NEWSFLASH | Christmas Party | Friday 12/8 @6:30 pm | W20-407

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

Join us for dinner, carols and a 'white elephant' gift exchange as we celebrate the birth of Christ! This year, in addition to our usual Christmas worship medley, the Christian a cappella group Boston Found will be performing for us!

*For the gift exchange, please bring a casual wrapped gift below $10. Gift-wrapping materials will be supplied if needed. If you're looking for ideas, examples of gifts from past years have ranged from fun (e.g. games) to edifying (e.g. books), creative (e.g. coloring book) to pragmatic (e.g. rope). There will be extra gifts, so please come even if you can't bring one!

What: Christmas party

Where: W20-407

When: Friday, December 8, 6:30 pm

Contact: Steering Committee (mit-gcf-steer@mit.edu)

Announcements

• This Friday is the last large group for the year. During IAP and/or Spring (depending on people's preference), Kevin is offering the famous Mark Manuscript Bible Study. A tryout session will be on TUESDAY JAN. 9 AT 5 PM in the CFL (W11-080). Contact Kevin (ivcf@mit.edu) for more information including why it is famous!

• We will have our winter retreat in February during the President's Day weekend (2/16-18). Stay tuned for more details!

Prayer Square

• Pray that we may have the Spirit of Jesus Christ as we celebrate his first coming.

Spiritual Encouragement

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,

   and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

   the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

   the Spirit of counsel and might,

   the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see,

   or decide disputes by what his ears hear,

but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,

   and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;

  and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,

   and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,

   and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

   (Isaiah 11:1-15)

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NEWSFLASH | Prof. Cullen Buie | Friday 12/1 7:30pm | W20-491

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

Please join us for the final speaker large group of fall semester this Friday! We will be hearing from Prof. Cullen Buie from Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Buie is a wonderful speaker who we have had the privilege of hearing from several times in the past.

What: Prof. Cullen Buie

Where: W20-491

When: Friday, December 1 at 7:30 pm

Contact: Steering Committee (mit-gcf-steer@mit.edu)

Announcements

• Next Friday (12/8) will be our annual Christmas party, featuring worship, dinner, a performance by the Christian a cappella group Boston Found, and a fun 'white elephant' gift exchange. More details to be announced.
• Weekly prayer: come pray with us! Prayer requests also welcomed. Note: time is changed from Monday to Wednesday 11 am!
• Wednesdays 11-12, Basement of W11 (W11-080). 
• Contact: Grace (graceg@mit.edu) 
• Please email Grace if you want to attend the informal prayer meetings but your schedule does not allow you to meet regularly.

Prayer Square

• Pray that we have thankful hearts in all circumstances
  
• Pray for reconciliation, peace and understanding in our society.
  
• Pray that our desires may be aligned with God's desire for the world.

Spiritual Encouragement

Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me

    and the light become night around me,"

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

    the night will shine like the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

--Psalm 139:7-12

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NEWSFLASH | Thanksgiving Potluck | Thursday 11/23 @ 1 pm | Sidpac Owu Room

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

Come join us at our Thanksgiving Potluck this Thursday! Please invite your friends and labmates. It will be a great time with eating, games, and enjoying each others' company. Please RSVP here (but feel free to come even if you haven't RSVPed).

What: Thanksgiving potluck and games

Where: Sidney Pacific Owu Rom

When: Thursday, November 23, 1 pm

Contact: Steering Committee (mit-gcf-steer@mit.edu)

Announcements

• Weekly prayer: come pray with us! Prayer requests also welcomed. Note: time is changed from Monday to Wednesday 11 am!
  • Wednesdays 11-12, Basement of W11 (W11-080).
  • Contact: Grace (graceg@mit.edu)
  • Please email Grace if you want to attend the informal prayer meetings but your schedule does not allow you to meet regularly.

