Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Um, we should invite Enoch to this blog.

Monday, December 16, 2002

Lumps Core Meeting Notes 12/8/02

-1/2/02, Thursday, Wild-Card – Digital Photo Scavenger Hunt
-1/9/02 Thursday, Bible Study
-1/11/02 Saturday, Prayer Meeting – Sandra’s Sendoff Prayer Meeting
-1/14/02 Saturday, Men’s Ministry – Discipleship – Men’s Ministry
-1/16/02 Thursday, LG – “Dating/Courtship – The First Steps” – Pastor Jerry & Mrs.? Pastor John & Cyn? Owen & Amy? Tim & Kim? Couples from Phileo?
-1/23/02 Thursday, Bible Study
-1/30/02 Thursday, SG Wild Card Night
-2/6/02 Thursday, Bible Study
-2/13/02 Thursday, LG -Continuing on Relationship Theme – Role of a man and a woman in a relationship, marriage… etc. – Pastor John & Cyn? Other older married couples within SCBC?
-2/20/02 Thursday, Bible Study
-2/27/02 Thursday, Café Night – Organizers?
-3/6/02 Thursday, Bible Study
-3/13/02 Thursday, LG – Relationships – Sex – Pastor Jerry?
-3/20/02 Thursday, Bible Study
-3/27/02 Thursday, SG Wild Card Night
-March Winter Retreat

To-Do List
-Find Organizers for Winter Retreat (Thomas Chan, Jen Huynh? Eli Kuo? Combined with 2 others), Need to do soon!!!
-Find Organizers for 2/27/02 Café Night - ?????
-Sandra Sendoff – Slideshow CD’s, event? – Aileen? Daves? Alfred? Enoch?
-Contact Pastors John & Jerry and other potential LG Speakers for the LG talks on relationships
-Arrange Pre-Study Dates & Times for Bible Study

Sunday, November 17, 2002

Upcoming Schedule
11/7 - Bible Study
11/14 - Large Group – Bill Lee, Stewardship and Power of Prayer as a gauge for our relationship with God
11/17 – Pre- Study
11/21 – Bible Study
11/28 – Thanksgiving/Break
12/2 – Pre-study
12/5 – Bible Study
12/12 – Service Project
12/14 – Pre-Study
12/19 – Bible Study
12/26 – No Lumps
1/2/03 – Unofficial Lumps (Ice Cream Night?? Movie Night? Game Night?)
1/4/03 – Pre Study
1/9/03 – Bible Study
1/16/03 – Large Group (?)

Friday, August 09, 2002

My personal take on Lumps dynamics now

* The group’s in transition. Some old-timers are leaving. Some people not moving on to something new are getting a little nervous about change. Some are feeling the natural transition of roles and personal growth.

* There’s still a huge interest in fellowship and community for 20-somethings. Lu-La-Palooza added a big of energy to the group. I think you’ll probably see some momentum in interest in a few weeks to come. I think it boosted a lot of ownership. Did you realize that we had 80 people last night? It’s probably the biggest night we’ve had all year. There are some people who are making a renewed effort for fellowship in their lives.

* There isn’t much forecasting for the future in terms of growth. A little tough as I know you guys are seeking out transition in your roles/lives, feel a responsibility to the group, and might not be certain how to hand things over to the new generation. It can sometimes be a real struggle to lead with big questions ahead. And things are always changing...so you guys have to figure out still how to adapt, and can’t just duplicate the model done before.

Future Leadership

* The future is uncertain. Who’s going to lead? Who’s qualified? Who’s vested? Who’s going to stick around?

* Old core faced these same questions before. A lot of major questions, perhaps different in nature. It took a while of exploration, prayer, sharing, seeking out God’s guidance and discernment for the future of Lumps.

Establishing Leadership in 2000

* For the first time we really tried to move Lumps from month to month planning to a structure that was stronger, more cohesive, and more vision focused. It used to be whoever was available to plan and do stuff...did it. (Lumps offered a lot of openness in planning.) The group was a lot smaller.

