Camping and CTI

I. Cornerstone - Camping

WHEN: Friday, April 4-5, 2008, 5:00 PM

WHERE: Bastrop State Park (but meet at Andy Lee's house - 7901 Osborne Dr., 78729)

An evite has been sent out for this - if you have NOT gotten an evite please let us know! Please RSVP Soon so we know the amount of food, supplies to bring!

With the days getting warmer and longer, it's time again for camping! Join us for a trip to the Lost Pines region of Texas at Bastrop State Park. We will be leaving at 6 pm on Friday, April 4 from Andy's house (7901 Osborne Dr, 78729) and returning in the late afternoon of Saturday, April 5. Cost will be approximately $20.

Camping trips are always a fun way to get to know each other while enjoying God's Creation (in this case, tall pine trees that got separated from their primordial forest), so we hope you can make it!
II. Cornerstone - CTI

Cornerstone is hosting Carpenter's Tools International (CTI) in TWO WEEKS - April 11th (Friday).

A little bit about CTI - is the official at large music ministry for Youth for Christ International. They are a non-profit ministry organization based in Willmar, Minnesota. For over 25 years, CTI has provided quality music and drama outreaches, working alongside established ministries in over 50 countries across the globe. (www.ctimusic.org).

Youth is joining us as well as the young adult married group with youth performing skits and drama and CTI providing worship. We'll be sending out more information about this later but please invite your friends and family to this event.

Fellowship Time and Prayer Requests

WHEN: Friday, March 28, 2008, 7:30 PM

WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

This Friday, instead of a regular fellowship - we'll be meditating on God's Word together. God invites each of us to a vibrant, personal relationship with Him and He invites us to draw near to Him daily - spending time in the Bible to hear His direction for our lives, receive His correction, gain wisdom, and strengthen our faith. Please come as we share together and study His Word together. We also have some interesting FUN games (special EXCITING concert!) planned out for us as well =). Please bring your Bibles, journals and pens!

Please lift up these two fellow brothers in Christ - Pastor Gaylord and Brandon. Pastor Gaylord was in the hospital this past weekend due to a bleeding ulcer. Pray that he will heal quickly and safely and that his hemoglobin count goes back up. Please keep his family in your prayers as well.

Brandon just had surgery on his right hand due to an acute case of DeQuervain's tenosynovitis which is an inflammation of the tissue surrounding the tendons and the tendons themselves. If the surgery is successful then he will need to have surgery on his left hand as well. Please pray that this surgery will be successful as well as the future surgery. Pray that he will heal and the pain will leave him and he can use his hands again.

EASTER WEEKEND

I. Cornerstone - Good Friday Service

WHEN: Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:30-8:30 PM

WHERE: John Sung Building, ACC

Join us this Friday as we remember and give thanks for our Savior's death and resurrection together as a body under Christ.

Afterwards, we'd like to get together and just enjoy the Easter weekend with dinner. Location to be announced but let's gather together afterwards. =)

II. ACC Easter Service - 9:30 AM - John Sung Building, ACC

Easter service is this coming up Sunday! We'll be having a special Easter message and drama, followed by a time of refreshments during the second hour. On this special day, when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, please prayerfully invite your friends and family!

Together to get the refreshment time ready for a time of fellowship for our friends and family, we, Cornerstone, are in charge of drinks, setting up and cleaning up. So, please bring some drinks on Sunday and help clean and set up. Thank you!

Joint Fellowship with ACCCF

EDIT: Basketball cancelled - meet instead at 6 PM in Carey Lighthouse Building (dinner is provided by ACCCF) - however pls bring a snack or drink for snacks later. =) thanks!

