Welcome Week was so much fun with a slew of activities! Here’s a bit of recap of what we did:
On Tuesday, we combined with Kairos 1 & 3 to host a BBQ at Dana House. We had a wonderful time of re-”connecting” with our friends from the Cal Connects we hosted in Tri Valley, San Jose, and Cupertino! Hopefully, as alumni counselors, we were able to ease some of our freshman friends’ anxieties about college life at Cal.
On Wednesday, Kairos, Koinonia, and A2F hosted New Student Welcome Night 1 at Pauley Ballroom. Our whole church worked together to put on an amazing program (which included music, video, skit, & message), and feed over a thousand people with Korean BBQ.
On Thursday, all of Kairos got together for Shaved “Ice Breakers” at the YWCA. We had a fun time of eating shaved ice desserts (with mochi, red bean, condensed milk, fruit cocktail — mmm good!) and played some riveting games of Catch Phrase, speed Scrabble, Jenga, Apples to Apples, and Mad Gab!
Playing a game of MadGab!
Then today, Friday, we had our New Student Welcome Night 2! Again we had another great program, with awesome music, video, skit, and message. The skit was called “Race of a Lifetime” and as the title gives away, it portrayed how life can be viewed as a race. The main character is set on a race by his parents before he’s old enough to know what this race is about. Like a good boy, he does as he’s told, and runs hard, trying to out-compete others, and out-compete time. But sadly, he never pauses to consider what he’s running for, and why. Is this a worthy race to run? Will achievement of the goal satisfy? Pastor Ed Kang of Gracepoint Fellowship Church exhorted us not to race ahead unthinkingly with our lives, as the main character did, but to use our time in college to ask the bigger questions of life and to consider what God would have to say.
Kairos @ Pauley
