International Graduate Student Ministry – Gracepoint Berkeley
love locally, impact globally
Yes, it was great to watch the opening ceremony with BCSSA people. After our graduate student bible study on the UC Berkeley campus, our people (International Student Ministry) hurriedly joined the gathering at Sun HongKong restaurant where BCSSA people already crowded.
Though I am not a Chinese, when the national anthem of China resounded in the bird-nest stadium, when President Hu JinTao declared the opening of the Olympic games, when the Olympic torch in the main stadium finally received the flame that went around the globe, I could not but think about the difficult history that China went through for the past 100 years, which almost brought me to tears. As president Hu JinTao said, Chinese people have been preparing for this Olympics for a hundred years. A century of sorrow, shame, and confusion has passed. Westerners are no longer people whom they should feel intimidated about. China is truly coming out to the world as a nation of center. I wonder why God put me in Gracepoint Fellowship Church where a majority of the congregation members are ABC (American Born Chinese). May the LORD richly bless this nation and use her for his kingdom’s purpose as a final push!
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.
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Agreed. It’s been interesting to see the membership of Gracepoint Berkeley shift over the years from heavily Korean to pan-Asian to (now) more multi-ethnic. As an ABC myself, I feel like this is a very exciting time!