WHEN: Friday, March 14, 2008, 4:00 PM Basketball (GYM), 6:00 PM Dinner (Carey), 7:00 PM Fellowship (Carey)
WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

Please join us this Friday as we join together with our Mandarin youth adults/college ministry, ACCCF, to fellowship together and grow together as the Body of Christ. ACCCF has kindly invited us to play basketball with them in the gym at 4:00 PM. Dinner will also be served at 6 PM in Carey and fellowship will start promptly at 7:00 PM in Carey as well. If you'd like to know more about ACCCF, their website is http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/acccf/index.html.

We're very excited to be able to join up with our sister fellowship and get to know more about each other. We'll be praying and praising God together as well as a time of fellowship, snacks, and games. We look forward to seeing you!

Daylight Savings

It's time to "spring forward"! Remember to turn your clocks forward an hour Saturday night so you can be on time Sunday to church. =) on March 9, 2008!

Evangelism Outreach

WHEN: Friday, March 7, 2008, 7:15 PM

WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

Dear brothers and sisters,

This Friday night, Cornerstone will be stepping out in faith to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people of Austin. 15% of Austin residents go to a church. It's hard to imagine that close to 9 out of 10 people here are spiritually lost, separated from God, and on the path to eternal judgment. Yet, Christ loved the world and laid down His life so that sinners could be brought into a relationship with the Father.

Christ commanded us to preach the gospel to all creation. Stepping out in faith is an expression of our love and obedience to our Savior, and God has used that to increase my faith and love for Him ("for to the one who has, more will be given" -Lk 8:18).

We will spend time in training and prayer, so no experience required! We will share the gospel using tracts and in 1-on-1 conversations with people. Come with a humble heart and a desire to serve our Lord and the lost. Please pray this week for God to prepare us and the people we will talk to. All of your are encouraged to serve with us.

Time: 7:15 - 10:45 PM
Place: Meet at ACC (Carey Building) for prayer and training. We will carpool to 6th Street.
Bring: Small Bible, coat with pockets, bottle of water

"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it." (Mark 8:34-36)

In Christ,

Alex


PS - If you're still reading, I want to share something neat that came to mind as I was praying for this. I noticed how this outreach lines up with 3 of our upcoming vision statements!

1) Stepping out in faith helps us grow as disciples of Jesus Christ
2) Outreaches build godly commuinty as they have included people from the youth, college, adults, and even other ACC congregations. (the youth have a conference this weekend, though, so I don't want to take people out of that).
3) Sharing the gospel is the starting point for making disciples locally

Hope-It-Up Basketball Tournament

The ACC 3-3 Hoop-it-up fellowship basketball tournament will be Saturday, 3/29. We will again have an Open division and Mastor division. Deadline for registration will be 3/23. Please contact Troy Wong <etroywong@yahoo.com>; or Leo Yeung leoyeung@yahoo.com for registration information. See www.austinchinesechurch to download copy of the registration form. See attached word document for forms and more information.

Evangelism

EDIT: We want to thank Alice to helping out with worship and to Jason and TJ Poon who spoke to us about evangelism. They shared with us of some of the inhibitions of why we don't evangelize more often or what prevents us from sharing our stories with other people. A big issue is unbelief - "oh ye of little faith". Unbelief and fear are opposites of faith. Faith counters all and gives us the strength and courage to know that God is in charge and He is ultimately the one who leads people to Him. One very effective way of being a witness (btw, witnessing is not something we do, it's who we are) - is to share your own story with people. People love hearing stories so share it!

WHEN: Friday, February 29, 2008, 7:30 PM

WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

This week Jason Poon and his wife TJ will be speaking about
evangelism. We often feel ineffective at evangelism but what are we doing about it? How can we change that? (March 7 - next week - Alex will be leading us on an evangelism outreach on 6th street to put it into practice and really make it part of our lives.) Because we are a Chinese-American fellowship, how is our local missions field different from that of Caucasian
churches? Jason and TJ have recently joined Epic (Campus Crusade's
Asian-American branch) and have a special passion for minorities not normally
effectively reached by mainstream Caucasian churches. How can our love for our Lord and His extravagant sacrificial love enable us to be walking testimonies everywhere we go? Please join us this Friday to learn and know the importance of the task Jesus left us - to go preach His good news to all the nations baptizing them in His Name. (Matt 28:19).

