Living it Out Archive

  • Driven by Love

    Driven by Love

    Submitted by Shufei…Yesterday (6/29), Amanda and Baby Rebekah were discharged from Alta Bates Hospital. Allen and Amanda’s parents were so excited that everyone was going home. Sara Hong and I drove our respective vans to give everybody a ride home as well as transport all...

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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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  • Inheritance in the saints

    Inheritance in the saints

    Submitted by Sue… This past week we sent off Joohye at the airport to go to Texas for her T cell transplant treatment, and I was really amazed at how not only has God really been watching over her, but he gave us the opportunity...

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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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  • Angel Tree moments

    Angel Tree moments

    Submitted by Lin… Our small group sponsored a five year old boy, named X. When I went to the Angel Tree Christmas party, it turned out that his stepdad came. His stepdad was the one who was in prison and who wanted to make sure...

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  • True living water

    True living water

    Submitted by Suzanne… This past Tuesday we had our first historical prayer walk on the UCSD campus!  As we were all gathered around and praying for this campus I thought it was pretty amazing that so many of us from different ministries in our churches...

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  • 700 aunties and uncles

    700 aunties and uncles

    I was really touched by Nathan’s sharing yesterday, on the part 3 video of the grumpy old men talk show (to be posted soon on gracepointvideo.org), when he said that he has about 700 aunties and uncles who love him and take care of him. ...

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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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  • Full and satisfied

    Full and satisfied

    Submitted by Olivia (from Gracpoint Hsinchu)… The long awaited NTU (National Taiwan University) discussion small group “Pause” finally started on October 7, 2009 (clap + cheer)! Two years after Koinonia came to Hsinchu, Taiwan, we’re finally in a new city and new campus, making connections...

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  • Receiving 100 times as much

    Receiving 100 times as much

    Submitted by Helen… My 30th birthday was this past week and I was so grateful to God for all the ways that God has been faithful in my life for the 30 years.  I can’t believe that I’ve been here for the past 12 years. ...

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  • Thank you for giving to the Lord

    Thank you for giving to the Lord

    Submitted by Lauren… Two weeks ago we celebrated Grandma Bessie’s 100th birthday at Crown Bay nursing home. We first met Grandma Bessie Porteous about 1 year ago when we started elderly care ministry. Grandma Bessie was born in 1909 in Olympia WA. At the age...

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  • Go Longhorns!

    Go Longhorns!

    Submitted by David… Coming from California (Go Bears!), I knew football was big in Texas. However, what I experienced on Saturday for Koinonia’s UT vs. Texas Tech game viewing was simply incredible. The 605 house which was purchased just this year was jam-packed with over...

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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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  • Rock star to food server

    Rock star to food server

    One of the things I cherish about Gracepoint Berkeley’s New Student Welcome Night every year is that it really doesn’t matter who you are or what you do.  Each person matters, each person’s presence counts and what each of us does has rippling effects for...

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  • Let your glory fall on this place…

    Let your glory fall on this place…

    No time to write anything this week, so I’m just going to link to and post up some other things going on in our midst.  This past Saturday, after the prayer walk, we had a productive and fun Saturday workday at Northloop, doing everything from...

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  • Tell us your NSWN story

    Tell us your NSWN story

    These are stories from students about their NSWN experience.  Tell us yours! Submitted by Jane I came into my freshman year with a heavy heart, burdened by family troubles during high school and deep sins in my life. I came to New Student Welcome Night...

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  • What a journey

    What a journey

    It’ll be our 20th year anniversary this fall!  No, not for us and our husbands (it’s all of our 14th year anniversaries this year), but for my peers and I.  It was the Fall Retreat 1989 on Labor Day weekend of our freshman year when...

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  • D-House in Austin

    D-House in Austin

    The first time I set foot into Dana House in Berkeley was my freshman year 20 years ago this fall!  Yes, I am old now…  We had ice cream sundaes, went around and introduced ourselves with that adjective game and tried to remember each others’...

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  • Wait…

    Wait…

    Submitted by David… In high school I desperately wanted to immerse myself in pop culture by having a girlfriend, going to dances, and partying with my secular friends, and I remember the frustration of not being able give into my desires due to the many...

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  • Zooming out

    Zooming out

    Submitted by Ester… When approaching this year’s 30 Hour Famine, I have to honestly say that I didn’t have any particular plan for fundraising.  I had some ideas such as asking some of my friends and family, but I could hardly imagine talking to complete...

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  • Stepping stones

    Stepping stones

    Submitted by Gina… We had a time of memorializing some stones this past weekend at the Praxis Discipleship Retreat. (Joshua 4: “Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder…to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children...

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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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  • Pray for Camp Gracepoint

    Pray for Camp Gracepoint

    Submitted by James…   This was written a couple years ago about the FTS Retreat; please pray for the Camp Gracepoint retreat going on this weekend! This FTS retreat (2007) was quite memorable as it was the first time that the most of the Impact children...

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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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