CITY/SCRIPT is coming soon!!!

It's that time of year again... year end banquet tickets for our year end party are now on sale!!! On Sunday March 30th @ 7:00pm we'll be hosting our year end formal banquet at Valentino's Italian Restaurant (located in Westdale, http://www.valentinosrestaurant.ca/). If you haven't been there before... this is your chance to taste some of the best Italian food in the city! It'll be a good time to share some great food and great time as a community to wrap up the year. Tickets for the dinner are $25 and can be bought in your small group or email Alan (hurinerithamrod@hotmail.com). Make sure to get your ticket early so you have a guaranteed spot!!! So just talk to your small group leaders and they can give you all of the details...

Worship Night (planned and hosted by Tuesday night's small group) will be held this Thursday night (March 13) @ 6:30pm. It will be held in Alan and Andrew's house...27 HOLLYWOOD St. South . If you don't know where that is, we'll be meeting on campus and heading over @ 6:00pm in the Student Center by the fireplace on the main floor. This will be a great time to gather together around some worship and discussion about what God has been doing in the community, so we hope you can all come out!

Hey everyone... just a heads up on a conference happening at Mac on the weekend of March 14th. The website with all of the info is http://gcc.furi.ca/. Make sure to sign up early to get a cheaper rate for the weekend. I really recommend this conference to anyone, so make sure to look through the list of speakers and seminars to see if this might be something you're interested in...

Interested in current events, leadership, peace, health, environment, sustainability, cross-cultural exchange, media, human rights, and activism?

The Third Annual Global Citizenship Conference: Re-Envisioning Communities is happening the weekend of March 14th, 15th and 16th at McMaster University! Come out for busker fests, art exhibits, art crawls, concert, workshops, lectures, panels, food, amazing keynote speakers, and so much more! Come out to participate in one of the most inspiring, diverse and largest McMaster events of the year.

For more information visit http://gcc.furi.ca/ and register now (payment available online and at compass)!! Early bird fee of $35 (includes 4 meals and three days worth of events), and later fee of $45 (after March 7th). Volunteers are still being accepted - see webpage for more information or contact Erica Suh at erica.suh@learnlink.mcmaster.ca

In case you haven't heard...we'll be joining up with Korean Christian Fellowship to host a coffee house this Thursday night!!! Here are the details...

When: Thursday Feb. 14 - 5:30-7:00pm.
Where: Gilmour Hall, Room 111.
What to Bring: If you're able, we'd like for you to bring your favourite baked good that everyone can enjoy throug the night! Also... feel free to invite anyone along that you know!

Even if you can only make it for a bit, we'd still love to have you drop in at any point throughout the night! There will be live music, shared stories, as well as other performances by some very talented individuals... so we hope to see you all come out!

This coming Thursday, January 31, we'll be meeting in the Student Center Clubsapce (2nd floor in the MUSC) at 6:30pm. We'll be discussing different themes that arose from the retreat around the Kingdom of God, as well as sharing with each other as a community what God has been doing in our lives, and the lives of others. We hope you can all make it out for what is sure to be a great night!

Sunday January 20th: WORSHIP CELEBRATION in HSC 1A1 from 7-10pm

Wednesday January 23rd: Rev. Jamie McIntosh Speaking on "Seeking Justice in an Unjust World", HSC 1A1 7-9pm

Saturday Jan. 26th: Coffee House in Bridges Cafe, 7-10:30pm with special headlining musician Jared, performing acoustic songs which incorporate elements of rock, jazz, and pop. Also, opening performances from some of the Christian groups involved.

Tabling: There are still people needed to sign up for tabling for the week (Monday-Friday) Please check your schedules and sign up at the Chaplaincy Office (the schedule is posted on the door).

Also... The Coffee House crew is still looking for some acts from 7-9pm before the headlining performance. If anyone is interested, they are looking for 10-15 minute acts of any talent. Please contact Alan or Mark to sign up: Alan - hurinerithamrod@hotmail.com

What: The Big Game on a big screen with pre-game pick-up football. Food and entertainment guaranteed!
When: Sunday February 3rd, 2008 (Super Bowl Sunday)
3:00 pick-up begins
5:30 for the Big Game
Where: 18 Dalewood Ave.
Cost: $10 gets you food for the night and non-alcoholic drinks (BYOB). In honour of Mr. Hamilton Candundo's birthday, any extra profit will be donated to help send medical supplies and medication to Angola, Africa.

MacVCF/BCF Winter Retreat:

It's not too late to sign up for the retreat! You can hand in your permission forms and money ($85) to your small group leaders this week. Also, you can drop it off from 11:30-12:30 on Wednesday in the fishbowl looking room in the Clubspace. Someone will be there to collect everything. The retreat is THIS WEEKEND. We'll meet at 5:30pm with all your stuff @ Div College Parking lot.

And now, a list of things to bring:
- pillow
- sleeping bag
- materials for manuscript study (pen, pencils, coloured pencils, markers)
- Bible
- notebook for taking notes
- towel
- toiletries
- warm clothes
- indoor shoes/slippers
- health card
In the main meeting hall, the heating is not perfect. The front of the room can be very hot and the back very cold. The solution: wear layers!

Again, if cost is an issue, PLEASE speak to Melody (mellychookado[at]hotmail.com). We can definitely work something out.

Hi everyone! Welcome back... we hope you all had a very fun and relaxing break and are ready to get back into the swing of things with school starting once again. Here are a couple things that we've got coming of @ MacVCF...

Welcome Back Party

We'll be having a welcome back party this Saturday the 12th @ Alan and Andrew's House (27 Hollywood St. S) 6:00pm. It'll be pretty low key with some good food and games as a way to welcome everyone back and see how the holidays were. If you could bring some kind of appetizer that would be great. And feel free to be creative with it and bring something interesting! Interesting is always good... Anyone is welcome, so feel free to invite friends as well. Hope to see you all there!

2008 Winter Retreat

WHEN: The retreat is happening January 18-20, 2008. We will be meeting at the Div College parking lot at 5:30 p.m. on January 18 and returning Sunday afternoon.
WHERE: Camp Ganadaoweh. (www.ganadaoweh.ca).
This is a joint retreat with Brock Christian Fellowship.
The cost is $85. If money is an issue, please speak to one of the staff.
The Mac staff team (Pete, Cole, Dan, and Melody) will be the speakers at the retreat. The main theme of discussion will be the Kingdom of God.

We hope that you can join us! There will be some amazing teaching, lots of hangout time, and of course, fun times with some fun people!

SIGNING UP: If you are planning to go, please give the $85 to one of your small group leaders, Sam, or Mel (emails listed below for sign up). You can also give it to us at any official MacVCF gathering from now until then. PLEASE RESPOND ASAP.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask your small group leaders, Sam (samdchung@gmail.com) or Mel (mellychookado@hotmail.com). Stay tuned to our blog (macivcf.blogspot.com) for more information!

We're meeting again tomorrow!

CLUBSPACE
6:15 p.m.

We are FINISHING off our discussion of LUKE 10.

See you then!

So you HAVE to join a small group, eh? Here are the people you need to contact!

PS. e-mail addresses are written in longform to avoid those pesky spam bots. You know what to do.

Mark I
Mondays at 7pm (obviously not beginning on the holiday Monday!)
Contact Dave: ithrewabrickthroughawindow[at]hotmail[dot]com

Mark I
Thursdays at 7pm
Contact Hamilton: candunh[at]hotmail[dot]com
OR Robyn: robynkooistra[at]yahoo[dot]ca

Philippians & Ephesians
Tuesdays at 7pm
Contact Danny: radical_d_2100[at]hotmail[dot]com