Walking Testimony

WHEN: Friday, February 15, 2008, 7:30 PM

WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

This Friday, Nina Cheng-Lo is sharing with us her testimony of how she came to know the Lord and the journey she and God took. She's going to speak to us on His calling for her, listening to God, and what it means to be a walking testimony. Afterwards we'll be having a pizza making party as well to fellowship together at Ti Le's place (yum).

How to Be Rich

WHEN: Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:30 PM

WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

"Did you know that the topic of money is talked about more in the New Testament than Salvation? We spend our whole life trying to get rich. It is now time that we learn how to be

rich."

Houston's Simon Lee will be talking to us this Friday night about the topic of money and what it means to be rich. Please bring your Bible, pens, and notepads to Cornerstone on Friday. Since Faye will be staying in Houston, Simon needs to leave that night to go back to Houston. However, there will be another activity after Cstone.

EDIT: (Notes from Friday)

RICH PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE WITH OPTIONS.
(Some people really do not have any options. Take a missions trip to Africa or China and you'll really see the poverty firsthand. Participate and give your time and heart to an organization that you are really passionate about. Invest your heart and they'll invest their heart in you - long term committment to helping out an organization).

1 Timothy 6:17 - Paul talks about two things that we need to do:
1.) Repent of arrogance -
When we look at the poor - we judge them for what they don't have
When we look at the rich - we judge them for what they do have and what they do with it
We think that we know better... this is arrogance. Must repent and ask for forgiveness.
2.) Your hope in wealth
(best way to tell if you put your hope in wealth is to ask your parents or best friends honestly and humbly)
How to tell if you put money as your first priority in life?
a.) Does your lifestyel or debt impede your ability to live?
b.) Does fear of not having enough impede your giving? How much money is enough for you to be satisfied and comfortable?
c.) Which of these statements create most anxiety for you? There is NO God OR there is NO money in the bank?
d.) Do you have money in the bank but no peace in your hearts? Even if you dont' get a paychet, do you get your peace from God?

1 Timothy 6:18 - this is what Paul wants Timothy to tell rich people - "Command them to DO GOOD, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share... so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life."

Foundations are a great way to give your money and keep it for charity and help you be generous. (ask us for more information on this).

Your first fruits should be for God. Your choice foods should be there and not for yourself. HOW? Mark your calendars when the paycheck deposits and predetermine your giving and give to God first.

The amount to give, the amount to tithe should be an amount that God lays on your heart. It should reflect your own personal journey between you and God. Let's be a generation that gives lavishly.

Challenge: Giving hurts, when you give, it should hurt. if you're too comfortable about the amount you give, UP IT! It calls for faith and obedience in God.

Community Service led by "Peylin"'s Small group

WHEN: Friday, February 1, 2008, 6:45 PM

WHERE: Taylor Building (Gym), ACC

Want to help re-ignite the marriages of our ACC marrieds with kids? :) Eh..

Come help babysit so they can have a night to themselves - this is a great way to have some fun while serving the others in our congregation :)

An evite has been sent out from ACC Cornerstone so we can make sure we have a good big person to little person ratio. So get ready for a night of re-living our youth!

Please let us know by 1/30 if you can make it. Also if you have not received an evite - let us know and we'll send you the evite.

Prayer and Worship Night

Friday, January 25, 2008, 7:30 PM, Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

Annie Feng's Tuesday girls' small group is leading us in a time of prayer and worship this Friday.

In 1 Timothy 2:1, 3, Paul says, "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone... This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." Paul believed in the power of prayer so much that in verse 8 - he even writes,"I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing". Songs of worship are our very own prayers and words of praise and adoration to our God. Please come join us for this time of prayer and worship.

