yo Guyz! =)

yep... the prob i had seems to be i didn't sign up hahaha woops lol

how are things going w/ the out of towners?

Oh rite.. just wanna take this time to advertise...

next week coluni is having this thanksgiving dinner... (take out.. not pot luck)
the rest of the nite will be talking about thanksgiving etc...

The cost of the dinner: how ever much u want... all proceeds goes to world vision (am i rite?)
Interested? email peter

John

Problems posting?

Hey everyone,

I've changed everyone's status to admin because I've been hearing that some of you can't create your own posts. Everyone should be able to make posts now, and have access to the blog settings as well, so feel free to blog with us. If someone other than me, Felix, Justin, or Tim could make a post that would be great - just so I can test whether this alleviates our problem. If you're still having problems, email me at cmsuen@gmail.com


Knock yourselves out.

A Lesson / A Choice

Welp, I just bought an iphone on ebay. But I forgot that customs charges GST + PST on everything marked over $60, so in the end I'm paying more than if I drove to Buffalo and got one myself (which I realize I'm going to have to do). Now I have to wait for the seller to ship it to me, pay the incidental fees, and then resell it. With the demand out there I'll recover my costs, but it's extra work that I could have avoided.

Moral of the story: don't buy items over $60 on eBay, unless it's shipping within Canada.

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What do you guys think about this purchase? I don't mean the eBay mistake, but getting an iphone at all.

Personally I am against extravagant spending, but with this I'm torn. Disorganization has been a thorn in my side since I was a kid, and I've been considering getting a PDA for a while now (paper agendas continually elude me). My rationale with the iphone was: a PDA with a decent feature set is gonna cost ~$300 anyway, so I might as well spend the extra $150 for an iphone, which would give me an added media player, camera, and phone. However, $450 is $450, and it being an Apple device makes me feel even more like a consumer whore.

So yeah... Godly struggles indeed... your thoughts appreciated. And Felix, glad to hear you're getting better.

SUPPPP!

Hey everyone!

I haven't checked the blog since my last post and its great to hear from you all! It seems like everyone is starting to get busy. I've been quite busy myself. I finished two assignments yesteday and then I just got assigned 3 more due next week. So unfortunately I don't think I'll be coming out till Thanksgiving.

Well this year I've been starting to attend fellowship. I go to Laurier Chinese Christian Fellowship and its been great so far. We had a bible study yesterday about being living sacrifices for God and not conforming to the world. It was a good reminder that everyday I need to live my life for God in all that I do.

Oh and I'm getting better already from my cold. It takes awhile to recover cause my house is very humid, so it affects my breathing. Thanks for the prayers.

It's good to see that coluni is still running well! Good stuff! I really do hope that when I come back I'll see growth in the fellowship and hopefully some new members as well. :)

I know what you mean about school Justin. I don't have that much confidence in myself either. For me, the lazy side of me always seems to be tempting me to not do work. But thank God the past two weeks I've been working my butt off. I just hope I can keep it up till the end of the term. I guess we need to trust in the Lord and his provision.

Well I'll be praying for you all. hope to hear whats happening with you guys this week.

Take care,

Felix

Band of Brothers

Hey guys!

We've formed new small groups tonight at CollUni, and it turns out that 4 of us men became one of the groups. These four are Justin, John, Keith, and I. I've already asked Colin (by email) to send an invite for Keith to join our Men's Group blog. He just recently joined CollUni.

Anyway, I'm excited because our Men's Group can actually continue to have small group during CollUni, which makes it easier for us to continue the bonding and fellowshipping. Oh, and we've also came up with our cell group name: Band of Brothers (or BOB for short). So yup, look forward to having you out-of-town brothers to join the BOB CollUni small group!

As for my week, it went well! Nothing really special, but slowly I feel that work is piling up. I'm already behind, but that's normal haha. But yup, gotta stay on track and stuff! I'm actually a Sports Director for Chinese Engineering Student's Association (CESA) at UofT downtown, so that's keeping me quite busy. I'm glad that I have this opportunity because many of these people in the club are non-Christians, so hopefully this can be my mission field for this year!

Anyway, enjoy the weekend everybody! ttyl!

