Last Friday’s Epic meeting brought many new faces, who enjoyed the meeting’s live band, video features, icebreaker, and introductions by our group’s staff director, John, and student president, Billy. I was leading worship with a praise team consisting of half old members, half new, and while rehearsal last week was a real challenge, we had [...]
1Sep10
Mid-week update
27Aug10
An Epic good time
This evening we will hold our first large-group meeting of fall 2010, now known as “Epic.” When we renamed the meeting from Turning Point to Epic near the end of last semester, the staff and student leaders agreed that it better reflected our affiliation with the Epic Movement; it also gives the meeting a more [...]
19Aug10
First staff meeting, fall 2010
Students are moving in at the end of this week and it’s about time for fall semester to begin again. We held our first AACF/Epic PSU staff meeting last night at the Simon ranch and had a good time discussing our summers, our thoughts for the upcoming semester and reviewing what was already well-planned-out by [...]
24Jul10
Summer rolls on
As summer progresses, with its stifling July (and soon, August) heat and vacations beginning and ending, AACF kind of peters out and becomes a bit dormant until the fall. This is not the ideal, and it’s not the same every summer. This summer, a large outflux of students in the beginning of July as well [...]
16Apr10
The new media
One of my roles in Asian American Christian Fellowship is to keep our online presence up to date. AACF’s web site is the “official” source of news and event information but certainly not the only one, and not the most read. Weekly, the student VP of AACF, Aimee, gathers all the information she can find [...]
10Sep09
Turning Point, Bowling, Altoona
The band sets up before our large-group meeting, Turning Point, last Friday. Simon, Tim and Andrew are on time and ready for the meeting to start. Afterwards, we went to the bowling alley for a traditional beginning-of-the-year social. Also last week, members of our staff team (Simon, Stacy, Daphne and Sandy; John was the photographer) [...]
23Jun09
Software update
Often when people update their blog software, they post about it. Why? I think it’s just to try out the new blog software. That’s what I am doing. WordPress 2.8. Same old simple theme, though there seem to be a great number to choose from. I might venture out and change my image a bit. [...]
22May09
Spring recap
I think that one of the hardest, or most forgotten about, parts of ministry is reporting on it. There’s a strong desire when experiencing good ministry, seeing God at work, to keep pushing forward. God’s working here; let’s not waste any time; let’s go! But it is honoring to God to reflect on His goodness [...]
9Dec08
Wrapping up fall 2008
It’s hard to believe that the fall semester is already coming to an end. In November, the Asian Tea House drew a crowd of over 150 students who were interested in free bubble tea and discussions on Asian American culture. AACF’s student members were there to facilitate and, in some cases, engage patrons in spiritual [...]
1Nov08
October recap
We had a great time at Camp Mount Luther in mid-October at our fall retreat. I was blessed to serve with our praise team throughout the weekend. I should mention that much of what happens at the retreat, like most other aspects of AACF, is student-run. Our students take care of the set-up, tear-down, logistics, [...]