ISC Friday Night Fellowship

Entries from February 2007

ISC social outing: Rodeo Sunday on March 11 !! Invite your friends…

February 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Howdy ISC friends!!

We are having a social outing to the Rodeo show in Austin on March 11, Sunday afternoon, the first weekend of Spring Break.If you are interested in joining us, you will have to secure your tickets BEFORE THIS FRIDAY!!

The ticket will be just $5!! And we encourage you to invite your friends along! (The Rodeo fair and show tickets together are worth $40. Our ministry is sponsoring $35.)

Reply to Cliff Holubec cliffh@isc-austin.org about how many tickets you want and bring the $$ on Friday night discussion or directly to him before Friday.

Or you can pay using PayPal by paying to medison_ma@hotmail.com and send a message to sheng.ma@mail.utexas.edu about the transaction.

More information can be checked up on this website:
http://www.rodeoaustin.com/

Remember, secure your tickets BEFORE THIS FRIDAY, or you’ll miss this great deal and fun event! (Transportation will be provided)

YEE HAA!!


Best regards,

Teh-Sheng(Sean) Ma
Institute for Neuroscience
The University of Texas at Austin
sheng.ma@mail.utexas.edu
c: (512) 796 – 2915

Categories: Special Events

ISC Furniture & Loan program now has a new home …. and needs your help!

February 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

furniture.pnghey ISC friends,

Most of you might heard of the Furniture & Loan service that we provide for International students.

It’s a free service that loans out furniture to students that don’t have the resources to buy furniture during their study here at UT.

More info can be found here: http://www.isc-austin.org/furniture/

Recently, thanks to our faithful God, we have received resources to purchase 2 large storage containers and UT’s permission to place them on site of Colorado Apartments on Lake Austin Blvd., where most UT international students live in. This enable this program to strategically focus International Students living on the sites of Gateway, Colorado, and Brackenridge Apartments. It also reduces the logistic cost to move furniture from the old storage area into the students’ hands.

This Saturday morning, we are moving all of the furniture we have from the old storage area down south to the new storage containers in Colorado Apartments. We would definitely appreciate if you are willing to donate your muscle time, either at the upload end down south, or at the download end in Colorado.

Austin Bush, who is the Director of this program, will be the contact person if you’d like to help us!! His email is abush@austin.utexas.edu , or call him at 507-9021. Here’s more details from him about the help he needs on Saturday morning.

Just a quick note on the furniture loan Saturday:

  • We need people available to help load the truck at the Oak Hill storage area. I will be picking up the UHaul truck around 9:30 to 10am, so I’ll need two other people to help.
    • Sean, you can try to see if David or your roommate is available.
    • I’ll see if George (someone that I have delivered furniture to) is available to help out.
    • Once we figure out who is able to help out, then we can decide on a meeting time. I could pick you up if need be, but it would need to be early (8:45 or so).
  • Cliff will be at the Colorado apartments in the morning fixing up the holes in one of the storage containers.
    • Cliff, let us know if you want somebody there helping you, and if so, what time works for you.
  • We’ll be unloading the UHaul truck somewhere between 11 and noon, I would guess. Probably closer to noon. It might take an hour or so.
    • Rotimi, can you see if Millie or Michael is available to help us unload and get organized? We would need her help around 11:30 or so to noon.
    • I’ll follow up with Cesar & Adrianna and Charles (someone that I delivered furniture to), who live at Brackenridge, to see if they can help out also.
    • Wenrong, you are free to join us if you are available Saturday morning (and please let Finlan know as well)


 

 

We love, because He first loved us, (1 John 4:19)

 

 

Teh-Sheng Ma

I SC Friday Night Fellowship
http://isconnect.wordpress.com/

 

 

ISC Friday Night Fellowship meets weekly at

Wesley House in West Campus area

2202 Nueces St. (Intersection of 22nd & Nueces St.)

Below is the link to Google map:

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Categories: Special Events

ISC Friday Night Fellowship: Dumpings and Discussion

February 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
How are you?
I hope you’ve enjoyed the beautiful spring weather these days :)

Come back to our cozy home Wesley House this Friday evening and celebrate Chinese New Year with us!

