International Graduate Student Ministry – Gracepoint Berkeley

4-Week Free English Conversation Class
Understanding Current Events in American Media

4 Sundays (6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27)
Time: 9:00-11:00am
Place: YWCA Berkeley Building, 2nd floor
(We are not affiliated with YWCA’s English in Action program)
Address: 2600 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704 (Bancroft & Bowditch St.)

The focus of this four-week course is to improve your English listening and comprehension skills through talking about current events.  You will have opportunities to read magazine articles and listen to radio clips about events happening in the US and internationally, and then discuss them in small groups under the guidance of native speaker instructors.

We will draw from popular media sources, such as TIME Magazine and National Public Radio (NPR), providing you with resources to stay informed of current events while you are in America.  This course will also provide you with practical tips and strategies on how to be a better listener and speaker in academic settings so you can improve your participation in the classroom and group meetings.

If you are interested, you may sign up at English Class Signup.

More Than Meets the I – Part 3 – More Than Ego

Date: Sunday, 6/20
Time: 11am
Place: YWCA Berkeley Building (2600 Bancroft Way)

Hope you guys have been enjoying the series titled “More Than Meets the I”.  If you haven’t heard them, listen to the podcast by clicking on the following links (More Than Body and More Than Feelings).  This week, we will be meeting to hear about the third topic “More Than Ego”.  Afterwards, we will have a delicious lunch, followed by sports time (don’t forget to bring a change of clothes).  So come join us this week at the YWCA (2600 Bancroft Way) at 11am.

More Than Meets the I – Part 2 – More Than Feelings

Date: Sunday, 6/13
Time: 11am
Place: YWCA Berkeley Building (2600 Bancroft Way)

We will be meeting to hear about the second topic of our Three Part Series titled “More Than Meets the I” for the Sunday Large Group this Sunday (6/13).  This week we will talk about the topic of “More Than Feelings”.  Afterwards, we will have a delicious lunch, followed by sports time (don’t forget to bring a change of clothes).  So come join us this week at the YWCA (2600 Bancroft Way) at 11am.

We will have our first English Class for the series Understanding Current Events in American Media. Come to the YWCA, 2nd Floor starting at 9am on Sunday 6/6.  You can still sign up by clicking on the following link. [sign up here]

More Than Meets the I – Part 1 – More Than Body

Date: Sunday, 6/6
Time: 11am
Place: YWCA Berkeley Building (2600 Bancroft Way)
BBQ Picnic after at San Pablo Park (2800 Park St)

We will be starting our Three Part Series titled “More Than Meets the I” for the Sunday Large Group this Sunday (6/6).  This week we will talk about the topic of “More Than Body”.  Afterwards, we will have a delicious BBQ and sports time (don’t forget to bring a change of clothes).  So come join us this week at the YWCA (2600 Bancroft Way) at 11am.

Because of the Memorial Day Yosemite Trip, we will not be having the IGSM Sunday Large Group this week.  If you are still in the area and looking for a large group to join, please join Gracepoint Berkeley’s Sunday Worship Service at 11am at Willard Middle School on Telegraph.

Because of the Yosemite Trip, there will be no IGSM Friday Forum this week.

We will have our IGSM Sunday Service at a new time.  The new IGSM Sunday Service will start at 11:00am at the YWCA.  Come join us for a time of study the Bible, have a delicious lunch and have some time of fellowship afterwards.

We will have our IGSM Friday Forum this Friday (5/21) at 6:30pm at the YWCA. Since everybody is going to be done with finals, this week’s dinner will be a potluck. Please email Kate (katechow07 at gmail) with what you plan to bring. Afterwards, we will have a farewell for Mia, who will be leaving to help start a church at the University of Minnesota. Come join us to hear the Bible together and then to wish Mia farewell.

On Memorial Day weekend, IGSM will be going to Yosemite to view the beautiful outdoors.  We will be leaving Friday evening (5/28) and returning back Monday (5/31) and staying at nice houses near Yosemite for three nights (note the extended dates).  During those three days, we will go hiking and just enjoy each others company with lots of good food and laughs.  The cost of the trip will be $100 (increase in price because staying one night longer then initially posted), which includes food, housing and transportation.

We will be having IGSM Sunday Service up there, so there will be no IGSM Sunday Service at the Y on 5/30.

If you are interested, please sign up below.

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No IGSM Sunday Service on May 16 due to graduations.

To celebrate the end of the semester and the completion of finals, we will be having a bar-b-que and Sports Nite this coming Friday. Come and enjoy some delicious bar-b-que and work off the tension that built up this week with a night of sports.

BBQ will start at 6:30pm at 2440 Dana Street (between Haste and Dwight).
Sports will be at the Willard Middle School Gym (2425 Stuart Street) starting at 9pm.

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