English Patient: Amazing Food Places

Sister Y: Hey, in Pleasanton, there are these amazing restaurants in the palace.

Friend: There's a palace in Pleasanton?  Wait, do you mean plaza?

Tobasco

Setting: A father and son walking down the aisle of Safeway...

Son: Hey Daddy!  Remember how you said we ran out of tobacco?  Don't forget!  We need more tobacco!

English Patient: Blew a Gasket

Sister E: Oh no, did he blow a casket?

Friend: No, that would be cruel.

Trash-talking on the Whiteboard

This is a whiteboard that some elementary boys at Gracepoint Berkeley were using to trash-talk to each other.  Grammatical and spelling errors are just not the kinds of things that boys ridicule each other about.

Yoda's Rice Pot

Does Yoda come to Gracepoint?

English Patient: Sky Mountain Camp

Setting: A group of sisters are looking at pictures of the Sky Mountain Camp.

Friend: Look, here's the meadow that Pastor Ed was talking about.

Sister J: Where?  I don't see it.

Friend: (points to the obvious meadow in the picture) Here, the meadow.

Sister J: I really don't see it.  I thought it was big and beautiful and shiny.

Friend: What?

Sister J: The big metal.

English Patient: Wrong Wrong

Setting: A group of sisters are laughing at a comical sign below...

Friends: [laughing]

Sister X: Huh?  I don't get it.

Friends: You don't get it??  This means in a marriage, when there's an argument... the wife is always right and the other... 

Sister X: I don't get it.

Friends: What's the opposite of "right"?

Sister X: Left.

Friends: [silence]

Confusing Label

I have no idea how to make sense of this label.  This container contained soy sauce, but that seems to be beside the point.  What could possibly be inside the container which would make sense of this label?

English Patient: Hand Sanitizer

Brother T: Hey, can you pass me the hand sanctifier?

Number R

Setting: Sister J and friends are helping a toddler make cards for people.

Toddler: Can you draw the number R?
Sister J: Sure, but R is not a number..  It's an alphabet.
Friend: R is a letter.

English Patient: Hairy Words

Sister L: I have so many things to do...  I feel so hairy!

English Patient: Steph Curry and the Other Guy

English Patient: You know, it takes discipline to grow spiritually. Steph Curry didn't get so good overnight. And the other big guy on the other team, Bon Jovi, also practiced for many years. Lifegroup Members: Umm.. do you mean LeBron James?

Mad Taboo Skillz

Setting: A group of friends are playing Taboo, and the word was "Rodeo"

Brother J: Oh, that place where men sit on this animal, and the animal runs around everywhere, and the person tries not to fall off.

Brother W: What animal?

Brother J: The ones that are like cows.  They are strong.  The rider has to hold on very tight while the animal runs around everywhere!  The animal is trying to make the rider fall!

Brother W: I have no idea.

Brother J: [thinks for a moment]  The burger that all guys eat at Burger King.

Brother W: Rodeo.

Gracepoint Kids: Ethnicity

Setting: Two Gracepoint kids are having a conversation...

Kid 1: Hey, are you Korean or Spanish?

Kid 2: I'm English.

(Note: Kid 2 is not from England.)

Kettle Corn

Setting: A bunch of sisters are hanging around at the Longhorn Lodge in Gracepoint Austin Church...

Sister H: Hey, can you pass me that cattle corn?

U.S. Geography

During a conversation about US geography, one sister proudly exclaims, "Oh yeah!  I know all 54 states now!"

Disgracepoint Classic: Grumpy Old Men Interview Kids for Thanksgiving

Here's an old video that shows some of our kids answering impromptu questions about Thanksgiving!  Thought that this would be a good classic to show in November, the month where all of our Gracepoint churches start to preach about having gratitude toward God.

Persuasive Flyer

Setting: This was the flyer that was passed out.
NOTE: read carefully.

