Koinonia Christian Campus Fellowship – UC Berkeley Club

This past winter break, a group of us from our college and IGSM department went on a mission trip to Taiwan.

Here is a picture of our team:

There we outreached alongside our Hsinchu church to host a Christmas Celebration Party. Every day consisted of DT in the morning together, prayer time, prayer walks on campus, and then going out to the DCs to flyer and meet students through sharing meals.

This was also our first year trying a new thing called, “Christmas Host Teams.” Our mission team along with the Taiwanese students were split into 6 teams and the teams were:

Orange

Blue

Red

Black

Green

And Yellow!

(yes the team names were very creative). Notice how I put orange first. Orange, Orange! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

With our teams, we did fun activities like going to the night market

and a Saturday outing to Nanliao.

It was a competitive race to the finish line!

Here’s a picture of our entire group at Nanliao:

We ended the Saturday outing with a scrumptious hotpot meal.

Those moments together were memorable times and it was a blast getting to know the Taiwanese students!

The big night of the Christmas Celebration party was a really good turn out. The night started with praise, then we had our Christmas Skit,

(Angels we have heard on high…)

Followed by testimony sharing by our members, wrapped up with a passionate message about the Christmas Story by Andy

and our finale Song “Joy to the World”. The students seemed very engaged and many of them heard the True Christmas story for the first time.

The following Sunday we had our Taiwan Church’s 3^rd anniversary and it was a particularly meaningful one because Christie and Paul, who had made their decisions to accept Christ earlier in the week, read their commitment cards to the congregation.

Our last night in Taiwan, we had a farewell party where each team did a song and dance to capture their experience during the mission trip.

Here are some highlights:

(I wish they caught Steven Chee on camera when he strutted across the stage)

It was a sad farewell, but a lot of us agreed that it wouldn’t be goodbye forever. We’re looking forward to being able to go back to Taiwan one day!

There was a lot that happened, but this is all I have for now! I hope this encourages you to go on the next one!

Last Thursday, Koinonia frosh and seniors gathered together at BT to have a Christmas gift exchange party. We first started off with some amazingly awesome food. Most of the frosh just came back from Winter fest but that didn’t matter. How can you say no to that?

Then we began the gift unwrapping ceremony. Needless to say some were very satisfied with their gifts and some were expected something a little different.

There were some very nice gifts like a Jenga set, maglite set, a very soft pillow and throw set, etc. It’s amazing what you can get under $10. The gift exchanging was done by teams in which there was some very hilarious team duals that took place.

After all the massive exchanging, Steve ended the time with a very heart warming time of spurring on the students to remember the true meaning of Christmas. It’s so easy to get lost in all the lights, decorations or gifts of Christmas. But let’s make this Christmas a personal one, remembering that the greatest gift there is is the fact that God gave his one and only son Jesus to every one of us. Merry Christmas!