Church in Berkeley and met great people
Today was a great day. Went to the Gracepoint Fellowship Church and found a lot of very welcoming people there. The pastor asked the congregation who was there for the first time and I was like one of the 5 people who stood up (the majority of the freshmen would only arrive the following week) Worship style at this church was contemporary but less noisy compared to City Harvest. I guess cultures of a church cannot be 100% similar everywhere. People here do not have the culture of raising up their hands during worship. Otherwise this church is not the usual warm-the-seat on Sundays church. It is a church with a reasonable commitment involved, with bible study groups and prayer meetings and campus outreaches so it ain’t a slack church, similar to City Harvest KL. I don’t know too much about it yet but this church seems right for me. I’ll stick around.
Instantly after the service a two people approached me and greeted me, and one of them brought me to meet some of his huge network of church friends. Then they brought me to the nearest hangout food joint and we have some drinks and lunch. Well we talked quite a bit, and they really made me feel comfortable.
One of them, Jeff, kindly invited me to dinner at his apartment (turned out later to be in another guy’s apartment, Michael) and they all cooked the meals in their own apartment and brought it there to have a mini dinner party. I must say that these guys can cook really well: kim chi fried rice, miso soup, chicken, vege and even a pancake with mushrooms. Most of them are already in their third year (junior) and they are around my age already. So I am pretty old in US standards, and should be in my third year by now, but oh well… who cares.
After dinner all ten of us guys played a game called King Kong & Shower (!!???) and I must say that these guys are a really fun batch to be with. Later we went to Yogurt Park which is a place selling frozen yogurt, and it tastes just like ice-cream. So yeah it has been really fortunate for me to bump into so many Christian guys in church and hang out with them all night. Really really nice people, that’s all I can say. I might be starting to sound like an American myself. Now it’s still like a kinda fake accent haha.
Thank God for putting great people along the way here since I arrived in Berkeley. Things are pretty good. Tomorrow there will be this International Student Orientation so I’d better get going and retire before it’s too late. Till later, ES.
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Hey Ern Sheong, sounds like you’re having a good time. Kinda wish I was there.
I believe you are an extremely capable person so despite how heavy your schedule seems to be, I’m sure you’ll have the wisdom & grace from God to go through college and grow to your fullest potential. All the best!
Hey Jasmine,
thanks for dropping by. and thanks for seeing me as a very capable person, although coming here did make me realize and see my many limitations.
I wish you all the best too in the path that you are pursuing. May He lead you on in all that you do and may you find great purpose and joy in your pursuits too.
ES