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* Dinner
* Discussion
* Calendar for Spring o7 on ISC website
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Dinner begins at 6:30pm
Mr. Wang, Boren’s dad, is very kind to cook dinner for us this Friday. Join us for some great homemade Chinese dumplings to celebrate the New Year! In Chinese tradition, people consider the shape of a dumpling is similar to that of a gold nugget at ancient times, so this particular food is a symbol of good fortune. Please come and be a part of this wonderful blessing :)

Discussion
This week we’ll take a look into the meaning of baptism as well as why and how those who follow Jesus have chosen to experience it.

Opening Question:
What would it take for you to be moved into action to do something that you had never considered doing before?
Can you think of a time in your life when this happened?   Explain..

Scripture:
Acts 8:26-38 and Romans 6:1-14

Calendar for Spring 07 on ISC website
Want to know more about our fellowship’s calendar for this semester? Check out our ISC website! You will find information regarding the discussion topic for each week, small group gatherings, community outreach, social event, etc.
Here is the link:
http://www. isc-austin.org/smallgroups/

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Look forward to seeing you.
Feel free to bring your friends/family too~

Warm blessings,
WenRong
I SC Friday Night Fellowship

http://isconnect.wordpress.com/

ISC Friday Night Fellowship meets weekly at
Wesley House in West Campus area
2202 Nueces St. (Intersection of 22nd & Nueces St.)
Below is the link to Google map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2202+nueces+st,+austin,+tx&spn=0.009734,0.014840&hl=en

Categories: Weekly Announcement

Wishing you a Happy Year of the Pig!!

February 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friends at ISC!!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
Wishing you prosperity at the year of the PIG!!
Eat much! Sleep much! Earn much!! :D

Happy Pig Year!

Best regards,


Teh-Sheng(Sean) Ma

Institute for Neuroscience
The University of Texas at Austin
sheng.ma@mail.utexas.edu
c: (512) 796 – 2915

Categories: Special Events

ISC Friday Night Fellowship: meet at Cowboy Breakfast this Saturday

February 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
How are you? I hope you all had fun last week doing fun stuff in your small group get-together :)

Today is Valentine’s Day. No matter whether your special someone is with you and no matter whether you have that someone, we wish you a very lovely day and a heart to give thanks to those who cherish and love you in your life. Also, this coming Weekend is Chinese New Year (the Year of PIG). May all of you Xin-Nian-Kuai-Le (Happy New Year)!

This Friday night (Feb 16) we won’t have our regular meeting at Wesley House. Instead, we will meet on Saturday morning at UT Brackenridge Apartment for the Cowboy Breakfast event. Please see below for more details and contact me or your small group leaders if you have any question!

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* Family Housing Cowboy Breakfast
* Regular meeting resume at Wesley House on Feb 23
* Calendar for Spring o7 on ISC website


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Family Housing Cowboy Breakfast
When: 10am-1pm, Saturday Feb 17

Where: Brakenridge Apartments, one of UT’s student dormitories on Lake Austin Blvd and near Cafe Mozart.
After you enter the apartment complex, there’ll be signs to direct you to the gathering place. Our group will meet at 10am by the chuck wagon.

What: Come enjoy breakfast in a cowboy style and family-friendly activities, and meet old and new friends! While you are there, please be available to serve if Cliff or any small group leaders need your assistance with the event.

How to get there: Since there is no UT shuttle available on Saturday, please contact your small group leaders for transportation arrangement if you can’t get there by yourself. If this is the first time you join our group, please contact me (WenRong) at wenjune.chen@gmail.com

Regular Meeting resume at Wesley House on Feb 23
Due to small group gatherings and the family housing event mentioned above, we won’t meet as the whole group at Wesley House till Friday,Feb 23. Remember to mark on your calendar so you won’t miss any meeting!

