ABSK Grad Ministry

Hope all of you had a great week. Some sisters started the week by joining Komen Race for the Cure last Sunday. It is a 5 kilometer run/wall to celebrate the breast cancer survivors and raise awareness for the fight against breast cancer. Nearly 26,000 people participated and $2.8 million were raised. I´m sure the money will be spent for good causes.

Today we had another bible study in PV lounge at 7:30 pm. I was excited since there was a new member joining in our bible study. It was Jennifer who used to be in our group. She was in a grad group as a staff for a while but now the grad group and ISM are combined so we get to see her every Friday. Hope more people join in our bible study next week.
There were a couple of announcements today. We used to have a snack first before the bible study but we decided to do the bible study first and then have a fellowship. I think it was good that way. After the bible study today, we had small talks and watched Angel´s baseball game for about an hour, still the night was young. Some discussed the possibility to go to the ARC after the bible study and have sports fellowship sometime. I think this new timing schedule will allow us to have more flexibility. Another announcement is about consolidation of the ISM and grad group. Soon I´ll make another website for our new group.

Regarding the bible study, we studied the same text as last week from different perspective. Last week, D. JDSN focused on the importance of God´s vision. This week, I think the focus is on the life of a christian. Genesis 15 captures the snapshop of christian experience. Although there´s a happy ending in the vision, suffering follows in a christian life. In the text, God promised that he would bring back the descendents in the fourth generation to the promised land. The previous generations could not see the promise was achieved. Without the belief in eternity, it would have been really tough to keep the faith in such a harsh situation.
But we need to know that God´s promise is a very serious one and he fulfills the promise. He is solid as a rock. That´s why we need to put our faith in Him than anything else. He is our great reward and great protector. Even in the time of suffering, if we believe in Him, we have a great hope because God fulfills all his promises.

A great bible study again today although I couldn´t delve in detail here like D. JDSN did for the group.
Have a good weekend!