International Graduate Student Ministry – Gracepoint Berkeley
love locally, impact globally
Are you an international student? Will you be flying into San Francisco Airport or Oakland International Airport to attend classes at UC Berkeley? For visiting scholars, visiting students and graduate students, IGSM will provide airport pickup service. Please fill out this form at least a few days before you depart so that we can contact you to arrange a pickup. If you are interested in this service, please signup below: Read more »
In the second installment of the “Pursuit of Happiness” series, Matthew talked about how happiness is not something that we are really good at predicting so we end up thinking something will make us happy even though it will not. Furthermore, he adds that happiness doesn’t come from our circumstances, but our character. Using the story in Luke 15, he talks about what will really bring happiness, which it turns out is a living as we were designed – in connection with God and pursuing a life following Him.
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Teaching from 2 Thessalonians 1, Chul talked about the important topic of how faith and love are meant to grow because Christian life is about relationships and in relationships things grow. He talked about the reasons why some people don’t grow and some do and provided some practical guidelines for how we can grow in our faith and love.
To learn the answer to some of these questions, click the link below to hear the podcast:
6-Week English Class on English Pronunciation, Intonation and Discussion & Presentation Skills
For International Graduate Students, Post Docs and Visiting Scholars
Instructors: Certified ESL teachers and UCB graduate students (native speakers)
Duration: 6 weeks from 8/15/10 to 9/19/10
Schedule:
Week 1) 8/15 Sunday(9-11am),
Week 2) 8/22 Sunday(9-11am), 8/25 Wednesday (7-8:30pm)*
Week 3) 8/29 Sunday(9-11am), 9/1 Wednesday (7-8:30pm)*
Week 4) 9/5 Sunday(10:30am-12:30pm) <– Note: Change in Time
Week 5) 9/12 Sunday(10:30am-12:30pm) <– Note: Change in Time
Week 6) 9/19 Sunday(10:30am-12:30pm) <– Note: Change in Time
Location: 2518 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA (Telegraph & Durant, 2nd floor of Buffet Town)
Wednesday classes will be at 109 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
There is a nominal fee of $20 cover the printing costs for the course material and also for refreshments.
Please sign up below (if on homepage, click on Read More) to register for the class. Read more »
Sorry for the late post of the pictures. We had a great time at Yosemite this past Memorial Day. What was your favorite part? Feel free to comment. Read more »
In Part 2 of his message series on prayer, Chul Kim reviews our need to constantly pray for grace and peace and discusses the power of prayer through 1-2 Thessalonians. With a focus on 1 Thessalonians 1:3-5, we learn about the impact of enriched relationships on an enriched prayer life and growing conviction in our faith. How can we form deeper conviction and growth in the larger context of a Christian community?
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In the last installment of the “Help My Unbelief” series, Chul Kim first reviews the historical and circumstantial evidence for the Christian faith, and then discusses Apostle Paul’s conversion story in Acts 9:1-25 as a model of someone who “heard” God through life’s circumstances. Often times, our “How do you know?” and “What if…?” questions can drive us into skepticism ad infinitum, but if we listen for God through the immovable evidence of our own life, God can shed a light from Heaven to illuminate what he might want to say to us today.
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In Part II of the “Help My Unbelief” series, Chul discusses how we may bridge the gap between the undeniable and unexplainable things in our lives. How should we respond when something unexplainable happens? Could it be possible that we can of
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Join us for our weekly summer bible study in Alameda. We will have Bible Study starting with dinner at 7pm. Rides will be provided at 6:30pm from Barrows. Please contact Josiah Wernow [josiah.wernow at gmail] if you need a ride. Afterwards, for those taking Gracepoint Berkeley Multiply Your Talent, you will have over to Northloop.
Three Sundays (7/11, 7/18, 7/25)
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.)
Instructors: Certified ESL teachers or UCB graduate students, all native speakers
International Graduate Student Ministry (IGSM) is an official graduate student group at UC Berkeley. IGSM started in the fall of 2003 with the vision to help all UC Berkeley graduate students from various countries (including students from the United States) find out the true meaning and purpose of their lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of us also attend Gracepoint Berkeley, where Pastor Ed and Kelly Kang lead the ministry.