* We were sort of changing the culture in Lumps...to something one might wrongly perceive as a hierarchy of leadership or elitism. But we wanted to avoid that by keeping Lumps really consciously accessible to anyone.

* We set up meetings to dialogue about vision in Lumps with whoever was interested. We noted areas of calling. JQ and I, both having some strength in administration. We each met up separtely with different groups of 6 or so people...to get a sense of people’s hearts and burdens for the group. This was right around when JQ was going to leave. After that JQ and I synched back up with each other, talked about it. It seemed pretty clear. Who was willing to put time into what...who was gifted at what. Then followed up with people individually. Not everyone we hoped to step up was available or felt that calling. But we soon discerened a balance of core leadership. After we got the structure in place, we clearly communicated it to all the rest of lumps a few times. (on e-mail...in large group, planning meetings.)

Transitioning Leadership in 2001

* Our first ever leadership transition. Something that helped a lot was trying to continually keep our Lumps planning and leading open to hearing people’s input and continually presenting on a monthly basis ways for people to get involved.

* Remember the series of “state of Lumps” meetings and vision meetings last year with old core? I don’t know if we directly expressed it...but probably the primary agenda item was to use it to seek out potential leaders. From them we saw glimpses into your hearts, wisdom, and maturity of you guys. I remember seeing in you solid outward communication and expression of a mature faith. It’s been exciting for me to see you guys continue to grow from that point over the past year.

* We talked about potentials in the core meetings. Gave you guys opportunities to stretch yourselves and exercise your hearts for the fellowship. (starting in the summer started to share responsibilities with different people.) It seemed that god was confirming what we were praying about. We talked to you guys individually.

* We corporately announced the new leadership at retreat. Then we followed up with that on e-mail.

* We met up with you guys a couple of times early on to brief you and to share with you.

* I had an unofficial role to help with the transition. (Everyone else was gone and I had the time and heart for it.) This is what some of you might be possibly doing in various capacities. Helping out newer leadership and still serving the fellowship.

I wanted to give you guys some context and help in terms of how you guys are figuring out how to hand things over to new people. It’s up to you what your timeline is...but it’s a really good idea to coincide the timing with the introduction of a new study curriculum, new page in lumps content.

It’d be good if you found the people...to make the announcement at retreat. If you’re not ready yet...give some public insight and acknowledgement to core/leadership transitioning and that it’s to come. As much as possible...it’s good to not let a mysterious Wizard of Oz curtain separate you and the people. Keep things open and accessible. Continually make it easy for people who are shy to learn about lumps involvement and how they can make a difference.


But anyways...I wanted to give you guys some context and help in terms of how you guys are figuring out how to hand things over to new people. It’s up to you what your timeline is...but it’s a really good idea to coincide the timing with the introduction of a new study curriculum, new page in lumps content.

It’d be good if you found the people...to make the announcement at retreat. If you’re not ready yet...give some public insight and acknowledgement to core/leadership transitioning and that it’s to come. As much as possible...it’s good to not let a mysterious Wizard of Oz curtain separate you and the people. Keep things open and accessible. Continually make it easy for people who are shy to learn about lumps involvement and how they can make a difference.


Other random thoughts, some from talking to you guys...

* Another idea...Continually solicit input from all the servants in the fellowship. Don’t forget worship, hospitality, etc. If the group’s too big to get together...then break it up into different meetings for you guys to separately handle

* Maybe one of the nights at the end of the month could be like a Lumps retreat preview nite. Something to build upon the body life and hope for the retreat. That’s what was done last year with Mary and the newspaper skit nite. Get people into the mindset and understand the intentions/theme for the retreat. Retreat’s like 5 weeks away right? Seems like momentum is really slow with it. It would also be a way for you to check in with the retreat leaders

* Work with people to run the missions recap nite. Let them emcee it. Do the coordination with the summer missionaries. Let them hype it asap. Let other people talk and represent Lumps. Give them feedback and guidance. Put people in a position to be stretched by God.

