We’re canceling Hot Spot for this week only in order to give you all a chance to study and finish your work so that you can join us for our exciting trip this Saturday!
Life Groups will once again happen at the YWCA — food provided, of course!
FRI: BIBLE STUDY
7:30pm @ 112 Wurster
Join us in the fifth installment of the Why am I…? series. John “Korea” Lee will be touching on the topic, ”Why am I so lonely?”
FRI – SAT: SIERRA LODGE TRIP + CAL VS. USC FOOTBALL Departing immediately after bible study (~9:30pm)
We’ll be heading to the great out doors for this Saturday for a nice break from all those pesky midterms to enjoy each others company, fun sports, good food and of course, the CAL vs. USC football game. Check out the post and sign up!
Recent Posts
There’s a lot of activity on our blog lately. Here are the most recent ones:
UPDATE (10/1): Since many sisters are stressed out about midterms, this is now a BROS ONLY trip! For those who are staying back in Berkeley, fear not — sisters will have a sleepover in Alameda and Dim Sum + Study on Saturday, while bros will watch the game together. The rest who are going to the Sierras: it will be awesome.
PACKING LIST:
Sleeping bag
Bible/Notebook for DT
Shoes and socks for hike/sports
Backpack (to carry lunch on the hike)
Hat/visor/sunglasses
Long pants
Sweater and/or jacket (Warm Jacket for Nighttime)
Pajamas (no wearing pajamas in public/general areas)
Sunscreen
Toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.)
Water bottle
Towel
Flashlight
Come join us this Saturday as we get away from the concrete suburbia to the wonderful woods of the Sierras! The poster above doesn’t do the trip much justice; to be honest, the much anticipated Cal vs. USC football game is just icing on the cake.
We’ll be staying staying at the Lodge and Barn, constructed and built by many people of Gracepoint Berkeley (from Pastor Ed Kang to the staff to many of the students). Not only is it on par with (and similar-looking to) ski resorts, there’s a lot of things you can do on just our property alone:
Robert at the archery range
Play basketball on our own courts, complete with lights
We'll be the first group to play on our new football/soccer field
Hiking / Land Exploration
Much of this trip is to also go hiking and explore the surrounding land. As a EECS grad and now working with computers all day long, the bright blue skies and the vibrant green fields and trees are a welcome change in scenery.
The details
Come visit this post again to find out what to bring and such, but remember to sign up below! In the meantime, I leave you with this video from our last trip to the Sierras (we won’t be kayaking this time around b/c the water will be freezing):
Signups are now closed
PS: If you want to know more about our past Sierra trips, you can read Chanhee’s post and a more introspective post by Kevin Tan.
On Saturday, September 26th, 2009, Interhigh Ministry was launched through our kick-off event, Rise. For those of you who aren’t quite sure what Interhigh is, it’s a ministry started by our church, Gracepoint Berkeley, aimed at local bay area youth groups.
Anyway, after months of hard work and planning, the day finally came…
After we had set up all of the equipment, we had a quick meeting to go through the logistics and Pastor Will gave us a quick rundown on what would happen that night. The mentors all sounded very excited, but it was evident that we were all somewhat nervous.
Little by little, shortly after 5, the kids began trickling up the stairs, some looking timid, others very excited. In fact, one group of kids actually came up, saw us, and went back down until they could come up later, hidden within a bigger group. We did our best to get the energy level up, and thankfully, the youths were more than ready to cooperate. Groups would come up with cheers and chants, and people were meeting and greeting left and right. I was amazed to how we managed to keep them entertained for an hour while we waited for everyone (350 people, not including our own youth) to get registered. Then we were called inside…
And it went nuts. As soon as they walked in, they were greeted by a team of mentors forming something called the mentor tunnel, which is not unlike our missionary send-off custom, cheering and jumping and welcoming everybody who could make it…even some of the parents were excited and ran through giving high fives!
Meetin and greetin the youth
And then the praise…to see a generation that enthusiastic about worship is encouraging beyond words. Left and right, young students (and mentors ;D) were jumping up and down, hands raised high, shouting and singing with nonstop energy. Song after song, our praise band kept rocking on (Ander and Bessie were jumping just as much as anybody else!) and surprisingly, even after having to set up and be on my feet all day, I was too excited to feel fatigue…
And then we had Sean McDowell speak. All the students seemed genuinely interested and engaged in the talk: nobody was nodding off. The crowd actively participated, answering back and eager to get the correct answers. It was simply amazing to see their thoughts change before our eyes as he led them on a journey pursuing this thing called truth, explaining subjectivity and objectivity in terms of ice cream and insulin, speaking about the disillusionment of relativism, and giving specific cases of how people try to question Christianity, or at least absolute truth, and how to defend it in practical terms.
Sean McDowell preaching it
Then all the students were challenged to take this into their lives as the skit team showed them the lives of 4 high school Christians struggling to live out their faith and really captured what so many in the audience were feeling.
Then we had some time for games and getting to know each other…different mentors had a plethora of experiences. It was really encouraging to hear the positive comments, and really eye-opening to how much some of these students need this.
Either way…it’s seems as if there are big things happening for the youth in the bay area…I am blessed to be able to say that I am a part of Interhigh. I know that I really could’ve used older role models and like-minded peers to help me live out my faith as I went through high school, so I hope that I can be somebody that these kids can look up to (to those of you who are laughing right now: Hey! in Him all things are possible!) and that perhaps I’ll be able to give some advice or guidance to a lost, troubled young man, not only to spare him from the suffering that I am all too familiar with, but also to lead him to the joy found in having a relationship with our Father, of whom I can never know enough.
