Faith, Learning, and Fellowship

You are warmly invited to join Graduate Christian Fellowship for our annual Winter conference, Telos 2012! Telos is Greek for “end goal”, and through this annual gathering of all graduate students from New York/New Jersey, we explore together how God is calling us to live, and what He is moving us to do as we move towards that end goal of graduation!

Telos 2012 will focus on “God’s Mission & Calling”. Through studying scripture, community fellowship, prayer, and intentional conversation, we will explore what does it look like to be called by God, what His purposes are for us, and how as graduate students we can join in that movement.  We will be led by Lindsay Olesberg, Associate Regional Director for Missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as well as Scripture Manager for the triennial Urbana missions conference. It’s going to be a tremendous time!

Below is the attached registration information (and family registration form if you would like to bring your spouse/children along!)

Telos 2012
February 17-19, 2012
Spruce Lake, NY (transportation provided)

Registration in only $145 if deposit ($75, nonrefundable) is sent by December 23rd!

Hope to see you there!

Telos ’12 Brochure & Registration

Telos ’12 Family Registration Form

Hi everybody,

Hard to believe it’s December already! I hope things are winding up well for the final push of the semester. Here is this week’s update:

Thursday Small Groups:

This is it! the last week  of small groups for the semester!Join us in Kimmel 903 from 2 PM to 4 PM or at Anna’s from 7 PM to 9 PM!

Christmas party:
Friday, December 16 from 7 PM to 9:30 PM in Kimmel 406!   Stop on by for singing, Christmas cookies, and all kinds of Christmas festivity!

Telos Winter Retreat:
Be sure to sign up for a snowy weekend of s’mores, speakers, and giant owls on February 17-19 in Canadensis, PA.  The early registration deadline is December 23. Registration fee = $145. For more details, snag a brochure at one of the meetings.

Greetings GCF!

Thursday Small Groups:
Our fearless leader Anna will be out of town this week so the afternoon group is cancelled.  The evening meeting is still on, and will be led by Eric Besson.

Christmas party:
Friday, December 16 from 7 PM to 9:30 PM in Kimmel 406.  More details later.

Telos Winter Retreat:
Be sure to sign up for a snowy weekend of s’mores, speakers, and giant owls on February 17-19 in Canadensis, PA.  The early registration deadline is December 23. Registration fee = $145. For more details, snag a brochure at one of the meetings.

Advent Service:
Come to the Church of the Ascension, the Episcopal Church on 5th Avenue at 10th St. at 6 PM. Anna and Tommy are doing a reading and reflection in addition to the lessons and carols of the service.

I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving full of warmth and joy (not to mention yummy food!). Although it is often thought of as a strictly secular holiday these days devoted to gorging oneself while watching football and then passing out until Friday (it might still retain these elements for us), giving thanks is an act that involves both the feasting subject and the proper object(s) to which thanks is due. One doesn’t just give thanks for objects (things and people) but to the entity that provides them. Thus begins a causal chain wherein we give thanks to that which provides that which provides that which provides… etc.  At the beginning of the chain is of course the One Who provides the basis for all things, namely, our God and Father. The fact that we call God “Father” reveals that He has personality and is not merely the distant origin of everything but hears and responds to our prayers. In our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ God comes to meet us under the conditions of our humanity and through the Holy Spirit we are offered the closeness of being able to speak face-to-face and mind-to-mind to this God to Whom all our thanks is due. As we enter into the Christmas season, we are all the more reminded of what it means that the Origin of the universe chose to be born in our small galaxy, on our small planet, in the little town of Bethlehem in the tiny land of Judah. Even if we had nothing else, we would already have so very much to be thankful for! So, in conclusion, let us give thanks for all the blessings we have in our lives.

God bless and happy Thanksgiving,

Tommy

You are warmly invited to join Graduate Christian Fellowship for our annual Winter conference, Telos 2012! Telos is Greek for “end goal”, and through this annual gathering of all graduate students from New York/New Jersey, we explore together how God is calling us to live, and what He is moving us to do as we move towards that end goal of graduation!

Telos 2012 will focus on “God’s Mission & Calling”. Through studying scripture, community fellowship, prayer, and intentional conversation, we will explore what does it look like to be called by God, what His purposes are for us, and how as graduate students we can join in that movement.  We will be led by Lindsay Olesberg, Associate Regional Director for Missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as well as Scripture Manager for the triennial Urbana missions conference. It’s going to be a tremendous time!

Below is the attached registration information (and family registration form if you would like to bring your spouse/children along!)

Telos 2012
February 17-19, 2012
Spruce Lake, NY (transportation provided)

Registration in only $145 if deposit ($75, nonrefundable) is sent by December 23rd!

Hope to see you there!

Telos ’12 Brochure & Registration

Telos ’12 Family Registration Form

As mentioned last week, the discussion group studying the gospel of John will meet in room 903 of Kimmel Ctr., which will be the location for the rest of the semester (barring any changes made by the folks at Kimmel operations).

The evening small group will meet as usual.

Have a great week and God bless!

just a quick update on location for the afternoon discussion group that meets today from 2 PM to 4 PM in Kimmel Center: there has been a room change for today and we will meet in room 906.   For the following weeks we have room 903, unless of course we get moved again.   if we do get moved, there will be a new post about it.

Enjoy your classes and everything else that’s going on!

Many blessings,

Tommy

This coming Friday (9/9) we will be hosting a reception for new graduate students in Kimmel Center, Rm. 909, from 7pm to 9pm.  There will be snacks, beverages, cool music (nothing from my ipod), and great conversation.  We hope to see lots of new faces and to welcome you well to this university and to our community!

That’s right, we’re kicking off the new academic year with worship and praise of the God who has brought us here to NYU and equipped us for every good work.  Things will be kicking off at 4pm this Thursday (9/1) in Kimmel Student Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914, where there will be a chance to meet new friends from the graduate Christian community as well as campus ministers and local pastors while worshiping with an awesome South Asian praise band!  The event ends at 6pm but the fun doesn’t have to end there: join us for coffee/food after the event.  We can’t wait to meet you!

All are welcome at this event regardless of religious or non-religious affiliation.  Please feel free to bring any questions you may have about what being Christian as a graduate student (or in general) is all about, and please bring your friends!

God bless,

Tommy Gimbel, GCF Chapter President (tommy.gimbel@gmail.com)

To all new graduate students visiting this website for the first time, welcome to NYU!!!  We hope that your transition has been pleasant so far and that you are excited to embark on a successful and brilliant first year of grad school.  On behalf of GCF I would like to invite you to browse our site (under construction!) and to get involved with our events!  The best way to get involved is to join our google group (NYU Grad Small Group) so you can receive announcements about weekly small group Bible studies and other events.  You can also check us out on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/NYU-InterVarsity-Graduate-Christian-Fellowship/147745681913481)!  I look forward to meeting you in a few weeks!

Check this site out after 8/27 for more information on upcoming events.  If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email at tommy.gimbel@gmail.com.

God bless,

Tommy