Koinonia Christian Campus Fellowship – UC Berkeley Club

Gracepoint has the privilege of hosting this year’s EPS Apologetics Conference at Berkeley! The EPS Apologetics Conference is the biggest apologetics event of the year, with famous evangelical apologists coming to teach and train you.

The list of speakers include:

• J.P. Moreland
• Craig Hazen
• William Lane Craig
• Greg Koukl
• Dallas Willard

And even more!

This is an amazing lineup of speakers and a training opportunity that you don’t want to miss!

Space is limited, so be sure to sign up now!

When: Nov. 17-19, 2011

• Thursday & Friday, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
• Saturday, 8:45am – 1:00pm

Cost: $15 Gracepoint Special; $29 other students; $49 general attendee

Note: ask one of your staff if you did not receive an email with special instructions to purchase at the reduced price.

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!

As announced, there’s a ton of stuff going on this summer. And as we talked about at the Bible study yesterday, let’s be good stewards with our time and make the most of this summer!! Please sign up for the following by clicking on the images.

Also, don’t forget to sign up for the discipleship retreats (we don’t have a fancy flyer). These are precious, life-changing times for Christians to spend with Pastor Ed, Kelly, and your peers up at Sierra Lodge for a time of training, vision-casting, relationship-deepening, and fun!

Multiply your talents is an awesome way to gain skills for our summer of servanthood!

Hi everyone, with just two weeks of school left, please study hard. Here’s the rundown of the week. There’s still lots going on before the end of the semester!

• Tuesday 4/20, 6:30pm: Prayer Meeting @ First Pres.
• Friday 4/23: Final homegroup Bible Study for this semester. Contact your staff for details. (Next Friday will be our last large-group Koinonia Bible study plus Maxwell Sports Nite!)
• Saturday 4/24, 9am-4pm: Christian Worldview Conference @ Willard. There’s a great lineup of speakers, including Jennifer Roback Morse and Del Tackett from the Truth Project.
• Sunday 4/25, 10am: Mark Inductive Course. 11:30am: Baptism Service. Baptisms are always wonderful opportunities to praise God for what He’s done in people’s lives so come and share in the joy!

We’re excited to announce that William Lane Craig will be giving several lectures (hopefully on campus), and training us on various topics this weekend!

This Saturday (4/17), he will be giving us some special lectures from 10am-2pm (each session will be 45 min lecture with 15 min Q/A).  Location TBA soon!

Note: This is a training for Christians. Sign up here.

What an incredible opportunity! Sign up here!

Here’s the quick rundown of this week and next:

• Bible studies will be on Thursday (3/18) this week. We’re going over Mark Inductive in smaller groups (and thus there’s no Mark this Sunday). Please contact your staff for details.
• Friday (3/19):Dinner by homegroups, followed by all-Koinonia softball and ultimate frisbee! Some people might wanna catch the Cal vs. Louisville game too. Please contact your staff for details.
• Sunday (3/21): Prayer worship service starts at 11:30am as usual. Those of us going to Yosemite will leave right after the service! Stay tuned about what to bring.
• The seniors will also be leaving for their discipleship retreat at Sierra Lodge on Sunday. Please meet 6:30pm at Anna Head. Let’s pray they would have a refreshing and challenging time as they get set to enter another important juncture in their lives.
• Have a great spring break, everyone!