FiCB - Newcomers

Welcome freshmen, junior transfers, and others! We are excited that you are interested in our fellowship.

We thank you for taking an interest in our ministry. We will be happy to answer any questions you have for us, just contact us! In addition, we've created this page as a resource if you want to learn more about the background of FiCB and KCPC.

On this page, you will find information on:

Fellowship in Christ, Berkeley (FiCB)

Our Vision
Our Mission

Korean Central Presbyterian Church (KCPC)

      History
      Sunday Worship
      Pastors
      Our Beliefs

Small Group

E-mail Lists

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Fellowship in Christ at Berkeley (FiCB) is the campus ministry of Korean Central Presbyterian Church (KCPC) in San Francisco. We meet on campus every Friday night at 7pm during the school year for a time of praise, fellowship, and Bible study. One of the strengths of our ministry is that we have designed FiCB to bring together the best of what the church and what campus ministries offer to college students. At FiCB, we have the strengths of a campus ministry with large group meetings on campus and small group meetings off campus. These serve to build a Christian community in an environment that is often hostile to Christian faith and Christian living. At the same time, we have the stability, accountability, and resources that come from being part of a local church.

The vision of our ministry is two-fold: to build up and to reach out.

The first stage of our vision is to build up Christians with the message of the gospel, which tells us that in Christ we are totally forgiven, fully accepted, and radically loved by God. As Christians, we are freed from both the punishment and power of sin and are progressively being transformed into the image of Christ. As Paul puts it, we are a new creation.

The second stage is to reach out to the world with the message of the gospel. Once we are transformed by the gospel, we are to become agents of transformation in the world through both our words and our actions. In our words, we share the message of salvation in Christ with the world. And in our actions, we embody the love of God through our service to the world.

So this is our vision: to be transformed by God and then to transform the world for God. This is simply the dynamic of the gospel: God works in us and then through us. And this is what we're committed to at FiCB.

The ultimate purpose of our ministry is to glorify God by being a people who are transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ and who then serve as agents of transformation for God in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the world. We hope to accomplish this purpose by committing ourselves to these five priorities:

Internal Priorities

• Worship - John 4:23-24, Rev. 4:8-11, 5:8-14
• Teaching - Acts 2:41-42, Eph. 4:11-16
• Fellowship - Acts 2:41-42, Heb. 10:23-25

External Priorities

• Evangelism / Missions - Matt. 28:16-20, 1 Pet. 3:15
• Mercy Ministries / Social Justice - Luke 10:30-37, 1 John 3:17

KCPC is made up of two congregations: the Korean-speaking Ministry and the English-speaking Ministry (EM). All together, there are about 600 people who worship at KCPC every Sunday. The EM is presently made up of three departments: the Married Couples Group (MCG), the Young Adult Group (YAG), and the College Group with students from UC Berkeley, Stanford University and other colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.

KCPC is a member of the Korean-American Presbyterian Church (KAPC), and as such, we adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms as our doctrinal standards.

KCPC began as a church for Korean immigrants who wanted to continue in the faith they had brought with them from Korea. With only 14 people, KCPC held its first worship service on February 7, 1971 in San Francisco.

In 1981, the KCPC College Group was established by ten UC Berkeley students. As a growing number of college students graduated and stayed in the Bay Area, there was a growing need for a ministry for working adults. So in October of 1992, KCPC's English Ministry was formed and held its first worship service.

Worship is one of the church's highest priorities. Although our entire lives are to be an expression of worship to God, we believe that weekly corporate worship is an indispensable part of the Christian life.

What is distinctive about our worship is that we use the structure of a more traditional worship service but with the style of a more contemporary worship service. In this way, we are trying to create a worship experience that is relevant, meaningful, and understandable while holding on to the traditions and doctrines that have united the true church for the last 2000 years.

Reverend Ryan Kim
English Ministry Pastor

Ryan Kim is the English Ministry (EM) Pastor at KCPC. He oversees the English-speaking congregation as a whole and works directly with the married couples and working adults. Ryan has been married to his wife, Libby, for 14 years, and has two daughters, Victoria and Alexandria. He graduated from Penn State University in 1987 and worked for seven years before being called into the pastoral ministry. He attended Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and graduated in 1998. After graduating from seminary, Ryan brought his family from Philadelphia to San Francisco where he has been serving at KCPC for the last three years.

Reverend Eugene Noh
College Pastor

Eugene Noh is the College Pastor at KCPC and works with both the UC Berkeley and Stanford branches of the KCPC college ministry. He was born in Hawaii and lived there for nine years before moving with his family to San Jose in 1981. After growing up in San Jose, Eugene attended UC Berkeley and was a member of KCPC during his college years. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1995 and from Westminster Theological Seminary in California in 1999. During his four years in seminary, Eugene served part-time as the pastor of FiCB, spending his weekends doing ministry in Berkeley and his weekdays studying in San Diego. Since graduating from seminary, Eugene has been serving full-time as the College Pastor at KCPC and this year will mark his seventh year of ministry on the UC Berkeley campus.

1. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, the only inerrant, perfect rule of faith and deed.

2. There is only one God, and man shall worship Him alone. God is the spirit, self-existent, and omnipresent, distinguishing Himself from all other gods and the created beings. God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness justice, goodness and love.

3. There is three Persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; He is the Triune God, one in Trinity, equal in power and glory.

4. God created all things visible and invisible by the power of His Word, and preserve and governs them, but God in His nature causes no sin. He acts all things by His plan according to His own will and governs all things to fulfill His purpose that is good, wise and holy.

