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 Fall Conference, 2002
Whatever your ethnic, cultural,
or religious background, we invite you to hang out with us and welcome
you to explore a relationship with Jesus or deepen the one you have with
us. To discover more about us, come visit -- just follow the links
above. And for information on our sister fellowships, visit cal-ivcf.org. Deuteronomy 31
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Perhaps the greatest blessing I have received since coming to Cal was
finding fellowship in CCF. For the first time in my life, I feel
like God has been building a meaningful relationship with me, and
I am trying hard to listen to what God wants.
My path to becoming a Christian was replete with challenges. Although my parents took me to church as a child, neither my mom nor my sisters had accepted Jesus as their savior, and neither had I. Then during my third year of high school, I had a talk with my cousin James that changed my life. We stayed up half the night, arguing about how God could be real. As I was about to fall asleep, thinking about what had been said, things suddenly made sense. I was not yet a Christian, but the door had been opened to me. My freshman year at Cal was full of frustrations. I was visiting James' church in Novato, but I wasn't finding God in a way that was right for me. Their church was much different than the one I had grown up in, and I felt out of place. Of my Berkeley friends I knew to be Christian, I tried going to some of their Churches... but they too were not a home for me. I was told by someone that searching for God is like two dogs fighting for your soul. Who will win? The one you feed more. And there was a battle raging in my heart. I had decided, I couldn't take any more of this, I would just have to let go of God. I went home for summer vacation trying to turn away from Jesus, because it was too hard to try and follow him. I had never been more broken than I was then.But God's promise is to never abandon us. He called me back to him, when my next door neighbor Cindy asked me to come to First Presbyterian Church with her. She persistently invited me to church, to bible study, and even to InterVarsity. God built me back up, bringing me a stronger joy for him that I had ever experienced before. I was finally able to give my heart to Jesus, and have spent every day since learning what it is to follow Jesus, and how I can serve Him. Being a Christian to me is to have the courage to step out, and trust God. If it hadn't been for James and Cindy's courage to share with me God's love, I don't know if I could have found it on my own. If you are a Christian, I urge you to find a friend, or a family member, or a neighbor, and share with them the most wonderful thing that you could ever bring into their lives. And if you are not Christian, I prey that God opens doors for you, that you too may share in his love everlasting.
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