Well, it's been a quiet week in my hometown ... (7/14-7/20)

It's that time again - the time for the weekly announcements.  Luckily, this week we're back to a normal level of busyness - which means that you'll only be very busy instead of extremely busy.  Let's first look at what we here at Homegroup 6 are doing this week.

On Tuesday, we once again have our usual Summer Evangelism Training and prayer meeting.  As always, we're starting at 7 PM, and the location is First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, and snacks will be provided starting from 6:30 PM in the courtyard in front of the church.  And if that wasn't exciting enough, I'm told that we're going to have a special guest attending - one of our intrepid missionaries from Gracepoint Fellowship Church - Hsinchu.  Yes, if you haven't heard, Eugene and Cynthia Peng, the leaders of our church in Taiwan, are coming to visit as well as attend Bible Teacher Training up at the Sierra Lodge, so be sure to say "Hi!" to them when you see them this week.  UPDATE: Actually, SET for this week is going to be at St. Augustine's, not at First Pres.

This Thursday is the second day of our Tech/Arts/Praise/Worship training at our North Loop building in Alameda.  I hear there are plenty of students with cars in Berkeley who will be going, so please try and arrange rides on your own.

On Friday, we have our "usual" Summer Intramurals and DT sharing afterwards.  The sports are at Wood Middle School in Alameda with the dinner/DT sharing location TBA.

This weekend is the first of three class discipleship retreats - the sophomore discipleship retreat is happening this coming weekend - it will be at Sierra Lodge and led by Pastor Ed Kang and Kelly Kang.  Sorry, signups are already closed.  It'll be a great time of training: through sharing, Bible study, and working on the house.  Also, the basketball court up there was recently completed and we have a full set of kayaks and rafts up there for going on nearby Lake Spaulding - it's going to be great!  Don't get jealous juniors and seniors, your chance is coming soon enough.

Finally, on Sunday, we have Sunday service at Gracepoint Fellowship Church at our usual location, Willard Middle School.  Please check the website for more details.

So that's all the events happening with Homegroup 6.  In other Koinonia/Gracepoint Fellowship Church related news, our Honduras 2 mission team is leaving today, July 14th, at 9 PM from North Loop.  Our Honduras 1 mission team just returned this past Saturday.  These two mission trips are medical mission trips that we're taking through an organization called Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International. Please pray for all of our brothers and sisters who will be going.

Anyways, that's the news from Berkeley, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.