Hey men,

I'm glad to see that we're actually putting this blog to use. To be honest, I was a little worried because I'd be checking everyday, and then when I was more at ease, I see three posts. It's been a blessing to be able to see people sharing in their posts. I hope that as time goes on, we'll continue to open up.

I'm about halfway through my second week of school and so far it's been good. I can't really complain about 16 hours of class, compared to my first year average of about 25 hrs. I am keeping busy though, running the student Meal Exchange volunteer program. It's an initiative to raise awareness about local hunger, and one of the activities we have is collecting non-perishable foods on Halloween and donating the food to the London Food Bank. I'm very grateful that at this point we have almost 75 volunteers signed up. I'm just praying that this opportunity to serve the community will really open the eyes of students and myself to some of the real issues of this world, and to appreciate and share the luxuries that we have. So feel free to join me in these praises and prayer requests.

Perhaps this is some form of "being missional", but one of the disadvantages of working for impartial charities is that you're not supposed to promote your religious beliefs. Ideally, I would want the message of the gospel to be the backing for this initiative instead of a bunch of generous people giving. So how do I let people know that it's because of God's love that these provisions are being made? I guess that's something I will have to think about for now.

Anyways, it was good to hear from you guys, and I hope you're all doing well with school and stuff. I would love to hear about how CollUni is going too, and I encourage you all to pray for the growth and refinement for this fellowship as they face new challenges in a new school year. I'll also be praying for Justin and Felix too, as per their requests. Have fun everyone!

Missional Church

Hey guys,

We finished the last of the series in regards to "Creating a Missional Church" today, and just wanted to leave you guys to think about this definition:

The Missional Church is a community of Christ's followers who are contrasted from its community by holiness, yet with a deep yearning to reach its community for Christ in an ever growing circle of influence.

So are we doing our part in creating SCAC as a missional church? How can we apply this to our lives out on our campuses during the school year?

Yup, so I guess those are some of the thoughts I had, and maybe you guys can think about them too!

And now, 2nd week of SKULE! (1st for some of you...)

-Tim

Hey guys, hope things are going well and your schedules aren't too brutal. I've got about 22 hours of class/week, a couple classes at 9am, and a couple classes that end at 6pm. The only real bad part is driving all the way across town through rush hour, both ways... I'm thinking about staying late on the days I have 6pm classes, just so it doesn't take so long coming back.

Overall things are shaping up. I feel like I shouldn't say anything beyond that... I have a lot of uncertainty and doubt given my past experiences with school, but I guess that's just me being hesitant to trust in His provision. I've been praying about it.

Btw I like how we have Colin, Felix, Justin, and then JerJai and silvRflmes. Reminds me of Xbox gamer profiles for some reason.

Hey guys!

Thanks for setting this blogpage up colin. Now lets get some blogging done! Well most of you have started school already, so how was the first 2 days of school? Getting use to school life again?

As for me I'm getting sick. I think its a cold of some sort, but this isn't good! Of all the days I'm getting sick at the start of school...GAYYYYNESS. I'm moving in tomorrow afternoon. Got tons of stuff to clean. Good news is that I bought all my groceries today. Its so much cheaper at no frills then at sobeys!

Well thats just about all that happened today.

Here are some prayer requests, if you guys can pray for me that'll be awesome.

God's healing for my cold.
I'm having back pains too, so if you could pray for that as well.
Discipline and Hard work for this new school year.


I hope to hear from everyone and how you're doing.

-felix

Men's Cell

Hey Men,

I thought Felix's blog idea was great so I decided to set one up for our men's cell. I think keeping in touch and being able to sound off our thoughts and experiences with each other would be a great way to share the love, because thats what it's all about. It's the least we can do as brothers in Christ, and it will give us another way to encourage one another, shout out our praises, share scriptures, and make prayer requests so we can experience what it is to love one another in a totally manly way - and by the end we can proudly proclaim "I LOVE MEN!" wholeheartedly and heterosexually, not caring what the world thinks of us.

So let's try to make the most of the school year and keep in touch. Oh, and if you're feeling like this blog has homosexual undertones, just watch the Scrubs episode entitled "My Musical" in Season 6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4L4Uv5rf0