Jon and Laurie Irons

  Despite what your political views may be at this current situation, the CRISIS at the Southern Borders of Texas, Arizona and California needs the help of many volunteers at this point.  The Mission agency I am affiliated with Youth With A Mission-Tyler, TX. is working along side churches and ministries already working on both sides of the USA/Mexican border. We are coordinating needed supplies and volunteers who are willing to go for 4 day outreaches to the border for the next three to six months.  If you or your church are available to help please email Goborder@ywamtyler.org for more information. To get more information on how you be involved directly with  Hope at the Border you can click on this link.

What does Freshman English look like half way around the world? We will miss these wonderful students,  as this was our last group class for the semester. We hope that some of them will take the offer for possible summer sessions on a smaller class setting or possible one on one sessions. Pray for these future International leaders.  Pray also for them as they take their final exams next week.

  In preparing our young staff who have joined us for a commitment of long term service, we are blessed with the gifts and talents of these whom the Lord has brought to our campus. Leadership is our main theme, with areas of growth to prepare them for a life of bringing the Gospel to others. Whether they are here helping to lead a department on our campus, discipling future students or across the ocean living among the lost, our goal is to help them be prepared to love the Lord, and those He leads them to reach and serve.  After our students have attended a year of training at our campus here in East Texas, we want to help transition them from being students to learning to become effective staff and prepared  missionaries.  Laurie and I along with a team of other like-minded staff have been meeting once a week to impart useful tools to assist them on their journey  and develop a lifestyle of mission mindedness.