* Get another café nite/outreach event going. Maybe end of September? Or October? (Even if you won’t be serving on Core then...doesn’t mean that you should not forecast and plan somewhat for the months to come. It would help out new core a lot and give them guidance into what they can do. You probably need a month to plan. Maybe 4-8 weeks to reserve a spot. I think that it would be best if you don’t have your next one at church...but rent out an offsite venue.
Do it on a Thursday...if you hope to get people to find Lumps as a follow-up venue to learn about God and faith. Café nites were all about “creative expressions of life and faith.”

- I think good venues would be the Canvas café (they do rent out the place...we were looking at it for our banquet a year ago...we do have money to put towards it too). Another good place would be 1640 post, where Locus is held. It’s the perfect place to have a café nite (stage, sounds system, tables, chairs, serving area, casual atmosphere, etc.) eli and I talked to the girl who could potentially provide the rental hook-up thru their organization. I think it’s under $200...a steal. Eli only met her once tho, and that was a year ago...but I bet he could make something work...he’s have to go to another Locus event again tho.

- To do effective event outreach, you have to put it out there early. You can get listed in AsianWeek...but to do that I think you need to get your info/theme/date specifics figured out like 3-4 weeks ahead of time to submit.
it’s another really great event that unites the fellowship. Don’t be afraid to get big events going. Just don’t do the nitty gritty. There are others like Enoch out there who are willing and capable of the coordination. (maybe they might be better at activities than for vision stuff). Maybe Core (current or future) can lend some vision and focus and let them handle the specifics. There are so many experienced people who’ve served in their college fellowships, you know.
Remember the little ways of building up community. Don’t drop the birthdays. The purpose was to acknowledge the personal. I think faith and fellowship goes hand in hand into all the aspects of the personal life.

* Acknowledge and send-off the regulars leaving. That’s a big part about community. It’s easy to forget those little things as Lumps gets huge. Acknowledge their presence, contribution, servanthood. (I’m not really talking about me...but about the others who might slip thru...like Amy, Owen, JasonChang who will be moving on.) Maybe others...Jacob, Dylan, Felicia, Jessica, ChrisChan. Maybe whoever moved on this year since retreat or is about to move on. In ministry and with a lot of things in life, it’s so easy to start thing well but not end things well. Closure, resolution, and change is important. Lumps is all about change...and it’s also good to acknowledge it properly. I think that it’s healthy to embrace, welcome, and ride out change...and not just ride things out from how things used to be. A good time to acknowledge the leaders would be at retreat. It would be best coming from you guys...instead of Enoch/Kim.

Just show people where to step up...and they will. I know Lumps will continue on and grow. Pray for their hearts, for God’s spirit of discernment. Don’t be afraid to dream and pray big for Lumps. I think Vision is about reaching for what’s directly within reach under your own power...and looking to God’s hand to achieve those things. Talk to them about their concerns or personal fears. Encourage them and build them up. Lend a bigger perspective. Affirm what you see that is good on a personal level.

I’ll put this stuff also on the core blog for knowledge management for the future leadership.

Okiedoke. I hope some of this is helpful to you guys.

Tuesday, May 07, 2002

lumps world missions 2002 guide (prayer guide)
1. sherise, sandra, james y.

dates JULY 11-AUGUST 14

place CENTRAL ASIA

people ministering to STUDENTS, UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUP

what you'll be doing TEACHING ENGLISH AT A SUMMER ENGLISH PROGRAM, FOSTERING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE LOCALS

about your team/organization SPONSORED BY SCBC, HEADED BY PIONEERS INTERNATIONAL

2. Andy and Eli

Dates - May 31st - June 16th

Place - East Asia

People Ministering To - High school graduates entering trade vocations

What We'll be Doing - Teaching English and other classes like sports
and culture

Organization - Home of Christ (16 people) and King's College (8)

3. kim y., mary, james k., johnny, jason c., greg h., thomas, mike c.

dates (july 13-28) (july 13-aug 24) mary, (july 13-may 30 2003) kim y.
place (thailand-lopburi)
people ministering to (lopburi students - mostly high school)
what you'll be doing (teaching english)
about your team/organization (scbc team of 8people. plus 1 from omf- dr .smith)

khobobes: also, i'm not sure if i'll be here on june 13th
khobobes: will need to get back to you
aileenoka: just choose a date better for you and your team.
khobobes: ok...

