CEF Stanford to Hold 12th Joint University Fall Retreat in California

By Eunice Or

The Chinese Christian Evangelistic Fellowship (CEF) at the Stanford University is going to host the 12th Joint University Fall Retreat at the Redwood Glen Camp & Conference Center near Santa Cruz in California on September 2-5.

The retreat themed as "Reflecting Life Again" aims to provide an opportunity for university students to mediate upon their relationship with Christ and the significance of Christian faith to China. It welcomes university students from the Stanford University, the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Francisco and the University of California Davis.

Speakers of the retreat are respected scholars, such as Dr Liu Tong Su , a theology graduate of the University of Yale and member of the Board of Editors for the Chinese Christian magazine Christian Life Quarterly.

There will be a number of theme-based seminars during the retreat, including "Christ and Suffering", :Christ and me", "From follow me to follow me- a journey of Christian" and others.

For further details of the retreat, please visit http://cef.stanford.edu/retreat2005/index.html.

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