Course 101 - Starting next week

We're now offering Course 101 on Wednesday evenings (7-8:30pm, at the YWCA), starting next week. This course gives an intellectual basis for answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the Christian faith and addresses misconceptions about God, Jesus, and the Bible. Both those who have experience with Christianity and those just beginning to consider it will have the chance to explore how Christianity addresses questions about the meaning of life, our purpose, and the longings of our hearts.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about Christianity, starting with the basics. No prior knowledge about the subject is assumed.

Please sign up online if you're interested. You can preview Course 101 excerpts here.

College Missions Night!

This Friday (9/26), 7pm @ First Presbyterian Church (corner of Dana & Channing)

In lieu of normal bible study, join us to hear testimonies and watch videos/slideshows from fellow college students from acts2fellowship, Koinonia, and Kairos about their experiences this past summer going to places like Honduras, Taiwan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Cambodia!

A Divine Symphony @ Gracepoint Fellowship Church

This was part 2 of 3 videos we did for a message series called "Divine Symphony" at Gracepoint Fellowship Church awhile back. The messages were about God's plan for the church to be a beautiful collection of people who lose themselves as they collectively worship God and love one another, similar to how a marvelous symphony can only be produced when individual instruments faithfully play their distinct parts.

This video is meant to illustrate how absurd it is when one member of the church doesn't accept or embrace his/her important role and instead envies others. I'm posting it for your enjoyment as it stars our very own Sheri! (who, if you didn't know, is an excellent violinist when she's not acting...)

Koinonia Bible Study this Friday (9/19) &Gracepoint Fellowship Church service time change

Wow, this post title is long.....

Just a reminder that Bible Study is at 7pm at 155 Dwinelle this Friday. Afterwards, we're joining some other homegroups to go bowling! Please bring $10 to cover the cost of games/shoes.

If you're free for dinner on Friday, we'll grab food together at 5:30pm at the Durant Food Court (aka Asian Ghetto), then walk over and eat in the Dwinelle courtyard.

**Also, a reminder for those of you who come to Gracepoint Fellowship Church on Sundays, our service is now at 1:30pm, starting this Sunday.

We have dorm pick-ups from 1:00-1:15pm for Foothill/Stern/Bowles/Clark Kerr, and walk groups from 12:45-1:00pm for Units 1, 2, and 3. Details are here.

Barbeque this Wednesday (9/17) instead of Small Groups

Update: we're moving this to Alameda. We'll still meet at 6:30pm at Dana House and drive there together.

Hi all, we are postponing small group meetings this week. Instead, so that you can get to know the other guys/girls in our homegroup, we're having a good ol' fashioned barbeque!

It'll start 6:30pm this Wednesday at Dana House (2440 Dana St., between Haste & Dwight), which many of you are quite familiar with now as the hub of much of our group's activity.

Everyone's welcome and you can invite friends too, but please sign up online so we can prep the right amount of food. Hope to see you all there, as I haven't even met all of you personally yet. :)

The first sophomore small group meeting!

Yesterday was the first meeting this semester for the sophomore girls' small group! Now that most of them moved out of the dorms and have settled into apartments like real adults, we met at one of their places. We started off with a game called "this is not funny" where you have to say ridiculous lines and manage not to laugh. Of course, our resident 'laugher' Lindsey, who laughs at anything and everything, lost the game because she couldn't keep a straight face while reading, saying or listening to the lines. Actually, she was laughing at other people's lines even though the person who was saying them wasn't! So we punished her by making her
act like sizzling bacon in a pan (yes, you read that right). Then Sheri "the veteran bacon demonstrator" showed us what sizzling bacon is supposed to look like! (The video clips are available on Youtube – just kidding!) Anyway, after playing silly games, we reviewed last week's message at Gracepoint Fellowship Church on John 4 about the Samaritan Woman who sought after all the wrong things to fulfill her need to be loved unconditionally. We discussed what we do to put up masks to fulfill our thirst for love and how we often disguise and hide because we fear rejection. But my hope for our sophomore small group is that it will be a place where it's safe and honest without any pretense or disguise and all of them will experience God's unconditional love this coming semester.

What are you looking forward to most about small group? Leave a comment!

Freshman Angel Island Trip - Sat 9/27

Coming soon!

Freshman Angel Island Trip

Date: Saturday (9/27)

It's become a Freshman year tradition. You get to meet all the freshmen in Koinonia while trekking through one of the most scenic places around. Come with us, and we'll take a ferry ride to San Francisco, take an easy and beautiful hike with sweeping views of the Bay, and finish with a BBQ lunch afterwards, all with your friends. How's that sound? Check out the Angel Island webcam for a preview.

More information to follow, but please mark your calendars. A year from now, you won't wanna be the one missing in all the Angel Island trip pictures!

San Francisco Tour

Update 9/5 - Sorry, we'll have to postpone this trip to a later time. Hope you can join us then!

We're taking a short day trip to San Francisco this Saturday. After lunch on the wharf we'll hit some of the most famous sites in the city - Pier 39, Lombard St., and of course the awesome Golden Gate Bridge.

If you haven't seen SF yet, you'll want to do so before the crush of papers and midterms! (And while the weather is still sunny and clear)

Please sign up online so we can plan for rides. See you soon.

Small Group Kickoffs this Week!

Hey everyone! Now that the dust from the two Welcome Nights has settled, some of you are asking, how can I get plugged into Koinonia? That's where small groups come in.

What's a small group? It's a weekly meeting where we enjoy homecooked meals, share stories, get to know others, discuss topics relevant to Christianity (or just life), explore a tough intellectual question or two, commiserate about our midterms, and of course, have a lot of fun.

Join us for our kickoff sessions this week to meet other students and find out what kinds of small groups we're having this semester. Anyone not currently in a small group is welcome. And you don't need to be a Christian to join.

• The guys will be meeting this Thursday, 6:30pm at Sun Hong Kong/Kip's (they're 2 restaurants in one!). It's on 2439 Durant Ave., next to Yogurt Park, across from Unit 3. There'll be free pizza too!
  


• The girls will also be meeting Thursday, 7pm at 258 Dwinelle, starting with a homecooked dinner.

In case you missed it, here's the cool small groups video we showed last week.