4. jason yee

hey aileen,

here's the info:

dates: unknown (whenever i raise 100% support til whenever God calls me
to pursue something else)

place: littleton, colorado to the rest of the world via the internet

people ministering to: christians, primarily college aged and 20-30
somethings.

what you'll be doing: developing a website and internet community to
disseminate missions information and encourage christians to follow
God's leading wherever it may go.

about your team/organization: Caleb Project challenges the Church to
complete the task of world evangelization by taking the gospel to the
least-evangelized people groups of the world. Caleb Project provides
tools to facilitate this process for churches, missions agencies, and
other ministries. for more info: www.calebproject.org

-jason (and his psychotic alter-ego, jyee)

5. pei-chieh

dates: 6/25 to 7/21

>place: taiwan (8 different stops at different cities)

>people ministering to: elementary and middle school, adults

>what you'll be doing: i will be in charge of the young adult missionaries and the teaching material at 3 different stations, and I will also be teaching. We will be teaching English.

>about your team/organization: Evangelical Formosan Church of Irvine. 12 adults, 15 young adults. We will be divided into 3 different teams for the first 2 weeks, with each team at a different station. The third week, it will be divided into 2 teams for two stations. The young adults will mostly be in charge of the teaching of elementary, middle, and high school with possilbe some college students also. The adults are giving health related seminars and adult English classes. There are also English camps at some stations. With all the English classes taught by the young adults, a chance to proclaim their faith in God will be given at the end of the week. God has really done amazing things; schools in taiwan are opening up and helping with the sign ups, which is so out of the ordinary. The spiritual warfair is very strong there in Taiwan, and many have not heard of Jesus in their entire life. Our teaching material is composed of the Gospel. Please pray for the presence of the Holy Spirit to be with us and that we will be sensitive to God's direction and guidance through out the trip.

6. Drew Yamamoto

dates May 21st - Jun 17th

place Daegu South Korea

people ministering to World Cup Soccer Fans

what you'll be doing Sharing the gospel through prayer, acts of service, and street evangelism
about your team/organization SPONSORED BY Onnuri Church

7. aileen oka

dates june 1-july 18

place ebetsu, japan (on hokkaido)

people ministering to university students at Rakuno university

what you'll be doing helping with ongoing campus outreach

about your team/organization OMF team of 3 women

8. derek joe ?

Sunday, May 05, 2002

calendar of events:

may 8th--cityteam

may 9th--lg nite: first of 4series of "loving outside the box" "no greater love"

may 11th--prestudy, women's conference

may 15th--cityteam

may 16th--jonah 3 sg study, pass out/talk about lumps ST missionaries prayer sheet, sg vision share?

may 17th--welcome dinner

may 23rd--sg nite get togethers--w/ theme (cook at pep's houses, play games)

may 30th--malibu olympics (outreach)

june 1st--prestudy; prayer fellowship meeting 9:30-11am (w/ pei-chieh, jason yee?)

june 6th--jonah 4 and sharing

june 13th--encouraging/rebuking and sharing

june 15th--prestudy

june 20th--jonah in review and sharing

lg nites: large group (2nd week of month) nights will be
challenging LUMPS to love as God loves, outside of the
box, in a different way than the world does/says to.

may 9th: "no greater love", John 15 vs. 12 - 14 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.

june 13th: loving by encouraging one another and rebuking one
another (or receiving it)

july 11th: loving by remaining sexually pure (in thought and
action). think about honoring your future spouse.
consider God's standard of holiness. (cyn fong share?)

july 25th: the community night or 4th night of the month will
have mike lai's friend share on her testimony of
obedience to His way, as she turned away from
homosexuality.