Picture taken from our Sierra Lodge construction in 2007
You may/may not have noticed, but our Kairos website has been going under some construction/renovation lately. If you happened to be the few who hit the site and received a php error — I apologize.
Here are some highlights:
Upcoming Events in middle column. I’ve bragged about this pointed this out already, so let’s move on.
Recent Side Posts section, below the Featured Posts, is now streamlined. Put your mouse over the picture for a sweet something.
Archives, bottom of the third column. Just in case you want to check out some posts from, I dunno, May ‘09, when everything was oh-so-different.
New fonts. This may be a bit more esoteric, but we’re using non-web standard fonts for both the column and the post headers. Egads! For the typographical enthusiasts, the column header is using “Le Havre”, and the post header “Liberation Sans”. All two fonts are being pulled from Typekit.
What do you guys think — how do you like these changes? Any suggestions for future improvements?
Sierra Lodge
Albert, wearing a Sierra Lodge t-shirt, looking at Sierra Lodge
Speaking of dust and construction, some of the Kairos staff — along with other Praxis members — went to Sierra Lodge this past Saturday. We got a lot of work done: we extended the back deck of the Sierra Barn, put up some posts, and dug some holes in which the foundations of a new gazebo will be laid upon. Yours truly spent half the day moving rocks (they were some might fine rocks).
Ground, meet the auger
I mention this just to say: Sierra Lodge is pretty awesome. The pictures above don’t do it justice — I’m saving the good ones for another post, soon to come. I will sign off with just these parting words: you’ll want to come out to Sierra Lodge this Saturday. Big game, big fun. Again, more info to come!
This past saturday, Kairos went to Montara State Beach! We gathered bright and early at Anna Head Parking Lot to organize rides and soon we were headed over to beautiful Pacific Coast Highway and a day of fun and fellowship (by that time, our Cal Football running back, Jahvid Best had already scored two touchdowns! Go Bears!). When we got there, we needed everyone’s help to move all the food, sports equipment, chairs, and even a grill down to our spot at the beach.
Kairos arrives at Montara Beach!
The day is basically summed up in three words: sports, food, and fellowship. Students and staff alike played the usual beach sports such as volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and football while others played some more unconventional ones such as King Kong Shower. I have to say, playing sports in the sand is a lot more tiring than on grass or at the gym. Playing Ultimate Frisbee in the sand and trying to guard Mike Park made me really tired really fast. Then of course, what would a day at the beach be without food? We had delicious burgers and hot dogs, which tasted even more awesome because we were all hungry from playing sports.
An intense game of football! I think Roy got burned here (:
Some sisters playing King Kong Shower after playing Ultimate Football
Dr. J goes up for a set
A game of volleyball
Grilling our awesome lunch
Hungry college students waiting in line for patties and hot dogs
All in all, I think everybody had a lot of fun (and got a lot of exercise)!
Click on the group pictures for larger versions.
I look forward to our next outing! I hear that we might be having a Sierra Lodge trip very soon. Keep on the watch for the announcement! :] See you all at Bible Study!
Life Groups will once again happen at the YWCA — food provided, of course!
(Sophomores and Juniors, we’ll be having BYOF — bring your own food — at First Pres courtyard at the same time!)
FRI: COMBINED BIBLE STUDY 7:30pm @ First Prebyterian (2407 Dana St)
Update (9/24): We’re now joining a2f and Koinonia to have a Combined Bible Study, led by Pastor Ed! Koinonia will take the lead on praise this time around — maybe next time, the Kairos band will step up to the plate? In any case, join us as cover the next topic in the series, “Why am I so envious?”
This will be the fourth in our Bible Studies series. This week, John “Korea” Lee will be touching upon the topic, “Why am I so envious?” If you saw him in action at our beach trip this past Saturday, this message is just for you. I’m pretty envious of his two key interceptions against the students in our staff vs. students football game!
Update (9/25):After Bible Study, we’ll be having a Photo Scavenger Hunt the bros will be going to the Memorial Stadium for some football + frisbee action! Sisters will be hanging out at various apartments with snacks.
Bible Study will be at First Presbyterian Church, on Dana/Channing. See you there!
Hope everyone had a refreshing weekend as Cal stomped all over Eastern Washington. Last Friday @ Kairos we had an equally awesome bible study and bowling night at Country Club Bowl in San Rafael. It started off with some rockin’ praise introducing some of our new praise band members.
Here's sophomore Steven Chang on the drums!
Pearlene on the Keyboard
Angel and Catarina on the vocals
After the praise we had the Masks skit.
Steve Kim then gave a rousing message on why we don’t need to put masks on anymore. He interviewed some of the upperclassmen and asked them what masks they put on. He concluded with the fact that our search for significance is over because God already knows us!
Well, after that Bible study we headed over the San Rafael bridge (or at least most of us…) for an awesome bowling night. 2 hours of action packed fun with A2f Bowling right next to us. I believe the high score of the night was Andy Tung with 208. I heard there were a few turkeys (3 strikes in a row) that night as in the lane right next to mine, our very own junior Stephen Chee bowled an awesome turkey. Anyways, here’s a few more pictures of the night! Don’t forget to join us next week at 112 Wurster for our weekly Kairos Bible Study!!
Worldview Conference w/ Del Tackett, Father Sirico & Others
What is Kairos?
We are a Christian campus fellowship at UC Berkeley. We believe that the Bible is still very relevant in this day and age, and we live life and have fun together.
