Wednesday dinner 11/17/2018

Format & Plan | Flyer

• Praise the Lord for sending many burdened saints in both Cupertino & Sunnyvale to labor together on the De Anza College campus. We feel that we would be able to expand our presence on the campus beyond Thursday lunch time bible studies in the cafeteria.

  • We decided to use the club status to reserve a room Wednesday weekly 5:30pm - 7:30pm (simple dinner around 6:30pm)

    • The application is being processed (requiring 12 working days).

    • For 2018 Fall, we apply for the following dates: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/5,

    • and one of the following rooms in the back of the cafeteria: Don Bautista, Santa Cruz, El Clemente

• We understand that not many saints currently coming to Thursday lunch bible studies would also be able to come regularly for another time on campus. On the other hand, it might work for some other saints who are not able to come Thursday lunch time. And the same goes with the students, typically their classes are either M-W (or M-W-F) or TU-TH; also there are evening classes in De Anza.

• We propose to start with a one-time "welcome dinner" on 11/14* and decide if / how frequent we would use the room for further gatherings based on the responses and availability of students and serving saints.

• The first gathering will be oriented more for welcoming with meal & ice-breaking activities.

• If we are able to develop it into a regular gathering, it will be less a bible study time but more a complement to the Thursday time, say a singing+corporate fellowship time possibly like this:

  • (5:30-6pm for buffering time for our own prep/kitchen staff delay..., or for few only available this early)

  • 6pm - (6:30 dinner) - 7pm: for those earlier better for them

    • 6:30 - 7:30pm: for those later better for them.

* We, hopefully, have the room first on 11/7, but we may not have adequate time to invite the students from the confirmation of room/dates, thus targetting first gathering on 11/14.

Burdens and factors for this additional time:

• Broaden our reach to the students on campus.

  • Broaden the participation of the saints.

  • Broaden the experience of students who are with us (e.g. not easy to sing, nor to have a slightly larger group, in cafeteria).

  • A step further, while still on campus, toward home meetings and bringing them into the church life.

Reminder:

• Our time on campus should always be in the nature of "fishing" & "incubating", for contacting more new ones and for (patiently) warming up/building up trust & relatedness with them, and for forstering the taste of life.

• Our goal is NOT to bring more into the bible study (or Wednesday dinner), but to bring some, step by step patiently, into the church life.

• It is good to have appointments with your new ones outside of the on-campus time, in person or over the phone, regularly or occasionally.

• It is good to labor more closely together with some saints in the principle of 2s or 3s.