Large Group #4: Calvinism and Rag Retreat commentary

Hey there fellow siblings in Christ,

DISCLAIMER: Even though today's large group spoke about Calvinism, CCF does not in any way promote or belittle any particular view. We welcome all, and we're all up for discussion to challenge our views and help one another grow in our understanding and faith in God :)

That being said, today Tim gave an overview of what Calvinism is and what it means to him, as it's something he has thought about a lot in the past. Afterwards, we talked a bit about the rag retreat happening next week (if you're interested, you should sign up! Contact Madeleine)

Read on for the full description (I found that Tim's own notes were much more detailed than mine, but I've recorded some questions people asked during the meeting, so here's a mixture of the two):

Welcome all the prefrosh!

Tomorrow is the first day of classes at Caltech, and we're excited to welcome in the new freshmen. Friday evening, those of us who were here gathered in Avery library, and the prefrosh out-numbered the upperclassmen! It was a very blessed time as we sang some songs, introduced each other, answered the questions the prefrosh had, and socialized over frozen yogurt at Cherry on Top. Prefrosh, I know I'm going to forget your names -- there were just so many of you!

Next up on the schedule is the club fair Wednesday afternoon. We normally will have Monday night large groups, but we're skipping this week due to rotation. If you're a prefrosh, make sure to sign up at our table for our mailing lists. If you're an upperclassmen, come by and spend some time talking with the prefrosh and each other! Then we have our big kick-off large group of the term on Monday, October 3, from 7:30 to 9pm in Avery library again.

I hope this blog is a useful communication method for this year. Look for a post soon about the pre-term retreat which happened about a week ago.

Sam Elder

CCF Large Group Coordinator 2011-12