From Angelina Chen:


Thank you for praying for Bridges Thanksgiving dinner in NYC on November 16.

Despite of the rain,we had a great turnout. Among the 70 guests were international students from East Asia, Taiwan, Korea, Peru, Japan and France. They represented Columbia, NYU, Pace University, LaGuardia College. There were about 25 volunteers from our partnership Trinity Baptist church, who prepared wonderful traditional Thanksgiving meal. Our speaker Kevin King gave a great gospel presentation.

Praise God for opportunity to serve our international friends. Among them, 17 indicated decision for Christ, 12 expressed desire to learn more about Christianity, receive a free Bible or visit a church, 19 wanted more information on the conversation groups.

Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Religion: "An evangelical student group that has been banned from advertising or meeting on the Brown University campus has enlisted the help of a national organization that defends the free-speech rights of students on college campuses.

The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announced last week that it is supporting the 100-member Reformed University Fellowship, which was notified in a Sept. 13 e-mail from the university’s chaplain, the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, that its status as a recognized student organization had been withdrawn.

Leaders of the group say they were given different reasons for the action. At first, they were told it was because their local sponsor, Trinity Presbyterian Church, had withdrawn its support, which it hadn’t. Then they were told that it was because the group’s former leader had been two months late in September 2005 when he submitted the group’s application to be recognized as a campus organization. But the third reason is one that group leaders say is most baffling: the Rev. Allen Callahan, Protestant chaplain, asserted they were “possessed of a leadership culture of contempt and dishonesty that has rendered all collegial relations with my office impossible.”

Student leaders said they still don’t know what he meant, and wrote a0 long letter to the chaplain’s office seeking elaboration. There’s been no response."

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Dan Weidner, Bret Ogburn, Ryan McReynolds, Alex McReynolds, Corri Ogburn, Rich Swanson, Helen Layman, Jessica Bott, Jim Layman, Leela Murty, and Paul Caruccio. 

In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year - washingtonpost.com: "Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her fellow English classmates at Falls Church High School say they're over MySpace.

'I think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now,' said Birnbaum, a junior who spends more time on her Facebook profile, where she messages and shares photos with other students in her network."