy as their coach.
• Health for the family—T-6 and C-4 have had the flu recently!
• Revitalization of Friday night Bible study. The current group is not showing much spiritual interest.
• Wisdom for Lisa in dealing with a relationship problem with one of our students.
• Adequate monthly income to meet our needs.

Blessings

• Great time with our new Chinese friend Mr. Sun at the Maverick’s game.
• Fantastic Houston trip last weekend hosted by ISI staff in Houston. Seven UTA students participated.
• Jonathan will be getting his Arrow of Light (highest recognition in Cub Scouts) on Feb. 17.
• Two recent large donations to help us make up last year’s deficit.
• YOU. Yes, you are a blessing to us, more than you know. Every time you bring this ministry before the Father, you bless us in tremendous ways, and breakthroughs happen.

Remember that you can learn more about our ministry or make tax-deductible donations by visiting www.yabukibreeze.org.

Partnering with you to reach the Nations,

Roy & Lisa

Tags: Praise, Prayer, Spring howdy, Urbana