GTS (Fri) & V-Day of Compassion (Sat)

GTS

Be sure to sign up for a GTS (Gracepoint Training School) class that everybody will be taking on Friday nights. No, you don’t get units. They are just like our regular Bible studies, but they each are geared towards specific crowds so that we all can get the most out of God’s words. We will meet together as Kairos 4 for dinner, then head over to First Presbyterian Church together (near Unit 3), for a time of praise, then break off to our specific courses. Afterwards we’ll come back together for a time of fun. Last day to sign up is this Wednesday night, so please CLICK HERE to sign up!

Valentine’s Day of Compassion

Wanted to let you know about a tradition our church and campus fellowships had started a few years back.  Valentine’s Day has become a day that’s overhyped with romantic love notions, which sadly leaves a LOT of people feeling left behind.  What our church as a whole has decided to do was to bring love and compassion to the most forgotten people in our communities, to bring a day of joy into their lives of difficult circumstances.  This includes folks at nursing homes, at homeless and transition shelters, battered women shelters, Salvation Army centers, etc.

Kairos 2 and 4 are joining forces this Saturday to bring an afternoon of joy to the children (ages K-12) of families at a transition center in Oakland… These are homeless families that are given a place to stay for a month while they try to find themselves somewhere more stable.

Our program is going to be from 2-4pm, but we’ll need to do some prep work beforehand.  So we’re going to meet at Dana House (2440 Dana/Dwight) at 11:30… it’s BYOL (bring your own lunch), or just come having eaten.

Then, AFTERwards, we’ll be having a lot of fun and the Kairos staff will be providing a great dinner for y’all… more info on that to come!  But it’ll be a very full day of both meaningful work as well as lots of fun fellowship!

Please let me know, however, if you can make it to our visit to the homeless transition center, and also if you’d need a ride to Dana house.  Share your love by clicking here.

Winter Retreat Recap & DT Group Signups

This past weekend Kairos 4 had the awesome opportunity to attend Gracepoint’s church-wide winter retreat at Mt. Hermon, Santa Cruz. It was good to start off the year studying the word of God in depth through messages by Pastor Ed, listening to encouraging stories of how people overcame different personal fears in their lives with the help of God, and taking part in awesome worship time with special guest praise leader, Joe Horness. Even more awesome was that by the end of the retreat, 7 college students from Kairos made decisions to receive Christ into their lives! Cool!

Posing together with all the other Kairos groups.

Kairos 4.

Random grouping of K2 and K4 people.

// DT Group Signups //

So exciting news. We’re going to start up Devitional Time (DT) groups this semester. We will have the opportunity to do our devotions in small groups during different times and days during the week, depending on your own schedule. We are opening the DT groups up to all of Kairos. It will be a great way to grow with other college students, and hear insights from Scripture that you might not have thought of upon your own personal reading. God’s word is deep in meaning and this will be a wonderful way to help you study His word better, and on a more regular basis.

Interested? Sign up asap by CLICKING HERE.

Key Verse for the Year 2009

Welcome Back!

School is officially back in session (as of last week). Kairos 4 wishes you all the best in your classes this semester. See you around!

Congratulations on Graduating, Zack!

Kairos 4 would like to congratulate Zack on graduating this past fall semester. We wish you the best and pray that God will use you mightily in your future to come! We will miss you!

Kairos 3 & 4 Xmas Gift Exchange!

Here they are, the highly anticipated pics from last month’s Kairos 3 & 4 Christmas Gift Exchange. When we combine, you know you’re in for a night of crazy fun. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. Where else will you find yummy food, and people showcasing their large hands, break-dancing skills, double-jointed-ness, salesman pitches, Jenga skills, and arm wrestling fierceness all for the sake of securing the best $5 gift? No doubt it’s here!

Hope y’all had fun. You can see more pics (and download high res ones) in our photo gallery, located on the tab at the top of this site. Until next time!

Bored Yet?

Hi everyone!

Your break is almost half over now, huh?  Hope it’s been very restful!  I also hope it’s been at least somewhat productive!  But, if you’re finding boredom starting to settle in (or well-established), I wanted to offer some online resources to help keep your mind a little active…

1) Gracepoint podcasts.

Especially if you don’t have a church you’re going to, or, if you’re like my parents up in Seattle, had been snowed in and couldn’t get the car out of the driveway for a couple of weekends, you can still hear a pretty good message from your own home.

2) Check out our Resources page.

It has our daily devotion text, complete with commentaries and suggested reflection questions, which you can utilize to study Bible passages on your own each day.  There are also a bunch of other resources on this page that you can look into.

***Take note half-way down this page… the link to the “Dis-Gracepoint” blog.  If you want to laugh, well, you’ll laugh.  It’s pretty funny.

3) Read these daily Breakpoint editorials (no relation to Gracepoint Fellowship Church).

Chuck Colson is one of the main writers of these editorials which offer a Christian worldview to current events (something you’ll for sure never hear or read about in the supposedly “fair” media except with denigrating reference by liberal reporters, or reporters that are pressured by liberal peers and editors).  Who’s Chuck Colson?  Can read about him on wikipedia, but in short, he was involved in the Watergate scandal, as one of the top advisors to President Nixon, went to prison for it, became a Christian, founded Prison Fellowship International, wrote many books, all of which I’d highly recommend to you, including an autobiography that specifically talks about his Watergate involvement, imprisonment and conversion (book is called Born Again).

Anyway, that should be enough to tide you over for three weeks.

Enjoy!

Debbie

Happy New Year!

Wishing you a happy new year! Looking forward to seeing y’all again when spring semester starts up!

Hanging in there?

Quick update:

We’ll be having dinner tonight at Lotus House on Durant (near the Durant Food Court) at 6:30pm. After that we’ll all head over to First Presbyterian Church at 7:30pm for Bible Study with the rest of Kairos, A2F, and Koinonia fellowships. We have a special outdoor element surprise post-bible study so you won’t want to miss it!

So dress warm, and be sure to bring a LED light or a small flashlight if you have one.

Finals are upon us. Hope you guys are all hanging in there!

See you tonight!

Don’t Miss This Friday!

Hey guys.

Sad to say, but the semester is rearing to a close… finals season is upon us [insert horrific scream here]. Therefore, we will be having our last official Kairos 4 small group bible study this Friday (the following 2 Fridays we will be coming together with the rest of Kairos, A2F, and Koinonia for large group bible studies). So you don’t want to miss it!

Need more incentive? How about an Xmas Party after bible study with Kairos 3? We will be playing a variation of White Elephant Gift Exchange together as a group. It’s gonna be fun, and a great way to officially kickstart this Christmas season. Please bring a $5 (max) gift to partake in the fun festivities. And please please try bring something that people would actually want… so put off wrapping up your grandma’s fruitcake or Aunt Sally’s odd-sized socks for another time.

See you on Friday!