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We’ll be having a Praise Night this week at Dave’s church in Oakland (CIBC). We’ll be providing rides. So be at 2601 Channing, apt 110 at 6:30pm. If you know you’re coming… please let someone on core know. Thanks!
Today we’ll be having our 3rd Large Group at 6:30pm in the Tilden Room (5th floor of ASUC). Come join us as we learn about creation!
Hello AACF,
Just thought I’d share some thoughts on our most current fad within the fellowship. As you can see by the title of this post, there has been an issue with all the chanting and the wooting. I notice that we now love to chant and woot to goad people on. But why are we doing this? What is the purpose? Why is it that we only partake in this when no one else is around? Should we not be ashamed of freely expressing ourselves?
For example, the other day, a particular someone in the fellowship, (I will refer to her as MicheMiche) started to chant very softly out in front of GBC. We were going to go and get some boba and Sun Hong Kong and I told him/her that I would pay for his/her drink if she would loudly chant “Sun Hong Kong” down Sproul. MicheMiche refused entirely and said that it simply “wasn’t worth it.” But how is it not worth it? We do it all the time within ourselves, but should we be silent in our personal expression?
I think not! In fact, we should outwardly show ourselves in our expression. We may be judged by others but who cares about what other people think, the only judgment that has any merit is the one we face from God. AND THINK! if we were to make a fool of ourselves in public, think of how such a good segway you could make that into a small instance of outreach, you can simply say “It’s something my fellowship has started to do for fun. I go to Asian American Christian Fellowship.” Think of how that is such a great conversation starter! People will flock to you, or at least talk about you from afar, but again, WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK!
Just a couple of cents.
And thanks to Alyssa and her awesome stories that spurred this all on.
- Justin
We’ll be meeting at Tan Oak of the ASUC (4th floor) at 6:30pm!
We had a wonderful weekend as we had our winter retreat at Santa Rosa. We had three wonderful speakers from Lauren’s church that came to speak on Ask, Seek, and Knock (Matthew 7:7-8).
We had an amazing time bonding with each other through endless hours of Nertz, MJ, and charades. But God really blessed the weekend as He drew us closer to Him and also to each other. It was a weekend filled with joy, fun, and even tears.
A HUGE thanks to Lauren and Andrea for planning retreat and Albert for heading up the cooking!
Here we are!
Comment and share about your experience at retreat!
Welcome back to a new semester! It’s unfortunate that the first week started out with so much rain, but it’s exciting to return to see God continue His work on the campus.
This year, our theme is Growing Deeper in our understanding of the gospel from God’s grace to our brokenness, and the practice of the gospel. Long sentence short, we want to truly understand the gospel and live it out.
After the first semester, leadership got together to seek and pray about how God has been working in the fellowship. God’s definitely been growing the fellowship in community and deeper friendships. However, we also noticed other core values that we may not have been meeting as a fellowship and they are areas of prayer, outreach, and teaching. For this coming spring semester, we are excited to continue to grow in our community along with focusing on the areas of prayer, outreach, and teaching.
Prayer. In terms of prayer, we definitely want to pray more as a group of believers and seek God first. It’s easier said than done. But we’re going to make better attempts in making prayer more of a priority in our lives. We’ll be setting aside more time to pray in Large Groups and Small Groups. In addition, we’ll be continuing our outreach prayer meetings led by Briana. We understand that praying isn’t just about doing more of it and checking it off the to-do list, but we hope that by praying more together, we’ll develop a culture of prayer in our own individual lives.
Outreach. God calls us to be witnesses and to share the gospel. This semester, we really hope that we can see each person in the fellowship grow in their heart for outreach whether that’s verbally sharing the gospel or simply sharing the gospel through loving actions. In addition, we hope that we’ll be able to do more outreach events corporately. An example of this may be handing out socks to the homeless and praying over them. Whether we may be doing outreach corporately or individually, we really hope that God will grow us to see that every moment of our lives is an opportunity to outreach and love those around us.
Teaching. This semester leadership has decided to make our Large Group theme about the bigger theme of the gospel. It’s correct to think of the gospel as Jesus Christ coming to earth, dying on the cross, and rising three days later. However, we realize that, that is only a slice of a larger picture of the gospel story. We realize there are four major themes of Christianity: Creation, the fall, redemption, and restoration. We hope that by understanding this larger theme, we’ll get a larger perspective of who God is. Join us at Large Group every Thursday night at 6:30pm as we discuss about creation, the fall, redemption, and restoration!
