This past week was SFSU Koinonia’s GONE special event and with 15 new friends joining us, we had a great time together! Thank you all for your prayers and for Berkeley Koinonia and Element for providing us with so much material.
We started off with some guys BBQing burgers and hot links and set up Rosa Parks A-C for GONE. After a rush to get all the sound and video elements ready, we opened the program with some icre breaker questions and trivia questions relating to SF State University. Then we were ready to get right into a time of praise where we sang Hillsong’s “Salvation is Here” and Kutless’ “Sea of Faces”. After that, we heard testimonies from Eileen, Steve, Jeffri and Paul about how they once wasted their lives away but how after meeting God, now live transformed lives. Identifying the way they wasted their lives away with one word such as cool, basketball, money and drugs they went on to share how they came to know God through Koinonia and many other brothers and sisters at Gracepoint Fellowship Church. It was really powerful to hear their stories and many were really in awe of how much by the grace of God their lives have been changed.
With a few more media elements through the night Ahmi, brought it all home with a stirring message, challenging that the students really examine their lives and seriously check out our Bible studies and investigate Christianity. Afterwards, we feasted on the juiciest burgers and hot links ever and had a time of discussion. We closed the night back at Arballo with a hilarious freak show of seeing Mark rotate his foot (not his leg) 180 degrees, Derek bend his finger at the middle join 90 degrees (backwards!!), Catchphrase and other games along with some great dessert. By the end of the night, we were all pretty beat but so thankful for the 15 new students who came along with just the chance to just hear the testimonies of the four bros and sis.
As always, enjoy the photos taken from that night! You kinda have to turn your head on a few of these.. but .. it’s always good to stretch throughout the day 
Thanks again for your prayers!
** Btw, SFSU Koinonia has a Flickr account where you can view all their latest photos! Check it out if you’re interested in seeing what goes on!
Sounded like everyone had a great time.
By: Judy on March 19, 2009
at 1:30 pm
GONE has come and gone =( It was a great night, from hearing the testimonies (especially my brother’s) to meeting new students to the games we played together!
Some of the girls teamed up to go against the guys in a game of Taboo, and hearing some words being described was pretty amusing as well =)
By: jennchen on March 19, 2009
at 1:56 pm
What a night!
By: akim on March 19, 2009
at 2:18 pm
i was thankful to be able to share my testimony with the students that night!
By: ahneileen on March 19, 2009
at 2:25 pm
Was a really memorable event! I’m so thankful for the testimonies. Also, Mark’s foot 180 degrees was kind of disturbing. I was very amused by Daniel as the human wall. And of course, what could top Chris’ first 20+ digits of pi?
By: richl on March 20, 2009
at 10:40 pm