Afterwards, come to Ti's home to enjoy some games and comforting-perfect-for-the-season-homemade chili. 10:30pm, 12227 Antoinette Pl. 78727, 832-647-2293

Notes for 1/18/2008 - Knowing God

Detailed Notes of Speaker:

ACC's own Leslie Keng shared his personal stories with Cornerstone on how he came to know the Lord. In 1 Kings 17:7-16, Elijah assures a widow that the Lord will always provide for her with a never ending jar of flour and jug of oil, and in 2 Kings 4:8-37, the Lord saves a mother's dead son. Through these verses, Leslie spoke of times when your path in life is hardly ever what you envision it to be. Sometimes, God gives you a blessing and an open door (like the woman's son) and sometimes, you are faced with your biggest fear and need to make a decision. However, God's character never changes and can overcome any circumstance. Leslie challenged us when he asked "What is your dream? What is your greatest fear? If God takes away your dream and makes your greatest fear a reality, would you still desire God?".

Leslie Keng

• 1 Kings 17:7-16
• Elijah and the never ending jar of flour and oil for the widow
• 2 Kings 4:8-37
• God saves a woman's dead son
• What's your dream? What's your greatest fear?
• fear of failure like 1 Kings, fear of being insignificant, fear of death of loved ones like 2 Kings
• Veggietales founder Phil Vischer
• company went bankrupt
• new company called "Jellyfish" because jellyfish can only swim up and down (ourselves) but the current (God) actually moves them
• Leslie's story
• he and his wife had to make several financial and life changing decisions
• through prayer, God told them what to do even though it was risky
• God has always provided for Leslie and his family through tough times
• Microsoft Word
• most people only use about 20% of Microsoft Word's abilities
• maybe we're only using about 20% of what God wants for us (sanctification process)
• For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
  

Knowing God

(After Fellowship fun at Andy and Maril's house - look how concentrated they are on rockband. =))

January 18th, 7:30 PM, ACC, Carey (Lighthouse) Building

Come listen as Leslie Keng shares what it means to really know God - beyond the facts to the relationship. Join us as we embark on this journey of loving our God.

2008 Kickoff Social

Edit: (Look! Snoopy puzzle!)



January 11th, 7:30 PM, Pastor Gaylord and Tina's House (12911 Partridge Bend Drive, 78729)

We'll be kicking off the new year with a social event to get to know your fellowship members better. Hope to see you there! :)

January

Here's what we've got going on in January. Stay tuned for more details!

Fri 1/11 Beginning of the Year Kickoff! (Social)
Fri 1/18 Knowing God (Leslie Keng)

Merry Christmas!

We're breaking till January 11th - see you then! :)

A Charlie Brown Christmas!

December 21st, 2007, 7:30 PM, Ti's Place

We're watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on Friday! Join us for a time of relaxation and fellowship. We'll also be baking cookies (and whatever else you want to bake)!

Caroling and Christmas Party!

December 15th, 2007, 5:30 PM, Village at Collinwood Apts (1001 Collinwood West Dr.)

We're going caroling! Meet at the second group of buildings (by the main office) at 5:30pm. Join us as we share God's love and some Christmas joy to the elderly folks at this apartment complex.

Afterwards, we'll head over to Winston's house for some dumplings and a white elephant gift exchange! (If you'd like to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a present worth $10 or less.)

Please email acc.cornerstone@gmail.com if you haven't received the Evite.

Forgiveness and ACC Christmas Service

December 7th, 2007, 7:30 PM, ACC Carey (Lighthouse) Building

Pastor Gaylord will be speaking with us about Forgiveness. Please join us as we worship and fellowship together!


December 8th, 2007, 7-8PM, ACC Taylor Hall

All the ACC congregations will be getting together this Saturday for a time of celebrating Christ's birth! Join us as we sing Christmas carols, hear the Christmas story, and fellowship over yummy refreshments! (**Also, please bring your canned goods for the Capital Area Food Bank drive.)