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ISI M28 Bible Discovery Groups

WHEN & WHERE--
updated Jan. 2025--
weekly M28 groups @ UCSC Family Student Housing Community Room and Zoom
 WINTER QUARTER  2025
​starting Jan 8
    Wednesday 6 - 7:30 p.m  Santa Cruz time

               = 9 am Beijing Time

WHO is it for?
any UCSC international student/scholar/ family member.
You do  not need to be a Christian, 
We discuss spiritual meaning of Bible passages,
   focused on our relationship with God through Christ
     and how to apply it to our lives
along with practicing English
The Bible is one of the literary, religious and philosophical foundations of Western civilization
so well worth studying for intellectual, as well as spiritual insight.

WHAT do we study?
following the simple M28 format
​
The facilitator for each meeting, consults with each group and chooses a passage of the bible
for each session according to their interest. 

        Here is a list of great Bible  passages related to Coronavirus


-------------------------------------------------
May 3, 2020
continuing  M28 Bible study (and all ISI meetings)
 online only until further notice, likely until at least September 2020.


March 21, 2020
  Under Shelter-At-Home orders 
    
until at least April 7, or more likely until June or August:
​
      .(formerly in McHenry Library
Some alumni back home in China also want to join,
so we are NOW discussing best schedule to include both
     Santa Cruz Time (Pacific Standard Time) 
 and Beijing Time (15  hours ahead)
OTHER possible times:
S-M-T-W-Th

Mon/Wed/Thurs
    7 or 8 am Santa Cruz MORNING time
= 10 or 11 pm same day, Beijing NIGHT time

OR
S-M-T-W-Th
     8 or 9 pm Santa Cruz NIGHT time
=  11 or 12 am next day Beijing NOON time 


January 2017 -- Check with Peggy for current Bible study groups you can join

You are welcome, whatever your religious/faith background
 for friendly discussion of various parts of the Bible, make friends and  practice your English
All international students, scholars and their families welcome to either of these informal, but vigorous discussion.


ISI's M28 Study
 We choose a different part of the Bible each meeting.
 The facilitator guides us through a list of significant questions to:
  • Connect with each other,
  • Analyze what the passage says
  • Discuss how we each can apply it in our lives.
  • Pray 
No prior knowledge or experience needed. Come for spiritual growth, friendship, or just to practice your English. 

We rotate facilitator role each meeting. Everyone takes turns guiding it as we coach you to feel confident following our simple M28 guidelines for maximum learning.  Thus no matter where around our small globe your brilliant career takes you, you are trained and prepared to find or start your own spiritual fellowship group wherever you land next.
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