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Approximately 60 students and 3 attendings from Columbia, Cornell, Mount Sinai, New York COM, New York Medical College (NYMC), New York University (NYU), Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ), Sophie Davis, SUNY-Downstate, and Touro COM, attended this gathering held in Riverbank State Park. We were blessed by a brisk but sunny October day. Worship was led by a couple students and then David Chen from RWJ helped break the ice by having everyone introduce themselves and then have us spray each other with silly string! After grace was said by Dr. Ako Tabetah, a picnic lunch was served. Group photos of those attending were taken and those present broke off to fellowship with each other. Dr. Ali Ko offered spiritual support to the students as well as opportunities to meet with Christian Attendings.

Kelly Siano has put out a schedule for NYMC:

NYMC Schedule for Fall-Winter 2008:

LARGE GROUP FELLOWSHIP MEETINGS:
Tuesdays @ 7pm: October 14, October 21, October 28

SPECIAL EVENTS:
Dr. Travin - November 18 @ 7pm
Christmas Party - December 9 @ 7pm

COMMUNITY SERVICE:
NY Cares Service Event - October 18
Thanksgiving Service Event - November 27

ON-GOING SMALL GROUPS:
Reading and Bible study groups!

Elijah Kim helped set up this talk with Dr. Harold Paul Adolph. Dr. Adolph spoke at Surgery Grand Rounds at Beth Israel on October 2, 2008 at 8 am and then with InterMed at 7 pm at NYU School of Medicine. He spoke about how God has answered his prayers during his career as a missionary doctor and surgeon, spending time in areas as diverse as Taiwan, Bangladesh, Niger, and Ethiopia. Students from Albert Einstein, Columbia, Mt. Sinai, and NYU attended this event to hear the words of this career missionary. He encouraged all those who are led to missions work and advised those interested to seek a residency with a broad experience. Please look at the website of the hospital in Ethiopia that he help build - www.soddo.org and how surgeons in this country may spend their time training local physicians overseas - www.paacs.net

Ted Ferenczy states:

This year, the focus of our weekly bible studies will be examining Christianity as both a family and a community.

Through studying the bible, eating meals, playing games and serving the community together we hope to foster the development of friendships between class years at Downstate.

We’d also like to introduce our students to Christian attendings in the area and provide the opportunity for those relationships to form.

We meet every Thursday night at 5:30pm at the Downstate Student Center, Reading Room at 394 Lenox Rd. Brooklyn, NY 11203. Dinner to follow at 6:45 pm.

Upcoming gatherings:
Thurs, Oct. 2 Dr. Ko; being a Christian attending physician.
Thurs, Oct. 9 Social event: Keith and Sharon’s apt
Thurs, Oct 16 Bible study: Prodigal son; the father
Thurs, Oct 23 Bible study: Prodigal son; the elder brother
Thurs, Oct 23 Bible study: Singleness/relationships/dating

Service Project: (in progress)
Fri, Nov. 7 we are looking into/planning on helping with the “Dine and Learn Healthy Man” Symposium at the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

Albert Lee had this to say about the September 17th fellowship luncheon:

Praise the Lord for giving us a great start for the year! First general meeting of NYCOM CMDA was a great success. About ten new members came to the meeting and worshiped God with us. We spent some time introducing CMDA to students, sharing our vision, and talking about upcoming events.
We prayed together, sang praises together, and had fellowship. It was very exciting and it’s more exciting to think of what God is going to do this year!

Vinitha Jacob says:

Dr. Katherine Grimm (voluntary faculty in Pediatrics), whom many of you met on Wednesday, has graciously offered to host a dinner for the Sinai and Cornell fellowships on Saturday, September 27th at 5pm. It will be at her home on Roosevelt Island. Unfortunately, I will be away that weekend and won’t be able to attend, but I do encourage you all to go if you can. Please RSVP directly to her at 212.751.4737 (kteetsgrimm@gmail.com).

This fundraiser was a roaring success with about 70 people attending in support of a medical missions to Haiti, organized by MedMissions. All present were treated to a dinner of Haitian food and to four hours of rocking music and worship!!

Led by medical students from Downstate, Mark Saintjour and Adeline Abraham, the missions trip will be going from December 26 - Jan 2 this year. So far the list of those students going (from the greater NYC medical schools) includes:
Mark & Adeline, Jeanette Tse, Moeun Sun, Terry Kay, Benjamin Lok, Brandon Hayes, Sophia Morriseau, Sarah Jones, Sharon Daniel, Keith Chu, William Freed-Pastor, Victor Nivar, Sam Mathews, Winnifred Lamarre, Charles Esenwa, and Ashley Treece (from California), as are Drs. Gardy Valentin, Gates (from Texas) with his wife and daughter, and the founder of MedMissions, Dr. Brent Hambrick. Twelve physicians in Haiti will also be traveling with the group as local contacts and mentors.

The fundraiser was held at NYU School of Medicine in room SLH E. We would like to thank all those who performed that night for donating their time and energy and for rocking the place for four hours! God bless Ted Ferenczy, Cate Song, Steve Brown, DMP & One Accord, Lighthouse, members of Crossroad Tabernacle, The David Metayer Creole Project, Denny Simon and John Seale, and Sophia’s father, Mr. Morriseau. Of course, several of the students who are going to Haiti participated in organizing the event, but a special shout-out must be given to Elijah Kim who played the part of a hapless nonbeliever.

Money is tight for this group of warm-hearted individuals who seek to administer to the poor and spread the Gospel in Haiti. Checks can be made out to MedMissions; you may contact Marc at marc.saintjour(at)downstate.edu or Terry at terryjkay(at)gmail.com as to where to send your gifts. Medications can also be donated. See here for a list of medications that are being requested. Chloroquine 250 mg for anti-malaria prophylaxis is also wanted.

Columbia Christian Fellowship (CCF) is an inter-denominational, student-run organization at the Health Sciences campus of Columbia University in the City of New York. Though we are based on the Health Sciences Campus we welcome students from any of the schools at Columbia, and indeed any other school, to join us for our weekly meetings. CCF meets each week on Thursdays at 7:30pm in Tower I, 60 Haven Avenue. Join us for a time of praise and worship, Bible study, prayer and informal fellowship as seek to center our minds in reverence to God and His Word and to find spiritual unity.

More information can be found on the CCF website: http://ccf.hs.columbia.edu/

For directions or any other questions about CCF, email: rrh2117(at)columbia.edu

Einstein Christian Fellowship, also known as ECF, is a student run Christian fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in Bronx, NY.

We typically meet every Tuesday from 7:30 - 9:15 pm in Belfer 714
ALL are welcome - medical/graduate students, post docs, staff, faculty, & visitors.

Check our calendar on Google to see when and where we’re meeting!
Click here!

Visit our website! www.einsteincf.googlepages.com

For more information, contact us at einsteincf@gmail.com

Because of the white coat ceremony on Monday, September 15th, the next fellowship gathering will be Monday, September 22nd. Please meet at 8 pm in the student lounge conference room. Fellowship meetings will meet at 8 pm on Mondays on a regular basis- three meetings a month will be Bible study with some refreshments and the fourth meeting will consist of a dinner or something special. Contact Vinitha at (516) 946-6766 or via e-mail at vinitha.jacob@mssm.edu for more details!