Calendar for Spring 07 on ISC website
Want to know more about our fellowship’s calendar for this semester? Check out our ISC website! You will find information regarding the discussion topic for each week, small group gatherings, community outreach, social event, etc.
Here is the link:
http://www. isc-austin.org/smallgroups/

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Look forward to seeing you.
Feel free to bring your friends/family too~

Warm blessings,
WenRong
I SC Friday Night Fellowship
http://isconnect.wordpress.com/
      
ISC Friday Night Fellowship meets weekly at
Wesley House in West Campus area
2202 Nueces St. (Intersection of 22nd & Nueces St.)
Below is the link to Google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2202+nueces+st,+austin,+tx&spn=0.009734,0.014840&hl=en

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Categories: Weekly Announcement

ISC Friday Night Fellowship: Small group get-together this week

February 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
Some friends just informed me that they didn’t receive the weekly announcement I sent out this past Wednesday. So here it is again. If you did receive it already, please ignore the following message. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your time :)
WenRong

Dear friend,
How are you?
Have you enjoyed the clear blue sky and the warm spring breath these days?

This Friday night we won’t have our regular meeting at Wesley House. Instead, each small group will have their own gathering at the place and time they choose. Please contact your small group leaders for more details!

If this Friday is the first time you visit our fellowship, there’ll still be a small group meeting at Wesley House and you’re more than welcome to stop by! Please contact Rotimi at
<rojifinni@mail.utexas.edu>
for details about meeting hour.

If you haven’t been to our meetings for a while, or just don’t know which small group you belong to , feel free to contact any leader listed below and join his/her group outing this time.

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* Small Group Get-together this Friday
* Family Housing Cowboy Breakfast
* Regular meeting resume at Wesley House on Feb 23
* Calendar for Spring o7 on ISC website


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* Small Group Get-Together
This Friday each small group will have its own get-together. Here are the group leaders whom you can contact for information about when, where, and how they will meet:

Teh-Sheng <sheng.ma@mail.utexas.edu>
Ming < hugonmy@gmail.com> (with Michael)
Rotimi
<rojifinni@mail.utexas.edu> (with Kurt and Susan)
WenRong <wenjune.chen@gmail.com> (with Tim, Courtney, Austin, Rochelle)

If you have any problem contacting those leaders, you can email Cliff at < cliffh@isc-austin.org> and he will help you get a hold of them.

Family Housing Cowboy Breakfast
Next Saturday (Feb 17), our fellowship will be helping out in the event of UT Family Housing Cowboy Breakfast. Join us to serve this community for fun family-friendly activities, and to meet new friends too!
When: 10am-1pm, Feb 17
Where: Brakenridge Apartments, one of UT’s student dormitories on Lake Austin Blvd and near Cafe Mozart.

Regular Meeting resume at Wesley House on Feb 23
Due to small group gatherings and the family housing event mentioned above, we won’t meet as the whole group at Wesley House till Friday,Feb 23. Remember to mark on your calendar so you won’t miss any meeting!

Calendar for Spring 07 on ISC website
Want to know more about our fellowship’s calendar for this semester? Check out our ISC website! You will find information regarding the discussion topic for each week, small group gatherings, community outreach, social event, etc.
Here is the link:
http://www. isc-austin.org/smallgroups/

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Look forward to seeing you.
Feel free to bring your friends/family too~

Warm blessings,
WenRong
I SC Friday Night Fellowship
http://isconnect.wordpress.com/
      
ISC Friday Night Fellowship meets weekly at
Wesley House in West Campus area
2202 Nueces St. (Intersection of 22nd & Nueces St.)
Below is the link to Google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2202+nueces+st,+austin,+tx&spn=0.009734,0.014840&hl=en

* If you no longer wish to receive this weekly announcement, please reply with the word unsubscribe as the email subject. We will take out your email address from our list. Thanks!

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unsubscribe     isc -fridaynight

Categories: Weekly Announcement