Christmas is coming ...

Hi everyone!

Welcome to December! Hope you are all well during this extremely cold time of year - how exciting that Christmas is only 25 days away now!

Just over two weeks ago we had another delicious CMF Meal, with a great talk from Willie Harrison on the topic of Shining like Stars, looking at the passage from Philippians 2:14-18.

¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky ¹⁶ as you hold firmly to the word of life.

It always important to remember that this means we must take every opportunity to share our faith with other on our course and within our work place. We are commanded to be stars and stars may look small from our perspective but they are not. They are huge suns millions of miles in diameter. He makes our lives something that is not to be hidden from others. We are to SHINE. 

If you really enjoyed this meal, we have another one coming up really soon! The annual CMF Christmas Meal is just around the corner, and whether you’ve been to none of the meals so far, or to every single of them you are most definitely welcome here. There are 25 of us going so far but would love to have a full house, bursting with fellowship and banter! So please RSVP here (http://www.facebook.com/events/281113215324406/) on the facebook event, or send us a quick email @ (cmfaberdeen@gmail.com) letting us know you can come along with any dietary requirements. Very excited for this!

Another really exciting event coming up next term is the CMF National Student Conference in February, the 8th-10th to be precise. It’s going to be awesome - here's the official promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOy0or4-wU Here's where you can  book: http://www.cmf.org.uk/students/national-student-conference/ and here's more information: http://admin.cmf.org.uk//pdf/events/2013_student_conf.pdf

Sophie Gerring is going, so if anybody else would like to come please book (you get an early bird discount before 21st December AND you get a £10 discount if you're a member of CMF and book online!) If you are interested in going contact us ASAP. It would be great to see more representation from Aberdeen so please do think about coming if you can. Also if you would like to come, can drive, and would be up for an 8 hour road trip feel free to volunteer! 

Also let’s try and represent Aberdeen even more by getting a few more members! It’s great to see so many people turning out for these meals but would be even better if you could all become “official members” (details here) - £6 for the first 18 months is a bargain at just over 33p a month, and think of the amazing meal you get for that! Worth it we’d say!

That’s all for now! See you on the 11^th of December!
Lots of love Beth & Sophie :)

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Hi there!

Bet you haven’t seen this blog in action for a while, or maybe you didn’t even know it existed, but as we take over CMF for this academic year (and maybe longer if we like you guys) we’d love to have it up and running again to let you know what’s going on!

For everyone who is new to CMF this year; Doctor or Student, WELCOME! The Christian Medical Fellowship is an organisation aimed at Christians that are involved in the medical profession whatever denomination of Christianity they may be from. CMF has over 4000 Doctors and 1000 medical students representing it from the 40 medical schools around the UK, and is still growing. Regular journals are sent out to all official members containing articles about ethical issues and each individual medical school has events unique to it to being the Doctors and Students together and help them learn what it means to practise Christian medicine.

In Aberdeen we meet every month to have a lovely meal at a local Doctors’ house which is followed by a short talk or discussion relating to the issues that surround being a Christian within the medical profession. There are also regular prayer meetings on the medical campus and this year we are looking to integrate ourselves more with Christian Union enabling more events at Foresterhill. You may have seen us at the Medics Freshers’ Fayre where we signed up over 15 first years to our mailing list which was great, but if you didn’t manage to catch us there just drop us an email and we can add you to the mailing list now. If you would like any more information about CMF or are interested in becoming a member, email cmfaberdeen@gmail.com or visit http://www.cmf.org.uk/students/join-cmf/ to sign up officially!

Our first event of the year was a great success a few weeks ago, as we shared a gorgeous meal and fellowship together and heard from … on the topic of … It was lovely to see so many new members there but would be even better if you could all become “official members” (details here) - £6 for the first 18 months is a bargain at just over 33p a month, and think of the amazing meal you get for that! Worth it we’d say!

Our next meal is in 2 days on Thursday the 8th of November; if you'd like to come please send us an email or click 'yes' on our facebook event. Don't forget to let us know about any dietary requirements. It would be lovely to see you there again.

This year we are hoping to integrate ourselves more within the CU at Aberdeen University. We will always be two different societies but we are really excited about working together to bring some events to Foresterhill. If you have any ideas or suggestions for things that could go on, we’d love to hear from you so you can drop us an email if you want!

That’s all for now, hope to see you again soon!

Lots of love, your CMF Student Reps (Sophie + Beth)