Weeks so far...

The mid semester break has finally got to its end. Time to pack those books in our bags, walking fron one end to another and sitting in front of the computer screen straining our eyes with piles of readings, resources and announcement from CECIL. A new semester has arrived and time to go back to uni!. Some were sighing but some were excited.

Let me start off with orientation week. First of all, on behalf of AOCF, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Wilson and Regina for being the main organiser during the week. Regina has been spending all her time designing the flyers and delegating members to help out at the booth while Wilson has constantly being efficient throughout the week. This guy never turns up late and very responsible for making sure everything went smoothly. So good job to both of you. What amazed me was this time, there were more people came and help out at the booth. These people were not shy giving out flyers, lollys and milo to people walking pass and whenever they're free, they chose to stay at the booth. I'm impressed that most of the first years actually stood up and help at the booth. Great work people.

As for Friday meetings, Nigel Pollock came all the way from Wellington to Auckland and joined AOCF to give a talk on what is the purpose of being a Christian in campus. How do you find about the talk? Did any points made by Nigel hit you at some point? I know there was one point he mentioned that strucked me a bit. He said " Go back and think of who do we have in mind that we want to share the gospel with? Or sow seeds with". It strucked me because I was thinking whether have I actually done such thing to my non-Christian friends. It is hard to share the gospel with people that does not believe in God at the first place. But hey, in the gospel of Matthew, God calls us to be the salt and light of the world ( Matthew 5:13-16). So why not we step up and share something about God to our non Christian friends. At first, of course, it is hard but I guess we will never know until we actually try it out.

On the second week, impact group kicked off with bonding session among members. Elena's impact group had steamboat at Michelle's place on Monday night. What a night. We ate lots of food but it was lots of work. Some people were non stop stirring the soup while some just cannot stop laughing out loud. I guess it is a good thing. They enjoyed themselves and can see that the relationship among members were close. Secondly was a joined dinner between Bennie's and Raymond's impact group. We had potluck in the chapel itself. Food was great. We get to taste some home cook food. Not to forget some nice bbq pork and roast duck. Yuuumm!!. After dinner, we played boardgames and enjoyed ourselves a lot. Taboo was rather intensed. Bolderdash was funny etc etc. Haha. Unbelievable turn out actually. Speaking of impact groups, hopefully you signed up for the impact group times as stated in the newsletter.

Friday meeting on the 2nd week was on evangelism. The speaker was Graeam from Auckland Chinese Presbyterian Church. In the gospel, the classic example is the parable of the seed. When we go out sowing seeds, some may accept it, some may reject, some just couldn't be bothered. It is not necessary street evangelism that we're talking about. You can spread the gospel to your friends or even your family. Jesus died on the cross for our sins so that we could have eternal life. When Jesus was out there preaching, some people rejected Him but He still constantly spreading the word. His 12 disciples were chosen to sow seeds. As these seeds were sown on good ground, it produce fruits. It multiples!. I once attended to this church service and there was this preacher named Chris Hill. He said " Quantity is not the issue. Majority doesn't mean you're right." So even if there is not many people who chose to believe in the good news, at least there are still who believes eventhough they may be small in quantity. Also, what makes us not wanting to go out and sow seeds? Do we have any other better things to do? Or we just don't want to get involved due to the fact you don't like the feeling of being rejected? If we do not share our faith, how does people know that God really works in us?

That was second week. So what do you think of the first and second week? Any feedbacks? Haha. Feel free to comment on this post regarding what happened on the past weeks in this semester. Other than that, that is all from me. Take care and God bless.


Kelvin