Gracepoint Fellowship Church @ Magic Mountain!

We're kicking off the summer with a trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Monday 6/8 for the entire college department!

We're lined up to get an incredible group rate ($18.50/person) and maybe our own private all-you-can-eat lunch with cartoon characters leading games for us! Tweety says: That's incwedible!

So please sign up by Friday, 5/22 even if you're not sure you can go. We just need an estimate. If you're up here, let's caravan down to SoCal together!

Intentional Summer Break

Hey everyone, here's a great article from Boundless (a good Christian webzine and blog) called Intentional Summer Break, with great tips about how to stay spiritually sharp during the long, lazy days of summer. Let's be challenged to approach this summer with faith and spiritual intentionality rather than wasting it by sleeping, bored loitering, or worse!

Good luck on your finals everyone.

http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0002045.cfm

Gracepoint Live is still alive

The first is a video the seniors made for their staff, spinning off the now-famous Gracepoint Live: Undo Intro Video. The second is one made by the frosh to their staff too. The frosh not only made this video out of their gratitude, it seems they were trying to create a new genre: Virus Video. Which is video that's so gross it'll make you sick. Watch at your own risk.

End of the Year @ Gracepoint Berkeley and Koinonia

It's the last day of school today. Everything's coming to a close, so we've had end-of-the-year gatherings galore as of late. We had a wonderful time last Friday getting together as all-Koinoina. Seniors shared what they learned from their 4 years, underclassman shared how the seniors touched their lives, and post-grads shared life wisdom with the soon-to-be-working (hopefully) grads. The running theme of their advice: build relationships and depend on others! The night was a picture of the close-knit community we have, as we're striving to love each other deeply. Here's the year-end video we showed. Praise God for everything He did this year!



Our GTS (Gracepoint Training School) classes also ended last Friday. I was in the SK1 class, and we got to reflect about the ways we grew in faith and boldness and the ways God addressed many of our struggles through the different lessons each week. Here's a picture from our class (thanks to Dave Park for these pics!)

In case you can't tell, that spells "SK1." Also, this past Sunday was the annual Senior Sunday at Gracepoint Fellowship Church. We got to hear moving testimonies from 6 seniors about the way God led them to our church, the struggles they persevered through, and the clear decisions they have made out of faith in God as they step into the exciting yet scary post-grad abyss!

We're so proud of them and are thankful to have been able to love them and receive love from them. Congratulations seniors!


You can find more pictures from Senior Sunday here and here.

Visit to Glen Brook Terrace

Last Sunday, a cozy group of us accompanied Gracepoint Berkeley's Elderly Care ministry (ECM) to visit Glen Brook Terrace. ECM goes to Glen Brook twice/month to hold a worship service for the residents. This is where Grandma Jaqi, the oldest member of Gracepoint, lives. She's been at our church since the very beginning and is known by all as a faithful prayer warrior.

We practiced at Dana House the night before some special songs with accompaniment by piano, violin, flute, guitar, and shaker! Then we learned how to worship with our whole body to the song "I Will Worship You." During the service, we taught the residents the motions, much to their delight. One lady said she hadn't moved like that in a long time. The residents were so attentive as Steve Choi gave a message (his first-ever) about the Samaritan Woman, about God's love and living water given to us to quench our deepest yearnings.

It was a wonderful time to share with the elderly, who were so appreciative of our presence. We're going back in July, so please join us if you couldn't this time! More pictures are available here.

Summer Schedule and Gracepoint MYT Trailer

This summer on Tuesdays we will have prayer meetings at 1st Pres Church. On Fridays, we'll have Gracepoint Fellowship Church's unique "Multiply Your Talents" courses also at 1st Pres, followed by combined Bible studies. Sign up for MYT and learn filming, Photoshop, or some other skill to help out with church-related projects in the Fall! Watch the cool trailer below, then pick a class.



Also, please remember to order a summer DT journal. Deadline for pre-orders is Wed, May 6. Pre-ordered journals will be available for pickup/purchase Sundays, May 10-June 21.