Giving it All Archive

  • Salvation is Here

    Salvation is Here

    Submitted by Angela…This past Sunday was my first time at this nursing home, and the dining room where we hold Sunday services was packed to capacity. There were thirty grandpas and grandmas who came, and some even had to line up their wheelchairs along the...

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  • Building Each Other Up

    Building Each Other Up

    Submitted by Jacob…It was a great experience helping out with the Gracepoint Hsinchu retreat with my peers and hearing Andy preach in Chinese.  My peers and I have known each other since our freshman year of college (1996), and I think I can safely say...

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  • Hope Found in God

    Hope Found in God

    Submitted by Audrey…I’ve visited Grandma B at the local nursing home a few times before.  I am personally inspired by her great faith in God and am always blessed by our conversations.  During this visit, I was expecting her typical encouraging remarks like “May the...

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  • Celebration of Joy

    Celebration of Joy

    Submitted by Sue…On December 12, our children’s department held its annual Joyland Christmas Celebration.  Students from Joyland and Impact presented the Christmas story and its place in God’s plan for redeeming his people through skits, verse recitation, dazzling displays, and exciting music.  One thing we...

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  • Sharing God’s Heart

    Sharing God’s Heart

    Submitted by Michelle…On December 17, our Riverside team had the opportunity to do a community service project with some of our students.  Unbeknownst to us, Riverside has a community of special needs homes for children who were born to parents who suffered from substance abuse.  These children...

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  • Being who God called you to Be

    Being who God called you to Be

    Submitted by Ulia…A few weeks after we celebrated Grandma Bessie’s 101st birthday [link: http://www.gracepointstories.org/2010/09/a-picture-of-perseverence/], I ran into her son at the nursing home, and he handed me a letter.  The letter was addressed to Grandma Bessie from a woman named Eileen (see a copy of...

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  • What God has in store

    What God has in store

    Submitted by Alison…I can’t believe it’s only been a week since we welcomed the first group of freshmen arriving on campus last wednesday.  Those who were free helped them move in during the day, and then we had frisbee at night. We had only a...

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  • Interhigh Church Services

    Interhigh Church Services

    Submitted by Kevin… InterHigh Teachers and East Bay Korean Presbyterian Church Student, August 22, 2010 As Gracepoint’s Summer of Servanthood comes to a close, InterHigh is thankful for how God has been guiding our ministry and providing us with so many opportunities to serve youth...

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  • God at Work

    God at Work

    Submitted by Christina…This week at Life Lutheran Church, we had our second service with 8 youth students attending.  Most of the youth were returnees from last week, but we were also happy to see three new faces.  We started off our time together with an icebreaker....

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  • God will roll away the stone

    God will roll away the stone

    Submitted by May… Being able to go help the MN team settle in, I was able to get a front row seat of how God was actively answering prayers even before the team arrival date on June 8, 2010. It was especially timely and appropriate...

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  • A Chance to Serve

    A Chance to Serve

    Submitted by Khanh…On the warm, first Sunday morning of June, Azusa, Tiffany, Victoria and I arrived at Vietnamese Ministries for our first youth service in downtown Oakland. The sisters and I went into the building that was apparently home to churches of varied ethnicities. We...

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  • The Joy of Servanthood

    The Joy of Servanthood

    Submitted by Daniel… I am blessed by my mom’s servant-like attitude, and it gives me a window into the sheer joy of servanthood. For a few years now, she has been wanting to serve the handicapped or autistic children, spending her free time taking classes...

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  • Church Plant Commissioning Service – Gracepoint Riverside, San Diego, Minneapolis

    Church Plant Commissioning Service – Gracepoint Riverside, San Diego, Minneapolis

    This past week’s commissioning service held at Gracepoint Berkeley for our 48 church plant team members went by so quickly, I wanted to recap a bit so that we can all be blessed again through all that we experienced together. I wanted to encourage everyone...

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  • Lightning speed

    Lightning speed

    Just wanted to post some short sharings from some of our Austin members about the anniversary service this past week. Submitted by Bryan… This past weekend Gracepoint Austin celebrated its first anniversary.  What a year it has been!  It’s hard to imagine that just one...

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  • You feed them

    You feed them

    Being an introvert by nature, I feel much more at ease in one on one or smaller group settings, and my reaction to crowds is, “Get me outta here;” so one of the things that never ceases to amaze me is Jesus’ compassion on the...

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  • Doing LIFE in Texas

    Doing LIFE in Texas

    Submitted by Jackie… I can’t believe it’s only been about two months since Daryl and I moved to Austin. It’s been a whirlwind with Welcome Week, NSWN, DC outreach, Tex-Connect, LIFE groups…and just when I think we have some down time, we’re gearing up for...

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  • Doing the Famine Gracepoint Style

    Doing the Famine Gracepoint Style

    Submitted by Judy… Gracepoint Fellowship Church of Berkeley, CA had the privilege of participating in World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine for the second time this year. Starting in May, Gracepoint Fellowship Church members – from Pastor Ed and his wife Kelly Kang, to youth and college...

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  • Roll up your sleeves!

    Roll up your sleeves!

    Submitted by Kaitlyn… During the Christmas of 2007, I went on Gracepoint Fellowship Church’s mission trip to Hsinchu, Taiwan with about 80 other members of our church.  That was a very special mission trip because we were there to celebrate the inaugural of our church...

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  • My 15th NSWN

    My 15th NSWN

    Wanted to share this with NSWN right around the corner….     This past weekend (Sept 2008), I attended Gracepoint Fellowship Church’s New Student Welcome Night for the 15th time since I graduated college! And it never gets old. We do the same skit every year, but...

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  • Honduras SMT

    Honduras SMT

    Submitted by Daniel…   Thank you so much for praying for the Honduras mission trip.  It was a short but quite an intense trip, and we really felt your prayers. This year, there were 10 people from Gracepoint Berkeley who joined BMDMI for the Honduras medical...

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  • For the sake of the call

    For the sake of the call

    Submitted by Jason…   It’s been one year since our Austin team left from Gracepoint Berkeley… When I stop to think about it, so much of the world says that I shouldn’t give it all in anything that I do. The key to happiness is supposed...

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  • True bonding

    True bonding

    Submitted by Helen… I had a really good time at the interns retreat this past weekend. I was so thankful that I was able to go last minute. I was personally really blessed and challenged by the retreat (even though it wasn’t for me). The...

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  • Raising the walls

    Raising the walls

    Doing DT through Nehemiah last week reminded me of this story, submitted by Andy… In the book of Nehemiah, the walls of Jerusalem were broken down and its gates were destroyed by fire. Filled with anguish over the city, Nehemiah rallied the people to overcome...

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  • True tough guy

    True tough guy

    Submitted by Kan…   I have always known that Eugene has a long commute from Hsinchu to Taipei everyday, but I didn’t really know how bad this was until I had an internship in Taipei this past summer. I commuted with him on most days: we...

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  • Keys please?

    Keys please?

    Submitted by Ashley…    At Gracepoint Fellowship, you often hear stories about hard workers behind the scenes who make things happen especially for big events like G-live, NSWN, or JCC. Among this group are our weekly ImpACT and Joyland drivers who may very likely be...

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