Hello, Haas Christian Fellowship!
We have a few new members to HCF after the FTMBA club fair last week. If you are one of them, welcome! Last week's newsletter can be found here: https://haas.campusgroups.com/hcf/newsletters/
Are you wondering where this ridiculous waterfall is located and why it is pictured here? Read on!
Your HCF officers,
Kyle Clark, Freya Lee, Robert Etter, and Lydia Kearney
Upcoming Events
Morning Prayer & Coffee, Thursdays at 8:10 a.m.
We alternate every other week with morning prayer and devotional one week and a coffee catch-up the next. Morning prayer begins this week at 8:00 a.m., i.e., Berkeley time of 8:10. Come to S201 in the library this Thursday and get grounded in God before the day begins.
Fellowship Welcome Dinner, Sunday, September 11 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Join fellow Haasies who are interested in Christian community at our HCF Welcome Dinner. The main course will be provided.** Partners are invited as well! Please RSVP so we can prepare enough food: http://cglink.me/r312470. If you have dietary considerations, please email freya_lee@mba.berkeley.edu and lydia_kearney@mba.berkeley.edu.
**As an affinity club, HCF does not receive Haas funding. All events are funded by member donations. For this welcome dinner, first years, please just come. Second and third years, let's help create this community environment by bringing a small side, dessert, or drinks.
HCF Community Group - beginning Sunday, September 18 from 7:00-8:45 p.m., 2702 Virginia St., Berkeley, CA 94709ÔÇï
HCF community group is a time for us to gather and spend time in the Word, discuss the ways we can apply these truths in our lives, and stay rooted in Christ amidst the busy-ness of business school. We will be going through the book of John, and throughout the semester we will also have specific devotionals and worship nights during community group.
Prof. Bill Pearce and HCF Hangout, Monday, September 26 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Join one of our HCF faculty sponsors, Bill Pearce, for drinks on Monday evening. It's a great time to socialize, relax, and fellowship with Haas' faithful faculty. Location to be announced soon. Please save the date.
External Opportunities
 UC Berkeley Veritas Graduate Christian Fellowship Fall Retreat, September 16-18
Register for the Fall Retreat at Redwood Glen in Loma Mar, CA before Friday, September 9 at bit.ly/VeritasFall16. Whether you are a seasoned veteran of Veritas or looking to meet people for the first time, the retreat is a relaxing and fun way to seek faith and growth in community! Carl Pascual, Minister of Community Life from Oakland City Church, will be speaking on "Free People: Meditations on our identity from the book of Hebrews and Genesis."
Scholarships are provided for those who need financial assistance. Please e-mail shion@berkeley.edu for info. First-time attendees, use the promo code FIRST
Believers in Business Conference, April 7-8, 2017, New York City
Save the date for this year’s Believers in Business Conference (BiB), which will be held on April 7-8, 2017, in New York City. The theme of this year’s conference is “A Higher Calling: Becoming Kingdom-Minded Leaders.” BiB seeks to gather MBA students from across the country to network, fellowship, and learn from relevant leaders on discerning vocational calling and living out Christian faith in the marketplace. Through dynamic teaching, interactive discussions, and engaging dialogue, BiB will talk about business challenges and how to respond with a faith-based approach.
FMI: https://gfm.intervarsity.org/events/believers-business-2017
Cost: apply for C3 funding to get part of the cost subsidized
Student Reflection
At HCF, we like to source reflections from the MBA journey from the fellowship! One of the officers may reach out to you for your thoughts, or you may receive a word from God that you want to share with the broader HCF community. Please contact freya_lee@mba.berkeley.edu if you have something to share.
Reflection from Freya Lee, FTMBA 2017
This weekend, one of my childhood friends took me to Redding, CA. For those of you who don't know where Redding is, it's about 10 miles south of where Haasboats took place, close to Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak, and home to Bethel Church. She was making her quarterly pilgrimage to Redding for spiritual renewal, and she invited me to look for waterfalls alongside her.
After a long, full day of hikes to various waterfalls and lakes, we went to her favorite place: Burney Falls, pictured in the newsletter header above. 100 million gallons of water flow a day from underground springs fed by snowmelt from the Cascade mountains, such that water literally comes out of the rock face. As I stared up at the waterfall in awestruck wonder, one word kept repeating in my mind: Majesty. God, in all of His majesty, created this wonderful sight to behold. God, in all of His creativity, designed the underground network of springs that sends this water to the thirsty. God, in all of His power, knew every detail of this ecosystem and every detail of my heart.
I stood there in silence for a long time, worshipping. What else could I do but worship? I imagined myself standing beneath the waterfall, under the force of God's abundant love. For the first time since the school year started, I felt like my worries and fears about the semester and post-MBA job search were gone, and I was at peace.
1 Chronicles 29:11-13
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. 13 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Questions, comments, praises, or prayer requests? Email kyle_clark@mba.berkeley.edu or freya_lee@mba.berkeley.edu |
