A week of many Firsts

This week certainly has a lot of Firsts to it.  We had our First College Prayer meeting tonight at First Pres, 6:30 pm - 8 pm... I thought there'd be a lot of room to spread out, but it was still pretty packed.  

Here's all the neat news about what's going on this week:

• Wednesday, 6:15 PM Frosh smallgroup Course 101.  We're meeting in 233 Dwinelle, and will have some snacks during Course 101, and will have dinner afterwards.  For Course 101, prepare Intro week.  It's only about 5 pages so it shouldn't take too long.
  
• Friday Homegroup dinner & bible study!  In lieu of normal Koinonia bible studies that we had last semester, we're all breaking up into much smaller groups.  Our entire homegroup--seniors, sophomores, and freshmen--will gather together at Ben's new house.  Seniors are in charge of dinner (yum), so if you want to help get in touch w/ them.  Wenjie-man is going to take care of rides, so if you think you're going to get left behind, send Wenjie an email.  We'll do dinner together, have bible study by classes (bring your DTs!), and then we'll have a surprise...
  
• If you want to be a part of Gracepoint Training School (GTS), it starts this Sunday, 2/10, 10 am - 11:30 am.  You can get class descriptions and signup online for: Old Testament Survey, New Testament Survey, Church History, Apologetics, Tough Questions, and more.
  
• You've all heard of Ko-Ops, which is shorthand for Koinonia Operations.  Suzanne sent an email asking people if they want to help.  If so, you just need to show up at the YWCA, Fridays, 2-4 pm.  For more info, sign up online at our website.  Ko-Ops folks are the ones who do the background images for Prologue, take care of our Koinonia website, and help w/ other publication needs.
  
• Next week, Valentine's Day, 2/14 (Thursday), we're going to join our church's annual tradition of participating in The Valentine's Day of Compassion.  John Cai and Steve Choi are in charge and more info should be coming on the blog and over email.  Basically, we'll join other smallgroups to go out to different shelters and convalescent homes throughout the Bay Area to show Christ's love on a day which has had its meaning utterly twisted.  Love isn't the cheap stuff out there propagated by Hallmark.  Love is something God has created and demonstrated, and it's something He calls us to live out for others.
  

Guess that's all for now.  That's an awful lot, but I figure ya'll are smart people and can figure it out.