Dana House was filled with people eating and having a good time.

You can't forget the meat!

Ultimate King Kong Shower Battle!

Hope all of you who were there had a blast! Stay posted for all the activities we’ll be having next week!

For all Christians: our Praise Night is coming up!! In addition to rockin’ praise and worship at our new student center at Buffet Town, the Praise Night will also be an introduction to discipleship in Koinonia.

Dinner won’t be provided, but we’ll have snacks afterwards.

Here are some pictures from the night!

It’s our beautiful banner that some of the juniors and sophomore girls made!

In the beginning when we first began!

Later just a section of Barrows Courtyard, we sit down to watch the battle of the dorms begin!

The whipped cream surprise for the hungriest challenge! (Note: a couple of us tried the bubble gum ball later and found that it was indeed bubble gum and totally doable though we didn’t try it with whipped cream!)

Overall, it was an amazing and very memorable night of fun & food! Don’t forget to join us for Koinonia Kickoff this Friday at 2050 VLSB! We’ll be having FREE boba!

I hope everyone’s first day of classes went well! Hopefully no one got lost and found themselves in the wrong room (that has definitely happened to me before!).

Well if you enjoyed any of our Welcome Week events, NSWN, or are just sitting there wondering what “Koinonia” means, then come to our Koinonia Kickoff! It’s this coming Friday, August 27, at 7:30 pm.

Just like NSWN, there will be live music, a new skit, a thought-provoking talk, fun games, and free boba! It’s all happening at 2050 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building).

Afterwards, we’ll also play exciting team games and sports at the Maxwell Family Field!

Come and bring your friends and floormates!
Hope to see you there!

For some of us, we drove over to NATIONS, a fabulous burger joint in the Bay Area, to try some of their famous burgers and pies. It was the first time ever for a lot of us, but for some, it was one time too many…

New Student Welcome Night is almost here!

This year we’re going to have THREE showings on Tuesday, August 24, 2010!  Come to any of the three equally AWESOME showings at 4PM, 6PM and 8PM!

Come and join us, whether you’re a new student or old, for a night of live music, an awesome skit, fun games, a thought-provoking talk, and FREE KOREAN BBQ!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!!

Join our NSWN Facebook Group! Help us spread the word by letting your friends know about this event!

Here’s a trailer to whet your appetite…

Check the New Student Welcome Night site to see more trailers!

This past weekend, the upperclassmen from A2F, Kairos, and Koinonia had a combined discipleship retreat with Pastor Ed and Kelly at Sierra Lodge where we had a time of fellowship, studying God’s Word, and casting visions together.

Those of us who were able to get a day off of work, don’t have class on Fridays, or just wanted to chill, headed up to Sierra Lodge early and spent the day at Lake Tahoe. We had an awesome time swimming and kayaking in the lake, trying to catch little fish with our bare hands (which proved to be impossible), and getting our friends as wet as possible without capsizing our own kayaks. I’m sure we all returned to Sierra Lodge several shades darker than we were when we first left it.

When the rest of the upperclassmen arrived Friday night (for a total of 120 students/staff!), we got started right away as Pastor Ed and Kelly started off the retreat with our first session—a review of the gospel through Genesis, and the theme of entrustment as shown in 2 Timothy. We were all reminded of the life changing treasure that each of us has been entrusted with, how we have received the gospel message through reliable men, and how we are also called to become those reliable men who preserve and guard this treasure.

Other sessions throughout the weekend included reflecting on the picture of wisdom illustrated in the book of Proverbs, looking at Apostle Paul’s relationships and reevaluating our own criteria for feeling close to people, and listening to an inspiring message, “the local church is the hope of the world,” by Bill Hybels.

Hearty meals (bomb pulled-pork-sandwiches), fun at the lake, singing hymns around the campfire, late-night basketball fellowship, and simply spending the weekend with all of our peers really put the icing on the cake.

We ended our time at the retreat with a time of casting visions of where our church will be in 10 years. Expansion of our Interhigh ministry, homegrown leaders in our sister church in Taiwan, church plants at every UC—let’s remain faithful in sharing the gospel and maturing spiritually so that these visions may become a reality!

Today we held the first-ever Koinonia 10K Run for Hunger! All our registration fees went towards supporting World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine, a program to raise awareness and money to fight world hunger.

Waking up bright and early, two groups started at 6:20am and 7am to run along Alameda’s beautiful beach. Everyone ran their hearts out! It was a wonderful time of fellowshipping through small physical suffering for a good cause. Hopefully the 10K will encourage all of us to pursue greater physical and spiritual discipline!

Here are some great pics and videos documenting the pre- and post-race scene! Wow, it was such an EPIC race! See you at next year’s Run for Hunger!

We also began preparations for the epic New Student Welcome Night that’s looming over the horizon!