A message from our 30 Hour Famine coordinator:
Hi everyone,
Thanks for starving so that other may eat!   I personally felt thankful that i can part-take in suffering in a little way, as Jesus gives out invitation to follow him daily!  Hope you all had fun raising money for this good cause!
One last reminder:  Please don’t forget [...]

Dear Friends,
UPDATE: The students and faculty of Christ Bible Seminary had a wonderful retreat last week. Joe was able to lead a seminar on ‘Grace and Thanksgiving’ for all the students, and also spend more time getting to know them. Juliet has started part-time language school, and Isaiah’s yochien has started up again. Juliet has [...]

Just got word that over 300 students attended the Christmas Celebration in Taiwan!  Amazing answer to prayer.  The program went well, and afterwards, they stayed to enjoy mingling and talking over snacks until past 10pm.  Thank you for your prayers!

Thank you very much for all your prayers for our very first InterHigh Camp.  We had 20 non-element students.  God answered our prayers in many ways.  Despite the newcomers, their presence didn’t affect the atmosphere but the new comers quickly felt like one of our element members.  The InterHigh students were a warm presence and [...]

For this year’s new year’s service, we wanted to give many of you a chance to share how you personally experienced God this past year.
Unlike the thanksgiving retreat where we focused on how God worked at and through our church, we wanted to focus on how YOU personally experience God i.e not focusing on our [...]

Merry Christmas!  Attached you’ll find our December newsletter!
Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a fruitful New Year,
Bill & Jan

Dear Friends,
UPDATE: We have experienced our 2nd earthquake here in Japan today at 5am. (http://tinyurl.com/kvfh82) It lasted more than 30 seconds, and it felt like a giant hand was shaking our entire house. Thankfully nothing was damaged and none of us were injured. We’ve had much ministry activity the last month, and have been able [...]

Gracepoint Fellowship Berkeley will be hosting AADP (Asian American Donor Program) as they hold a Bone Marrow Drive at 1st Presbyterian Church gym this Friday, 7/24, from 5-6:45pm.  Please help out by adding yourself to the database.   Download the flyer.

We finally found a name for our old FTS retreat.  Since our 6th graders will be joining Element, the annual Gracepoint Fellowship Church Joyland FTS retreat is no longer fourth through sixth, but just fourth-fifth.  The dates are:

When:  Thu, 7/9 – Sun, 7/12
Location:  Sierra Lodge & Barn
Speaker:  Mr. Joshua Wang (please pray for him!)