5. God created man, after His own image in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness with dominion over every living thing. All men of the world are of sole source. That is same native and brother.

6. Our first parents, being left to the freedom to choose between good and evil through the temptation, transgressed the commandment of God. Adam is our federal head, chosen by God to represent all of humanity. As a result, all mankind, descending from Adam by ordinary generation sinned in him and fell with him in his transgression. We sin because we are sinners, living according to the patterns of this world. We commit sins of omission and commission. Therefore, we are justly liable to God's just displeasure and punishment in this world and that which is to come.

7. God sent His eternal, uniquely begotten Son, Jesus Christ to the world to save man from sin, the corruption and the punishment thereof and to give eternal life in His infinite love. In Jesus Christ God became flesh and through Him alone can man be saved. The eternal Son became true man and possessed two distinct persons in His nature. He is eternally as true God and true man, in two distinct natures and one person forever. He, being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance and satisfied divine justice. For the purpose of reconciliation between God and man. He was crucified on the cross, died and buried. On the third day, He arose again from the dead. He is sitting on the right hand of God making intercession for His people. From there He shall come for the resurrection of the dead, and to judge the world.

8. The Holy Spirit being out of God the Father and God the Son, works salvation in man, convicts man of his sin and misery. He enlightens man's heart to know Christ and renews man's will, exhorting and empowering him to accept Jesus Christ who offers man the Gospel in grace freely. He also works in us to bear the fruit of God's righteousness.

9. Before God created the world, He elected in His love His own people to make them holy and blameless, predestined and adopted His children through Jesus Christ according to His pleasure and will, to the praise of the glory of His grace bestowed freely in one He loves. However, the perfect salvation offered freely so ordered to all mankind that they may repent their sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, rest upon Him and follow Him, obey the revealed will of God, be humble and conduct themselves in holiness, to the extent that whoever believe in Christ and is obedient unto Him shall be saved. The particular benefits that are accompanied with justification, adoption as God's children, sanctification and glorification are for the believers who are assured with God's salvation and joy in this world. The means of the grace are the Bible, sacraments and prayer in particular.

10. The sacraments instituted by Christ are baptism and holy communion; baptism of washing with water is to be administered in the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is the sign and seal of joining in union with Christ, and the promise for our regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit and God's possession of us. Baptism shall be administered to those who make confession of faith in Christ, and to their children. Holy Communion as partaking of the bread and the cup shall be served in remembrance of Christ's death, and in the witness of the seal for the benefit derived from Christ's death with which the believers are in union. Holy Communion shall be observed by God's people until the Day of the Lord's coming, and is a sign of a promise of more faithful service unto the Lord and a sign of communion with the Lord and His people, who believe in Him, and rest upon His atonement from which God's benefit flows to us. The benefits of the sacraments are not found in the sacraments themselves or any virtue of him by whom the sacraments are being administered, but only in the blessing by Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit in those whom by faith receive the sacraments.

11. All believers shall dutifully join in church membership with instruction, have fellowship with one another among the believers, observe the sacraments and other ordinances, obey all the laws of the Lord, pray always, observe the Lord's Day holy, assemble with believers to worship the Lord and listen attentively to the preaching of the Word of God, render offerings as God provides us abundantly, share with one another the mind of Christ, share also the same mind with all other people, endeavor to promote the expansion of the Kingdom of Christ upon the whole world, and wait expectantly for the appearance of the Lord in His glory.

12. The dead shall receive the reward according to the good and evils done in this world before the judgment seat of Christ when they will be resurrected in the last day. Those who believe in Christ, and are obedient unto Him shall be truly forgiven and accepted by Him in glory.

All of our college students have the opportunity to join a small group. Small groups meet once a week, usually on a weekday evening, for Bible study, fellowship and prayer. Each small group is composed of college students of different ages and is led by a college senior or junior who has been selected and trained by the pastoral staff.

The small group ministry serves a special purpose at KCPC. In a church as large as ours, we strongly believe in making our ministry more personal and more accessible. And one of the best ways of doing this is through small groups. We also believe that one of the most effective means of spiritual growth is through close, personal relationships with other Christians.

Joining a small group is a great way to meet people in the ministry and study the Word. Sign-up for a small group or contact us for more information.

There are two ministry-wide mailing lists and one for each class:

SOLIDEOGLORIA
Description: The mailing list for official FiCB announcements.

This list is limited to administrative announcements that apply to the ministry as a whole, and you should let Pastor Eugene or the officers know if you want to send an e-mail to the list. We don't mean to be e-mail Nazis or anything, it's just that we want to make sure that no spam is sent over this list.

FICB-CHAT
Description: This list is used for all other purposes.

You won't miss out on any major announcements if you're not on this list, but this list does allow people to post other e-mails to the entire ministry. Some examples of what members e-mail about are needs, giveaways, furniture, events, job postings, rides to/from Berkeley, etc.

CLASS LISTS
There is a list for each class:

FiCB_2008 - Seniors
FiCB_2009 - Juniors
FiCB_2010 - Sophomores
FiCB_2011 - Freshmen

Furniture e-mails, job postings, etc. should not be sent to the class mailing lists because we would not want anyone to unsubscribe to a class list because there are too many e-mails sent to it.

SUBSCRIPTIONS
To subscribe or unsubscribe to a list, you can contact Stella Yujin Kim or send an e-mail to majordomo@listlink.berkeley.edu from the e-mail address from which you want to receive or stop receiving e-mails.

Type "subscribe listname" in the body, not the subject of the e-mail. To unsubscribe, type "unsubscribe listname". For example, to be added to solideogloria, type in the body of the e-mail: subscribe solideogloria.