• A GCF Thanksgiving week tradition: the Grand Tour of Boston is Saturday. Far more than the Freedom Trail, learn about the history, art, architecture, and beauty of the birthplace of American independence… we will explore America's most interesting neighborhood (Beacon Hill), walk a piece of the Underground Railroad, and tread in the steps of the Sons of Liberty. We will leave at 9:45 am from in front of the inbound T in Kendall Sq, or you can meet us at 10 am at Park Street on the terrace between the T and Park Street Church. Return will be about 5 pm if you go the whole way. You will need comfortable walking shoes, money for lunch and snacks (pastry in the North End, etc.) and for 4 T fares if you do not have a pass. We will return partly by boat, which will be a little cooler and windier, so I recommend layering. With a week to go, the current weather forecast is for the mid-forties Fahrenheit. VERY IMPORTANT: our goal is to make it to Old Ironsides in time to go on board. As it is considered a national treasure, you must go through the equivalent of airport security to get on it. That means official ID is needed—a U.S. driver's license, or a passport for internationals. PLEASE RSVP on the Google doc so we don't leave without you!
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CkPqdgTck7cieS5zgjUhUtbnwQXKrIhUupoUoYVT_3M/edit?usp=sharing
• Veritas Forum Planners Needed: Veritas Forum is an event hosted on different campuses with the intention of asking life's hardest questions. The MIT event is a joint action of the different campus Christian groups. Planners are needed to help make this event a success. The event will likely take place in the mid spring, and the weekly time commitment is approximately 2 hours. Numerous perks will include (i) something you can put on your CV, (ii) interaction with MIT's Christian faculty, (iii) the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing you have participated in something bigger than yourself. If you are interested or have any questions please contact Carla Grobler (carlau@mit.edu).

Prayer Square

• Pray that we have thankful hearts in all circumstances.
• Pray for reconciliation, peace and understanding in our society.
• Pray that our desires may be aligned with God's desire for the world.

Spiritual Encouragement

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

-- Colossians 3:15-17

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NEWSFLASH | Faculty Dinner | W20-307 @7 pm

NEWSFLASH | Faculty Dinner | W20-307 @7 pm

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

Our fall semester's Faculty Dinner is this Friday November 17, 7pm in W20-307! The Faculty Dinner is a great opportunity to meet Christian professors at MIT and fellowship with them. Invite your friends and labmates, too!

Announcements

• Next week is Thanksgiving! If you are around, please join us for our sumptuous Thanksgiving Potluck where you can bring all your friends, games and appetite! RSVP here so we know about how many people to expect.

• Location: Sidpac Owu Room

• Time: 1 pm, 11/23 (Thanksgiving Day)

• Weekly prayer: come pray with us! Prayer requests also welcomed. Note: time is changed from Monday to Wednesday 11 am!

• Wednesdays 11-12, Basement of W11 (W11-080).
  Contact: Grace (graceg@mit.edu)

• Please email Grace if you want to attend the informal prayer meetings but your schedule does not allow you to meet regularly.

• Veritas Forum Planners Needed: Veritas Forum is an event hosted on different campuses with the intention of asking life's hardest questions. The MIT event is a joint action of the different campus Christian groups. Planners are needed to help make this event a success. The event will likely take place in the mid spring, and the weekly time commitment is approximately 2 hours. Numerous perks will include (i) something you can put on your CV, (ii) interaction with MIT's Christian faculty, (iii) the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing you have participated in something bigger than yourself. If you are interested or have any questions please contact Carla Grobler (carlau@mit.edu).

Prayer Square

• Pray for our daily needs in the lab and office.

• Pray for reconciliation, peace and understanding in our society.

• Pray that our desires may be aligned with God's desire for the world.

Spiritual Encouragement

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for

 "All flesh is like grass

    and all its glory like the flower of grass.

  The grass withers,

    and the flower falls,

  but the word of the Lord remains forever."

