2011-2012 Winter Classes (starting in Dec 2011)
English
Adult/College Sunday
School
English Sunday School 9:30am–10:45am
E101 Alpha Class (Room 127)
Target: non-believers
Teachers: CK Su, Steven Poon, Sam Yamamura
Alpha is an opportunity to explore the meaning of life. We will learn in a fun and friendly atmosphere where no question about life or God is seen as too simple or too hostile…questions like— Is there a God? Why am I here? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Alpha is for anyone…anyone who thinks there may be more to life than meets the eye. Please join us to investigate questions about the existence of God, the purpose of life, the afterlife, the claims of Jesus and more. Some people want to get beyond religion and find a relationship with God that really changes life. Others come for the close, long-lasting friendships that are built during the Alpha course.
E222 Drawing near to God Through Prayer (Room 137) Target: Christian Teacher : Pauletta & Will Martin/Buil Lee
Grow closer to God by developing a faith-deepening prayer life. Remove blocks that hold you back from a life of joyful prayer. Practice ways to grow closer to God through on-going conversation. Experience approaches to prayer that will move you inward, upward, and outward.
Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will be able to:
• Grow closer to God and deepen your faith through prayer.
• Pray simply and pray using Scripture.
• Apply Scriptural principles to your prayer life.
• Confidently include Biblical elements in your prayers:
- Praising
- Confessing
- Thanking
- Asking
- Listening
E315 The Book of Ezra (Aparche House Upstairs)
Target: Young Adult Christians Teachers: Elder KT
The Book of Ezra tells the story of the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylonian captivity and the rebuilding of the temple under Zerubbabel. Once Ezra had brought his readers to that significant milestone (515 B.C.), he skipped over the next 58 years and picked up the narrative again with his own journey to Jerusalem in the company of another contingent of repatriates (458 B.C.). The Book of Ezra, like the Exodus and Book of Nehemiah, recites the great redemptive act of God who himself initiates and carries forward the return of the Chosen People. God, not Ezra or Nehemiah, and especially not Darius or Artaxerxes, is the great Actor in this account. His word is the efficient power and His will directs the course of events. As before, His grace calls His Elect People from bondage and leads them through the perils of the wilderness and into the Land of Promise, where His grace does not desert them.
Course Goal: As His children, we will do well to listen to these records as the Word of God and apply to our own lives for our own renewal under God.
E301 Genesis (Aparche House Main Room) Target: Christian Teachers : Lily Su, Elder Don Hong
Genesis in the Greek means “origin” and in Hebrew means “in the beginning.” Thus Genesis is the beginning of all things except for God which He tells us “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” And therefore God was there or existed before the beginning of time. Genesis is about origins – of the world, the human race, of God’s chosen Jewish people, and of sin. It is also about redemption as God brings lost people back to himself. In an increasingly secular and pluralistic society today, a study of Genesis reminds us that the Hebrew nation was founded with a definite purpose that through it the whole world will be blessed. In a faithless society, Genesis will give us encouragement through the faithfulness of God of history.
Course Goal: Unquestionably to re-impress upon the believers’ heart that the underlying purposes of God – for us specifically and man generally – are bound up in His creation of the heavens and the earth which provide the arena for His activity. And importantly to learn that we are created as the image of God.
E202 College Group Series: Christian Fitness II
(Room 133-135)
Teacher: George Chen
Target: Christians
Christian Fitness II is a balance of both instruction and practice in the life that honors and glorifies the Lord. Understanding the essentials of healthy Christian living about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Sin & Salvation, Savior & Lordship, etc. Exercising the life that God wants us to be in the Word, prayer, fellowship and witnessing. "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves" James 1:22.
"As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving" Colossians 2:6-7
Youth Sunday School 9:30am–10:45am
7th – 8th Grade (Sha’tiel House)
9th – 12th Grade, High School (Sha’tiel House)
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