august 8th: loving by keeping one another accountable and
praying for one another or even for those you don't
know

september 12th: pre-retreat

sharing:
may 9th--(lg nite) andy pan and eli kuo on east asia mission for may 31st departure
may 16th--(sg nite)
drew yamamoto on fifa world cup street evangelism in south korea for
may 21st departure

june 6th--(sg nite)
(1) pei-chieh on taiwan mission,
(2) jason yee on full-time caleb project ministry (fundraising)

june 13th--(lg nite)
scbc east asia team representative for july 11th departure

june 20th--(sg nite)
(1) scbc thailand team representative and
(2) kim yee--1 year OMF associate in thailand for july 13th departure

august ?
(1) jason yee on full-time caleb project ministry (send off) or as your
schedule becomes more clear...
(2) cyn fong on full-time ministry in HK

september 5th--(sg nite)
sandra lee on indonesia mission for mid september departure (send off)

sg:

6/20 jonah in review
6/15 prestudy
6/6 jonah 4
6/1 prestudy
5/23 sg get togethers
5/17 welcome dinner
5/16 jonah 3
5/2 jonah 2
4/27 prestudy
4/25 sg get togethers
4/18 jonah 1
4/13 prestudy and sg vision/lunch
4/4 jonah in preview
LUMPS Ministries

david
1. multimedia (dave shih, gw)
2. audio/visual (david chi, pastor john)
3. worship (david chi)
4. event planning (david chi, mike lai?)
5. logistics (david chi)

mike lai
1. information: roster, weekly email announcements, newcomer information, aliases (gw, tim millbrae, mike lai)
2. men's ministry (enoch, dshinn?)
3. welcome/hospitality (tim millbrae, allison?, jimmy?)

mary yung
1. cityteam (kim yee)
2. retreat coordinators (mary)
3. future sg leaders (mary, pastor john)

aileen oka
1. prayer (alfred)
2. women's ministry (aileen)
3. birthdays (aileen)
4. mission's coordinator (?)

interested persons in ministries:

multimedia (dave shih, gw)
jon ho (hosmurf@yahoo.com)
tim millbrae

audio/visual (david chi, pastor john)
kim chew (run powerpoint during worship)

worship (david chi)
nick chan (sideoutnc@aol.com)
pei-chieh
kim chew (sing)
jon ho
bonnie pau (bon530@hotmail.com)

announcements (mike lai?)
no one

cityteam (kim yee)
daniel hsu (can't read his email address, contact tim millbrae)
allison fong (baerchen2279@yahoo.com)
tiffany leung
katherine kuo (katinsf99@hotmail.com)
hong tran (no email given)

prayer (alfred)
anna kim (annakim123@yahoo.com) (i can pray)
andy pan
stan wang

women's ministry (aileen)
allison fong
tina ng
tiffany leung
kim chew
amy lee (aims626@yahoo.com) (but no girlie stuff)
bonnie pau
christina li

men's ministry (enoch, dshinn?)
nick chan
matthew jung (mgjung@juno.com)
dave shih
jimmy teng (tengboy@aol.com)
alfred leong
dan shinn

event planning (david chi, ?)
tina ng
tim millbrae
amy lee
bonnie pau
jimmy teng
alfred leong
katherine kuo

birthdays (aileen)
tim millbrae

retreat coordinators (mary, david chi)
tina ng (if she's still in the bay area)
jimmy teng
enoch chang

future sg leaders (mary, pastor john)
james kung (jlkung_98@yahoo.com)
tina ng (if she's still in the bay area)
johnny wu (jabrone316@yahoo.com0
enoch chang
stan wang

mission's coordinator (?)
no one.

logistics (david chi,?)
bonnie pau

other ministry suggestions (core)
"use me, i can fill any gap. wild cards?" --owen tran (he checked all areas)
"i'll help out any way I can...=)" --jimmy teng
"gap filler :)"--GW

information (gw?, ?)
bonnie pau

welcome/hospitality (tim millbrae, flew, allison, jimmy?)
kim chew
stan wang

Friday, March 01, 2002

LUMPS Worship Teams Roster (as of 2/25/02)

Team A (first week)
Norm Moy
Jason Yee
Kim Chew
Jon Fong
Amy Lee
Anna Kim

Team B (second week)

David Chi
Christina Li
Pete Chan
Pei-Chieh Fong
Vickie Yan
Jon Ho

Team C (third week)

David Chi
James Yan
Bonnie Pau
Jessica Mah
Mike Chung
Felicia Lew