Koinonia Christian Campus Fellowship – UC Berkeley Club

It’s been a semester filled with great memories! Some highlights.

Freshmen/Seniors:

Sophomores/Juniors:

“Egg brain!” “Egg skull!” “Egg cranium!”…the word was actually “egghead.” As I fruitlessly tried to describe this word to the group around me during a hilarious game of Catchphrase, I couldn’t help but be thankful for being able to play this game with Berkeley students because only with Berkeley students could “egg cranium” come up and we could all laugh so hysterically. However, this was only one of a long list of things I was thankful for on Thanksgiving. During Thanksgiving break, most of us went home and a few of us stayed behind in Berkeley for various reasons. Despite not being at home with our families, we ended up having a great time!

Thanksgiving festivities spanned two days (sort of) that weekend. On Wednesday night, many of us went to Steve and Suzanne’s home to have a send-off/goodbye dinner for Isaiah and Will who were returning to Taiwan that night. After a delicious dinner of Korean rice cake soup, we prayed for Isaiah and Will that they may safely return to Taiwan and waste no time in getting back into the groove of things, revitalized and ready to continue their mission after their trip to Berkeley. Some of their peers went to send them off at the airport and the rest of us stayed to watch old G-Live videos, which is always a good way to end the night!

On Thanksgiving day, freshmen and seniors went to John and Ellen’s for lunch and sophomores and juniors went to Steve and Suzanne’s, where Jenny cooked Thai Curry for us! After that we all met up at a park to sweat off everything we ate and prepare ourselves for dinner by playing fun games of ultimate frisbee and soccer. Although I am not one particularly fond of sports, it’s a great way to get to know people you might not otherwise meet. Especially if the same tall person keeps grabbing the frisbee from over your head just as you are about to catch it. Those kinds of encounters are hard to forget.

After we were done playing and our stomachs were ready to eat Thanksgiving dinner, we all congregated at Steve and Suzanne’s. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and staff alike all pitched in to finish cooking dinner and right before we ate, we all wrote on a paper leaf something that we were thankful for and taped it onto our Thanksgiving tree that Summer made. It was really exciting to see the empty branches be filled by all the things that people were thankful for and see it become a full-blown, literal Thanksgiving tree! We then sat down together to feast on turkey, beef, cornbread, stuffing, etc.

Everything tasted so good that we all ate until we could eat no more. Literally. Really. It was a little hard to get people motivated to play games after that, but everybody soon got into the competitive spirit when Josh (from Element Youth!) and Kevan split us all up into teams in order to get to know each other and play ridiculous, made-up-on-the-spot games like paper airplane making contests. But it didn’t matter, because it was all too hilarious. After being demolished by Ellen in the semi-finals of arm-wrestling (reaffirming my belief that moms are ridiculously strong), I was exhausted and everyone else was, too, after such fun. So, of course we ended the night again by watching more G-Live videos!

Although we should always realize how blessed we are, it tends to be easier to realize our blessings on holidays like Thanksgiving. Being in a smaller group than normal, we all got to meet a lot of new people and got to know the ones that we already knew even more. Thanks be to God who brings us all into community so that we can share such great times together! I hope all of you who went home for Thanksgiving had a great time and felt God’s blessings. Those of us who stayed in Berkeley sure did!

UPDATE: Hey, RELIVE the trip and check out our video recap:

This past weekend, the frosh and seniors went to Sierra Lodge as a getaway after taking a bazillion midterms in the last couple weeks. It was a time packed with fun, or maybe too much fun where most people were too tired to even attempt to stay up during Saturday night! Man, never knew having fun can be so tiring.

The trip was filled with mucho fun activities like singing songs and eating s’mores around campfire, kayaking, playing football, frisbee, volleyball, and british bulldog at Lake Tahoe, baking, playing basketball, ping pong, etc! And of course, we cannot forget the ultimate ming mang mong and king kong shower (or as Steve Suh calls it, “King Kang Kong”)!

Here are some pictures from the trip:

Campfire and some singing and s’mores action!

Sisters rocking brothers in ping pong (I think they really beat the brothers!)

Brothers vs. Sisters Human Knot. I think the picture shows who won.

On Saturday, we went to Lake Tahoe early in the morning and played until late in the afternoon.

Getting ready to sail out!

Frosh coming back from intense kayaking!

While some of us were kayaking, some brothers played tackle football.

Tim getting rocked by frosh!

And then massive British Bulldog with 150 people!

And our final group picture

Frosh and seniors…what was your favorite part of the trip? Leave a comment!

Freshmen, don’t miss this exciting trip to our beautiful Sierra Lodge on Friday 10/15 to Sunday 10/17!! There will be some major bonding to get to know the other frosh, good food, hiking, boating/kayaking, campfires (with campfire songs!), basketball, frisbee, stargazing…FUN.

See what the Sophomores and Juniors have to say!

Please SIGN-UP here for the trip!

The suspense, oh the excitement, it’s too amazing for words!!!!….. you might be asking yourself, what is so awe inspiring that it produces this level of anticipation??? Well, Check this out!

So this past Friday after the conclusion of our 2 part bible study message series on John 4 the story of the Samaritan Woman the Frosh and Seniors had a blast going all over campus on a photo scavenger hunt! We had a great time of taking a lot of funny pictures and…. coming up with dance battles?

Afterwards we all headed back to Buffet Town and had some tasty shaved ice.

Made up some team cheers for each of our scavenger hunt teams,

But the best part was getting together to see all the pictures we had taken,

and of course the reactions!

That sure was a fun night! Join us next Friday, we’re going to be having a special talk! We’re going to be discussing a big and important question – whether all religions lead to God.  To top it all off, we’re going to have free sundaes too, Don’t miss out!

This past Friday the Freshmen and Seniors met on their own for a Bible Study on John 4, the story of the Samaritan Woman, also known as the Woman at the Well. It was part 1 of 2, so be sure to join us next week for the conclusion!

Afterwards we went bowling. Check out this cool video for a recap:

And here are some more pictures from the night!

Join us next week for another exciting event!

P.S. – Anyone happen to know the high score for the evening?