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ISC Friday Night Fellowship: Dinner and Discussion

July 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
How are you?
Hope you’ll keep dry and safe through these rainy days in Austin!

Stay out of rain and join us this Friday for great meal prepared by our chef Cliff and discussion over how to handle conflict in our relationship with others.

This Friday at Wesley House
Dinner will begin at 6:30pm
Cliff will be cooking this Friday, and he’d like to keep the menu a surprise for you! Come see and taste his great cooking

Discussion from 7:30 to 8:30pm
This Friday we will talk about Conflict and how to use it to build our relationship with other people. Please read chapter 6: COMMUNITY IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR: CONFLICT in the book <Everybody’s normal till you get to know them>. Here take a look at some great quotes from this chapter:

Communities need tensions if they are to grow and deepen. Tensions come from conflicts… A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

The greatest crimes against the kingdom of God are crimes against love.

Anger often contains an element of self-righteousness that causes us to want to blame the other person and avoid owning responsibility.

Avoidance kills community. Avoidance causes resentment to fester inside you.

Conflict is inevitable. Resentment is optional.

In conflict, the simplest guideline to reach reconciliation is to approach the other people the way you would want to be approached in their place.

To know more about this book, please visit our blog, or go to this following Amazon link:
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ISC Furniture Loan Program
Do you or your friend need furniture but don’t have the budget for it? We might just have something for you! Our Furniture LoanProgram, directed by Austin, is aimed to help students who have limitedbudget for furniture but are in need of it by providing used furniturefor free. We will also help with delivery!
For more information, please contact Austin at abush@austin.texas.edu.
Austinhas created a website with all the pictures of furniture organized andposted, and you might just find something you’ve been looking for~!

Look forward to seeing you this Friday at Wesley House.
Feel free to bring your friends/family too~

Blessings,
WenRong
ISC FridayNight 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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REQUEST FOR YOUR HELP (Welcome to Texas)

July 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
How are you?
Now it’s approaching to the end of July, which means more and more new comers will arrive here and begin their study in UT as well as their life in this city. To welcome them with Texas-style hospitality, we’ll be putting together the annual event Welcome to Texas which will take place in mid August. Please join us to serve and host these new friends from all around the world!

See below for details about this great opportunity to meet new international friends and help them connected:

Volunteer / Servants Needed

Table Host for Bar-B-Q
August 17
5:30—8:30 pm
BSM Building (2204 SanAntonio Street)

Required Training
Friday August 10th 6:30—8:30 pm
Includes Dinner / Location near campus TBA

The Table Host will sit at a table with new students / making themfeel welcome / informing them of ways they can get connected intocommunity on campus / and helping everyone at the table engage inconversation. The training on August 10th will provide allthe help you need to be an effective Table Host.

We need 50 Table Host for the Bar-B-Q and we hope that you asparticipants in the ISC Community will serve the new students in thisimportant role.

Email: cliffh@isc-austin.org to confirm yourhelping.

Thanks a lot!

WenRong
International Student Connection

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ISC Friday Night Fellowship: Dinner and Discussion

July 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
Come join us for homemade Chinese/Taiwanese dishes this Friday and discussion over how to read people and respond to them appropriately.

This Friday at Wesley House
Dinner will begin at 6:30pm
WenRong will be cooking for you this Friday! Here is the menu:

Entree: Ma-Po Tofu, Chicken with Green Pepper and Fermented Black Beans, Stir-fry Veggies, with Rice
Dessert: Chinese-style Almond Flavor Gelatin Dessert, topped with mixed fruit

Discussion from 7:30 to 8:30pm
This Friday we will be exploring the concept of EMPATHY. Read chapter 5: THE ART OF READING PEOPLE in the book <Everybody’s normal till you get to know then> before you come if you can. Take a look at some great quotes from this chapter:

Relational intelligence can be learned. Develop this skill, get it right, and you will have opportunities to influence, comfort, challenge, and love people on a regular basis.
We can live without trying to make sure we control how other people are thinking about us. We can live without winning every argument, without powering up over every decision, without always drawing attention to ourselves.
The most important intimacy-building skill in the world: listening.
Attention is the most valuable currency we have.
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt anybody with it...Being fully right rarely brings as much as life to people as simply being human.
You are a guardian of the human spirit. You have the power to manipulate and coerce if you want to. You can avoid and ignore if you choose. But You can also ennoble and inspire.

To know more about this book, please visit our blog, or go to this following Amazon link:
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Feel free to bring your friends/family too~

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ISC Friday Night Fellowship: Dinner and Discussion

July 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
It seems the summer just began! As the season gets more and more like a typical Texas summer, why not come chill with us, having a great dinner and conversation on Friday evening?

This Friday at Wesley House
Dinner will begin at 6:30pm
Courtneywill be our chef of the week. Here is the menu:

Raspberry Chipotle Pork Tenderloin
Pasta Salad
Mixed Greens
Brownie

Discussion from 7:30 to 8:30pm
This Friday we will discuss two concepts in our relationship with other people: Acceptance vs. Condemnation. Read chapter 5: Put Down Your Stones: Acceptance in the book <Everybody’s normal till you get to know them> and/or John chapter 8 before you come if you can. Here are some great quotes from this chapter:

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
Accepting a person is not the same thing as approving all of one’s behavior. Nor is acceptance the same as toleration.
Failure to confront, to speak truth in love, can ultimately be as fatal to the growth of community as judgmentalism.
We can train ourselves to hold people responsible and discuss their failures with them without attacking their worth as human beings or marking them as rejects.

You can borrow (for free) or purchase (6 dollars per copy) the book from us when we meet at Wesley House. To know more about this book, please visit our blog or go to this following Amazon link:
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Rock Climbing
Due to the excessive amount of rain we had have during the past few weeks, we had to postpone our rock climbing to later this month. Please stay tuned to find out the new schedule for this outing

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ISC Friday Night Fellowship: No group meeting this week & Update about rock climbing

July 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Dear friend,
Happy 4th July!
Let’s celebrate the blessings we’ve received through this country, no matter where you are from~

Because of some other function Wesley House will have throughout the day, we won’t meet as a big group this Friday. Instead, your small group leaders will inform you if there is any social outing planned out for this coming weekend. Stay turned and check your emails as many times as you’d like!

Also, due to the huge amount of rain we’ve received lately, we think it’s safer to have our rock climbing postponed till later this month. Sorry for the inconvenience! But, hey, we know you will definitely understand that safety should remain as the first priority!

We will meet at Wesley House again next Friday! Hope you’ll have a wonderful 4th July weekend~

ISC Furniture Loan Program
Do you or your friend need furniture but don’t have the budget for it? We might just have something for you! Our Furniture LoanProgram, directed by Austin, is aimed to help students who have limitedbudget for furniture but are in need of it by providing used furniturefor free. We will also help with delivery!
You can register and put your request at
http://www.utaab.org/furniture.
For more information, please contact Austin at abush@austin.texas.edu.

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