Volunteering at Christian Help Center

Aside from our weekly meeting, we at CHF try to fit in volunteering services every now and then. Thanks to Evan Yung Kim for planning our first volunteering service of the semester at the Soup Kitchen at the Christian Help Center on Sacramento St. in Vallejo. At the Christian Help Center, we are blessed with the opportunity to serve food to those in need. Dinner is served around 5:30 p.m., so we try to get there around 4:30 p.m. to help set up tables, organize chairs, arrange dishes, and basically just help out with whatever needs to be done.

Ben is happy to be serving the Lord.
During dinner time, it is our job to serve the food. We set up an assembly line, and we all had our stations. We were ready for the masses. After prayer was spoken to bless the food, we went straight to work filling plates with deliciousness. The trick is to give people a decent amount of food while retaining enough for everyone who comes in. Praise God that this was well accomplished because people were able to come back for seconds! Sorry, but there aren't any pictures of our serving the food because we were all too busy to take pictures. After everyone finished eating, it was time to clean up. Clean up consisted of wiping tables, organizing chairs, and washing dishes.
Another happy server
Washing dishes was probably what took the longest because there was only one working faucet, but we washed those dishes happily and even took turns!

Angela and Angela tag teaming the dishes and making fashion statements
All in all, the service was a great experience, and the time flew by quickly. Everyone was delightful and kind. We were even able to catch up with an OMS3 CHF member!

We heart you, Eunice, for coming out after a long day on rotations!
Mark 10:44-45 - "And whosoever of you will b the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

Volunteers: Eunice Kim, Evan Kim, Benjamin Deters, Naomi Chiang, Angela Buck, Angela Yeh
 Until our next blog, take care, and God bless!

Angela Yeh

CHF Retreat 2010

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! - Psalm 133:1


Retreat was amazing. While it wasn't a retreat solely for spiritual growth, it was a great retreat for fellowship and introduction to CHF, Christianity, and balancing our career with Christianity. Of course, there was also a lot of relaxing, eating, and team building.

Our wonderful weekend began with the magical crossing of a ferry. To not take the ferry would be an hour detour to Snug Harbor. Allen, Naomi, Yohan, and I have decided to call the ferryman Charon (regardless of the gender of the actual ferry person) and the vastly wide and deep river (please detect the sarcasm) the River of Styx. As we leave this life of school, stress, and constant sorrow, we sail toward the relaxing and peaceful place of Snug Harbor. It truly is a retreat from this present world. :)


On Friday night, Dr. Pera spoke to us (stay tuned for notes on Dr. Pera's "lecture").

Ken Jones gave us an amazing sermon on Saturday (stay tuned for key points on Ken Jones' sermon).

In between the sermons, we ate and just enjoyed each others' company.
Rafting
The Price Is Right
Color Coded Jenga
Thanks to the master of games, Evan Yung Kim, for being the man whom we all despised during the games. Evan, we appreciate your keeping us all accountable and grumbling as we played Acid River, Electric Fence, Reach for the Stars, Fish Bowl, and other activities.

Acid River
Electric Fence
Reach for the Stars
Fish Bowl
Other Activities
The Peras' also continued our delicious crawfish tradition (Thanks Suards!). The Peras purchased about 10+ lbs of crawfish and were afraid that we wouldn't be able to finish them all. Let's just say that we killed it. Our seafood hater Benjamin Deters even tried it and said that it was the least seafood tasting seafood that he's had. :)

Expert Crawfish Boiler - Dr. Pera's written peer-reviewed articles published in highly renowned magazines on crawfish. He's pretty much legendary. 

Delicious! :9
Finally, I could not conclude this blog without acknowledging our amazing Worship Leaders: Yohan Shin, Evan Kim, and Naomi Chiang.
Yohan led Friday and Saturday night worship.
Evan led Saturday morning worship.
Naomi led Sunday morning worship.
Thank y'all for coming to the retreat. Thank the Peras for being perfect examples of spiritual leaders and servants, and thank everyone for their prayers. We hope that each person who went on the retreat had an awesome time and hope that those who were not able to go shall be able to next year. Until our next blog, take care, and God bless.

Angela Yeh
Unofficial historian of CHF