Attended members: Carmen, Andrew, Auntie Rosalie, Joseph, and Jane
Place: Joseph's home
Date: Sept 29, 04 (Wednesday)

Topic: Who is Jesus

Format: We watched the DVD," The Jesus film", on Jospeh' laptop. We began with prayer and presented the bible to Carmen. ^^ Then we watched the whole movie. Afterwards, we had an discussion and set some goals for next week. Finally, we closed with a prayer.

Discssions: Due to the time limit, our discsussions was rather brief. We first talked about our thoughts about this movie and then we compared the movie "passion" with this movie. We generally all liked this movie better because it talks more about the miracles and the greatness of Jesus, while "the passion" was too graphic and violent.

Goal setting:
Andrew - to pray everyday
Joseph - to pray for Carmen everyday
Carmen - to read the bible everyday!!
Jane - to reach out to at least one person daily.

Comments: The Jesus film was based on the gospel of Luke. It was very touching because in addition to showing the whole life of Jesus, it shows all the "golden" moments and bible verses. We all agreed that it was very moving to see in 3-d how Jesus performed the miracles and how he died for us as an atonement for our horrible sins. The atmosphere was good ! We watched the video at Joesph's house and it was very causal and relaxing. Home is indeed a very good place to meet.

Suggestion for imporvment: During the video, Carmen rasied some questions about Christianity. For example, what is the passover and what does the word "Messiah" means. Although we were able to answer her questions, I think it would be better if we could prepare more ahead of time so that we could anticipate the questions that new believers might come up and be able to answer their questions better.