Bailey Crawford's Ministry Blog

 Hi everyone! Hope you had a great March, and are starting to plan some good fun things for April.  If you have a chance, please text me or leave a comment with how I can be praying for you.  Spring Break   Some of my friends and I over spring break! We took a quick weekend trip to Austin. From L to R: Me, Becca, Sophie, Claire, and Jessica!  My peer team leader, coworker, neighbor, and just amazing friend Emily! We went and visited her grandmother in Bonham again. If you look close enough you will see our matching sweaters :)  Core We did a PowerPoint core where each of the girls could bring a PowerPoint on a book of the Bible, a Christian topic they had question over, or really anything in regards to Faith. Here is Kyndal presenting over Jonah, some of the other girls chose names of God, will we have free will in Heaven, and Esther. It was so neat!  My core at TCC put on a worship night! It was challenging to get a space, to get people there, bu...

 Hope everyone is doing well and that they have had a good February! I am excited to share some fun moments from this past month with you guys. We got to have a super cool event that honored Black History, got to have a worship night about God's love for us, and my birthday was this month! It was a fun filled 28 days!  Proud of our students  One of our students Anna Melton gave a Ted Talk this month on motivation, and what motivates us. It was so cool that she as a Sophomore was able to present at this conference. Some of us girls went and supported her doing this!  RELEASE     A pastor with UTD has formed this internal group with FOCUS called B.L.I.S.S, which stands for Black Lives in Soulful Solidarity. This month B.L.I.S.S put on a show called RELEASE in honor of black history month, there was a Kickin Brass Band from New Orleans, some students who sang the Negro National Anthem which I had never heard of! It was a free event and was a total packed ...

 Hi friends and family! Hope you are staying warm if you live in the DFW area as everything is covered with ice and snow. This past month was filled with lots of fun and exciting moments with our students that I am so excited to share with you.  We have also started back at school a couple weeks ago, and it has been so busy and so fun! Winter Retreat  These are some pics with the UTA girls and our whole group at the bottom right. All of the UTA girls stayed in one cabin together and when we got in the cabin it felt like a family reunion. Also that is my friends baby, and I love him. He and I also got  a picture together at Winter Retreat together last year.  This is my TCC core! Arisa and I are in matching shirts! She and I study FOJ together and she is so neat. Then in the Gazebo is some of the guys in our core. The bigger group picture is the whole of TCC between NE and SE campuses. It is such a neat thing because we just planted those campuses LAST YEAR....

Happy New Year! I hope you all had great holidays and got to spend some good time with friends and family. I got some Christmas Cards from you all and they are so sweet. I have them on my fridge still! December is kind of slow ministry wise, but I have some sweet updates on students and our staff!  Christmas Moments We had a staff Christmas dinner and the top left photo is of our entire staff. We have grown so much! Then the bottom left is everyone who did the apprenticeship with me last year who stayed on staff. It is such a joy to work with everyone!  Proud Moments Two of my closest friends graduated. Caroline graduated with a degree in Biology and Jessica graduated with a degree in Elementary Ed. The four of us on the left met our freshman year in college and have been friends for 7 years. We have been apart of this ministry all together. It is such a neat thing to me, and something I want other girls to experience!    Sweet Moments Over Break  Getting to pla...

 Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well, and have been enjoying these beautiful fall trees! I recently read an article my mom posted on Facebook, that was saying the trees are more vibrant this season because of the immense amount of rainfall we received at the end of August. I think that is so neat the way God created nature to do things that way, and I am so grateful because of it. I have loved driving around Arlington lately and seeing all the many different colors! These are the updates from this past month, thank you so much for how generous you guys are to support me and our students in ministry.  Keep FOCUS Growing  WOW! We were able to reach our goal! That is only because of the generosity of people like you who have caught the vision of college ministry. I am so thankful for you all!  Thanksgiving My dream since I was 8 years old was to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and I finally got to go this year with my dad, brother, and sister in law! It was so...

 Happy Fall guys! I am so grateful for you all and for this season of gratitude. Thanksgiving is right around the corner which is for sure my favorite holiday, I love the parade and just getting to be around family. I also enjoyed the spooky season we just went through, and getting to dress up! Let me show you all what are students have been up to.  Reminders!  If you sent in your donation by mailing a check this summer and it has already been processed can you please double check the endorsement. Over the summer we had  a situation with someone who stole some checks out of our mailbox, we have since set up a PO Box and are putting even more security in place. If you gave a check from May - July and believe it to be cashed, or think it was maybe stolen please message me so that we can talk through the solution so you can get that money back. All banks should be insured through the FDIC which should protect you in this case.  I do need you to contact me or contac...

  Hi friends and family! Hope you guys are doing well and enjoying the cooler weather. I am excited for all the leaves to start changing color here in Arlington. Thank you so much for your prayers as this month was an exciting one!  Fall Camp  Every year our students go to a camp overnight and they spend time playing games with each other, learning more about Jesus, and just getting to build deeper friendship. Here are some highlights from the weekend!  This is a reel from our social media account with highlights from the weekend.  Our group picture, we had about 85-90 students total attend  Core Updates This is my core at UTA from Fall Camp, they are awesome! We are missing a couple girls here in the picture. I love how much they are seeking after Jesus, they are so funny, and they just are such sweet friends. On the right is my core at TCC! This is so so exciting because we just planted last year at TCC SE. This is just some of the people in our core this...