Koinonia Berkeley Freshmen at the Suhs

This past Friday after our Bible study, Stephen and Suzanne Suh (the directors of Koinonia, Berkeley), invited the Freshmen over to their place. It was a great time of getting to know each other and sharing in laughter and fun with shaved ice. We played the blanket name game (I don't know the official game), where you have two teams and a blanket raised up in between them. Then from each team, you send one person to sit in front of of the blanket. As soon as the blanket falls you the person who says the other person's name first wins. Just click on the image below to see some of the pictures we took.
Here's also a short clip of that blanket game.



It would be very difficult to tell from the video, but Brian and Brandon (they are twins) exchanged jackets to confuse the other team. I must say, that is genius.

We also played the electricity game. You can see Chris Gilling is very proud that his team won that round.

Special Event :: Gone!

Special Event: GONE
Thursday, Nov 6 @ 7PM - First Pres (Dana & Channing)

Join us for a special joint event hosted by a2f, Kairos, and Koinonia! There will be live music, sharing from different members of our group, and more! Invite your friends!

Koinonia HG 6 and HG 8 BBQ...and Christine's birthday

This past Thursday we joined Koinonia HG 6 for some awesome BBQ. It was a great time to meet some new people and also see some old familiar faces as well. The food was definitely an upgrade from the DC food. After the BBQ there was a short but sweet surprise party for Christine.


I have no idea what they are doing there. But if you're wondering who Christine is, she's the only one not doing that weird hand gesture.

Ghirardelli Pictures!

Two Fridays ago, we teamed up with homegroup 4 to take a trip to the Ghiradelli Chocolate Factory. We had some really good ice cream! Our mouths watered as we looked at all the beautiful chocolate arrangements too!



Isaiah Kang . . . no matter how many times we tell him not to be greedy . . .

Home group 8 trying to pose that we're number one. Not sure if its clear at all what we're doing!

Ha ha, why is Brian in the front by himself?



Did I mention we had a lot of ice cream?

Ewwww . . . Jin Kim . . .

October Birthdays

Somehow, October seems to be a month dedicated to endless Birthday celebrations! Not that I'm complaining, but there sure has been a lot of Birthday surprises. I think the October babies included: Cyndi, Jackie, Elizabeth, Megan, Alex's which is today & then Christine's tomorrow & Vivian's at the end of the month! Happy Birthday to each of you. The pictures above are some ummm . . . errr . . . "interesting" pictures we took at Jackie & Elizabeth's birthday.

Girls' Sleepover 10/3/08

We had a great time at our girls' sleepover a couple weeks ago. We teamed up with HG 4 (Hannah's group) & HG 6 (Joanna's group). We told some hilarious stories, ate a lot of food & watched our past performances from G-Live (a performance we put on every 2 years at Gracepoint Fellowship Church). Our favorite was watching our very own John Chung sing & dance acting as a lawyer & Irene Youm acting as good old Sally, the secretary who gets John to turn back to his old dreams as a young Christian. We'll be having G-Live again this upcoming spring - looking forward to it! Here's some more fun pictures:

Guest Speakers

Hey everyone!
There are going to be two guest speakers on campus tonight to discuss some philosophical questions as well as some apologetics. They'll be meeting in Wheeler tonight at 7PM but knowing most of these campus wide talks, it's best to come early for good seats (or just seats for that matter). For more information on Michael Ramsden you can visit here and for Os Guinness visit this page.

Topics: Mike Ramsden – Is Faith Delusional?; Os Guinness – A Thinker’s Quest for Meaning
Location: Wheeler Auditorium, Berkeley
Date: 10/9/08, Thursday
Time: 7pm, followed by 30 min of Q&A

Pictures!

Hey guys,
As most of you have probably noticed, we try to take a lot of pictures during our meetings/events/gatherings/activities/etc. And if your wondering where they're all going, we try to post them on our Gracepoint flickr site. You can access the photostream here. You'll be able to see pictures from all our different groups by clicking on the "Collections" button right under the "gracepoint's photostream" at the top of the page. They're organized so that the Collections are usually the different groups and the Sets are the events or places where the pictures were taken. Have a look around at all that's been going on in the past few years!

Tilden Park!

Last Saturday we had a chance to get all the freshmen and seniors together for a nice BBQ and sports time at Tilden Park! All in all, I think we had around 80 people show up to head up the hill to Tilden (with some really nice views on the way up). After arriving, people piled out to play a variety of sports ranging from soccer to volleyball to ultimate frisbee. This was all followed by an awesome feast of burgers and hot dogs and then a few more games afterwards. Then we all piled into the cars again to head down the mountain which was an adventure in and of itself due to closed roads and non-existant detours. Regardless we made it all down safely and enjoyed the Cal vs. Colorado State game at Kip's/Sun Hong Kong. Hope to see you next time!


Left: Christine and Myra BBQ'ing some delicious food, Right: Grabbing the grub


Top: Isaiah leading his group cheer, Bottom: Another group cheer


Top: Irene/Yumi/Christine (Clockwise from top), Bottom: Mini-water fight after the game


If you want to know what's going on here, it requires that you know AMERICAN TAI-CHI!!! This is where Sang lifted John Ko using his straightened arms and lifting up. Ask us for a demonstration!