Kairos Christian Fellowship (Gracepoint – Berkeley)

Merry Christmas Kairos! We just wanted to wish all of you (wherever you are) a very merry and safe Christmas. We are all so thankful that we got to meet you and grow closer to you this past year.

Here are some quick reminders of what’s coming up:

WINTER RETREAT SIGNUPS
Friday 1/22 4:00PM – Sunday 1/24 @ Mount Hermon

If you haven’t done so already, please sign up for Winter Retreat. It’s the highlight retreat of the year so you really don’t want to miss out!

Sign up for the 2010 Winter Retreat

If you’ve already signed up, please submit your retreat fees as soon as you can:

Early bird special (if we RECEIVE your payment by 12/31/09): $100
After 12/31/09: $150

If you’re outside of the bay area, please send your retreat fees to:

Gracepoint – Berkeley
c/o Annie Song
2000 North Loop Road
Alameda, CA 94502

KNOTT’S BERRY FARM
Monday 12/28, Meet at front entrance at 10:00AM
$23/person

For those of you that have signed up for Knott’s, we’ll be meeting at the front entrance.

SMALL GROUP BIBLE STUDY IN ALAMEDA
6:00pm* Pickups @ Anna Head West Parking Lot

If you have a final Friday night, please let your staff know so they can arrange a later ride for you.

Congrats to everyone who finished finals (especially to the freshmen who just finished their first semester)! While most of you are heading home, for those of us who will be around for a few more days, we’ll be having bible study (starting with dinner) by small groups in Alameda this week.

FROSH & SRS – Andy & Amy’s House
SOPHS & JRS – Steve & Eunice’s House

Also if you haven’t done so already, please remember to sign up for the 2010 Winter Retreat! It’s the biggest retreat of the year where we’ll be hearing lots of messages, sharings and testimonies, playing games and sports and getting to know people from different ministries! Please sign up, you don’t want to miss out!

Dates: Fri 1/22 – Sun 1/24
Location: Mt. Hermon Conference Center
Cost: TBA

Sign up for the 2010 Winter Retreat

Hey Everyone!

Hope you’re all doing well.  I know it’s finals time and everyone is extremely busy studying, so hang in there!  Winter break is just around the corner.  Crank in a few more hours of hard studying and you’ll be there in no time.

So…. now for a recap of last week’s Kairos bible study and Christmas gift exchange!

Last Friday, we had Bible study in our very own North Loop building.  It was a cozy time as North Loop is very well decorated around this time of year.  Rick Yi gave a stirring message on the parable of the soils.  Through the Bible study, Rick pointed out that soil represents the condition of our heart.  The good news at the end was that, no matter which soil we relate to at the moment, we can become more and more like the good soil that grows and multiples.  I was persoanlly very impacted by reflecting on the various soils and I hope all of you were too.

After the Bible study we were all pretty hungry and enjoyed some good old…. Christmas style tacos!! Well, it wasn’t really Christmas style but it was dang good and there were tons of desserts to boot.   Here’s a couple pictures of the eating portion of the night.

After eating, we had the portion of the night everyone was looking forward to… The Gift Exchange! We split up into teams by birthday month and started off with a Pictionary game to see who would get some special abilities.

After Pictionary we had an intense Jenga match to see which team would go first!

With the formalities decided we finally began the epic 2009 Kairos Winter Christmas Party Gift Exchange!!!!
As you can see, some people got great gifts….

While others got not so great gifts….

We also had some surprise performances!

Overall it was an awesome night so I hope everyone had as great a time as I did! That’s all for now. Study hard and good luck on finals everyone!

Wow! Can you believe it? It’s the end of the school year already! Finals are quickly approaching and now it’s really time to get serious about hitting the books. But don’t stress out too much. Remember, you are still dearly loved no matter how well (or not so well) you do. ^_^

Just to do a quick recap, we had our Kairos Christmas Party/Gift Exchange last Friday and some of us were able to “survive” with some pretty snazzy gifts. More pictures are coming so just stayed tuned.

FRIDAY

DINNER
6:00pm

We’ll be having dinner by classes at different locations:

FROSH – Smart Alec’s (Corner of Durant and Telegraph) at 6pm
SOPHS, JRS, SRS – Sun Hong Kong at 6pm

COMBINED BIBLE STUDY
7:00pm @ 1st Presbyterian

For this week, we’re going to have bible study with Acts2Fellowship and Koinonia. What better way to get into the holiday spirit than to spend time with all of our friend and peers from other ministry groups. Pastor Ed will be giving a message from the IncomParable Wisdom series. See you all there!

Hope you all had a great time during Thanksgiving! Though a lot of people went home I heard there were some pretty fun things going on around here.

TC was awesome! Here’s a nice picture of some of our fearless leaders:

After a night of fun and laughter, we had an amazing dinner and took some pictures:

If you missed it this year, hope you can join us next year! Read more about Thanksgiving Celebration.

FRIDAY

BIBLE STUDY // CHRISTMAS PARTY // GIFT EXCHANGE
6:00pm RIDES @ Anna Head Parking Lot (Across from Crossroads)
Bible Study @ 2000 Northloop Rd, Alameda

You are all invited to our annual Kairos Christmas Party and Gift Exchange!

Bible study will begin at 7pm, and a scrumptious dinner will follow. I’m going to keep the menu a secret, but here are a couple of hints: There will be many varieties of this dish, and these varieties can come from different countries. Ok, one more: it rhymes with “paco” (changed since previous email). After our secret dinner, the festivities will begin. You will not want to miss the gift exchange, it will be very entertaining. In fact, you might be part of the entertainment, as we compete for the most desirable gifts.

“What should I bring?”, you ask yourself:

1. Bring yourself, hopefully a friend, and definitely a $5.00 to $10.00 gift, and preferably something that would be appealing to a brother or a sister. Please make sure your gift is wrapped or concealed in some way.

2. If you’re not too stressed from finals and are free to cook, bring a dessert! The staff will take care of dinner!

Study hard, good luck on finals, and an early Merry Christmas!