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Olivia Odhiambo, secretary of Sophie Davis’s CMA - livyzee(at)yahoo.com - wrote:

Fall 2008 Events

1) CMA weekly meetings (Every Wednesday) at the City College of New York campus.

2) Hunger and Homelessness awareness week: November 16-22, 2008.

Each year, one week before Thanksgiving, National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness co-sponsor National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. During this week, a number of schools, communities and cities take part in a nationwide effort to bring greater awareness to the problems of hunger and homelessness.
The CCNY chapter of CMA plans to work alongside Students Helping Out (SHOUT) and the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) during this week. Any donations will be greatly appreciated.

3) Operation Christmas Child: November 17 – 24, 2008.

Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God’s love. Since 1993, more than 61 million shoe boxes have been packed, shipped, and delivered across the globe. People of all ages can be involved in this simple, hands-on missions project while focusing on the true meaning of Christmas—Jesus Christ.
The CCNY chapter of CMA plans to collect monetary donations, shoeboxes, and gifts throughout this week in an attempt to bring joy to the lives of young ones throughout the world. Again, donations are welcome.

4) Sunday Worship: December 7, 2008.

On December 7th we plan to host a Sunday Service on campus. We hope to invite Christian doctors and Youth leaders to direct the service and speak about their experiences during their years in Medical School and how Jesus was a part of their journey. This event will be held on the CCNY campus.

Spring 2008 Events

1) See you at the Pole

The CCNY chapter of CMA will be hosting this every semester as a prayer/worship event. It is scheduled for January 26, 2009. 8am - 9am.

2) International Praise and Worship Night: April 3, 2009.

April is our chapter’s month to host an InterMed-wide event. International Praise and Worship Night will be that event.

Last semester’s event was a huge success, and we hope next semester’s will be as well. The theme for last year’s event was rock the world. This year, we hope to have a theme that will somehow be linked directly to an organization we hope to support through voluntary donations.
Students will be able to perform poetry and recitations, sing, play instruments, dance, etc. Dinner and dessert will be served. It will take place in the Faculty Dining Room on CCNY’s campus. This event is free, and is open to the whole CCNY community. Souvenirs will be placed on each table for attendees to take with them.

–
Brian Nishinaga, an MS II at Einstein:

Albert Einstein’s Christian Fellowship would like to invite you to:
Who: Intermed!
What: Trip to the world renowned Bronx Zoo
When: Saturday Oct. 25th from 1 pm - 4 pm (or whenever you want to be there) The zoo is open from 10am - 5:30 pm and admission is $15.
Why: bc people don’t realize that the bronx offers more than J-Lo and Dunkin’ Donuts

If everyone could please try to get there around 1 pm, then we can randomly split up the different schools into different groups so that peoples can get to know one another instead of clumping together in your school fellowships. Plan on eating lunch beforehand and perhaps we can arrange dinner options at local restaurants for those who are interested.

the website, in case you want to check out what’s going on is:

http://www.bronxzoo.com/plan-your-trip/hours-and-rates.aspx

Access to the zoo is via the Bx12 which you can get to by taking the 1 train to 207th street.

Please forward this email to your respective fellowships and pass the word on to anyone who is interested! Contact me at bnishina(at)aecom.yu.edu to RSVP or if you want more details.

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.