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

(1 Peters 1:22-25, ESV)

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NEWSFLASH | Testimony Night | Friday 10/27 @ 7:30 pm | Sid-pac Seminar Room

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

This Friday, we will have a time of sharing and reflecting upon God's grace given to our own lives, both past and present. Besides hearing from those of us who volunteered to share, the floor will be open for anyone to share their stories!  This is a great opportunity to talk about ways you see your faith and your work integrating, and what God is teaching you in your academic life.

Speaker: Members of GCF

Where: Sid-pac Seminar Room

When: Friday, October 27, 7:30 pm

Topic: "The Good News at MIT - and in our lives"

Contact: Steering Committee (mit-gcf-steer@mit.edu)

Announcements

• Next Friday (11/3) we will hear from Prof. Troy Van Voorhis from the Chemistry department, who has regularly visited us to encourage us with fun and insightful teaching. Stay tuned for more details!

• Weekly prayer: come pray with us! Prayer requests also welcomed.

• Monday 12:30-1:00pm, Basement of W11 (W11-080).
  Contact: Grace (graceg@mit.edu)

• Please email Grace if you want to attend the informal prayer meetings but your schedule does not allow you to meet regularly.

Prayer Square

• Pray for the exercise of kindness, justice and righteousness in our society.

• Pray that we will listen to God's words in our daily lives.

Spiritual Encouragement

"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."        --Galatians 5:1

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NEWSFLASH | Fall Retreat | 10/6-8 (Fri-Sun) | Toah Nipi Retreat Center

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

This weekend we'll head to Toah Nipi Retreat Center, whose name comes from Algonquin for "wide waters," to seek the Lord and enjoy His creation. The sign up deadline has passed for this year, but consider getting together if you'll be staying around Cambridge!

Announcements

• Next Friday we will convene again for a regular large group, in Sid-pac seminar room. Our very own Rev. Kevin Ford will be speaking. Stay tuned!

• Weekly prayer: come pray with us! Prayer requests also welcomed.

• Monday 12:30-1:00pm, Basement of W11 (W11-080).
  Contact: Grace (graceg@mit.edu)

• Please email Grace if you want to attend the informal prayer meetings but your schedule does not allow you to meet regularly.

Prayer Square

• Pray for a restful weekend that allows us to remember the purpose of our studies and our loved ones.

Spiritual Encouragement

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment." (John 5:24-29, ESV)

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NEWSFLASH | Prof. Jing Kong | Friday 9/15 @ 7:30pm | Sidpac Seminar Room

Welcome to the MIT Graduate Christian Fellowship!

Join us this week for the first Large Group of the semester! Professor Jing Kong from MIT EECS will speak to us and kick off the semester. She will extend a warm welcome to the new students, share about her own journey to faith, encourage us in our walk with God at MIT through her own experiences, and talk about following God's calling and spreading the Good News on the MIT campus.

 Speaker: Prof. Jing Kong (EECS)

         "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news"

 Where: Sidney-Pacific Seminar Room

 When: Friday, September 15, 7:30 pm

 Contact: Steering Committee (mit-gcf-steer@mit.edu)

Announcements

• Next Friday (9/22), Rev. Curtis Cook from Hope Fellowship Church will speak to us!

• Retreat with us!  InterVarsity Boston Graduate Student Getaway is Columbus Day weekend, October 6-8.  Come away to beautiful Fall foliage at Toah Nipi in New Hampshire with grad students from other Boston schools.
  Thanks to a generous alum, first year students get ½ off with code MITGCFFIRST !

• Get more info or register at http://intervarsityretreat.info

• Price goes up $10 after Sept. 22

• Weekly prayer: come pray with us! Prayer requests also welcomed.

• Monday 12:30-1:00pm, Basement of W11 (W11-080).
  Starts from 9/18; Contact: Grace (graceg@mit.edu)

Prayer Square

• Pray for the new students to find a faith community and receive guidance from the Lord.

• Pray for those being affected by the recent natural disasters.

Spiritual Encouragement

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Rom 12:1, 21)

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