Disgracepoint Classic: Greatest Basketball Flop Ever

About 2010, there was a Gracepoint Church brothers' fellowship time at Sierra Lodge, during which there was the greatest flop ever performed in the history of basketball.  It really did trick everyone.  You can see John Ko trying in vain to explain what happened... but no one was listening at that time.

Disgracepoint Classic: Basketball Fellowship

This is a clip of the basketball game that the older sisters of Gracepoint played at Sierra Lodge in 2008.

Obviously, Jeannie Lee was the MVP. Awesome point guard - reminds us of what Jason Kidd did for the Cal team.

But who might qualify for the LVP is a debatable question.


Some have commented that Susanna Lee of Gracepoint Austin would make a very good volleyball setter.

Disgracepoint Classic: Chinese Food

Here's a picture of a menu from a very good Chinese restaurant near Berkeley. 
This was their menu many years ago, so not sure if they fixed it.
Steamed Lamb Dumping sounds quite exotic.  I'm sure it's steaming.

A Recent Classic: Birthday Surprise

This is not really a CLASSIC, because it's so recent.  However, this post has gotten so many views and reactions that I thought I needed to just post it here.
Brother Bryan Kai is part of the Koinonia group in Berkeley, and I must give it to him -- his calmness through this whole bewildering situation is amazing.  It is a spiritual gift.

http://www.disgracepointonline.org/2015/05/birthday-surprise-when-you-least-expect.html

NOTE: I highly recommend that you view the video using HD.

Disgracepoint Classic: Videotaping Can Be Dangerous

Setting: During one of the filming sessions @ Gracepoint Berkeley Church...

Disgracepoint Classic: Pastor Ed Kang Highlights - Basketball or Football?

This is another classic video -- Pastor Ed's sports highlights...  It's kind of sad to say, but Pastor Ed Kang (Gracepoint Berkeley) USED to move like this, but now he has slowed down a lot (yes, it is possible to slow down more than what you see in this video).



Disclaimer: This video is sponsored by Manny Kim.

Pastor Ed Kang also got his own share of being fouled, but those shots do not make for a very fun video.

Disgracepoint Classic: Caption Contest Winners

We used to have contests of people submitting their own caption for a picture.  When I posted this old picture of Pastor William Kang of Gracepoint Davis Church, I got many submissions.  But these 3 won the popularity contest in 2008.  (Disclaimer: the picture below comes from way before 2008).

Disgracepoint Classic: Pull My Finger

Setting: Brother T (who was at Gracepoint Berkeley Church when this happened, but he's now at Gracepoint San Diego) was playing sports and dislocated his index finger. He was rushed to the hospital where a triage nurse saw him.
  
Nurse: Okay, your finger is dislocated.. so I'm going to try to pull your finger back into place.

Brother T: Okay.. [sticks out his finger toward her]

[Nurse pulls, and brother T, blinded by the flash of pain that hit him, loses control and...]

Brrrrttttt!

Nurse: (immediately stops pulling the finger... pauses) Okay.. Let's try that again.

The above story demonstrates that sometimes "pull my finger" is no joke.

Disgracepoint Classic: Pizza, Italy, Cheese Are All Related

Setting: Long ago, a brother at Gracepoint Austin Church was looking at a slanted shoe rack..

Brother W: Hey that looks like the cheese tower of leaning (pointing at a slanted shoe rack)

Friend: ... Did you mean the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Brother W: Oh, yeah... You know it's the same thing because pizza has cheese.

NOTE: I am not exactly sure why this particular post is so popular -- I'm really just going by the number of views that it has gotten.  It might just be the picture that is popular.

Disgracepoint Classic: A Disturbing Sign

Here's a sign that was put up near the entrance of our Gracepoint Davis Church's 607 building, so that as someone is coming into the building, they were greeted by this sign.  I'm sure that Pastor William Kang was disturbed by this, although the sign very clearly tells him not to be.

The Disgracepoint Classics

Hello everyone,

Ever since 7 years ago when Disgracepoint was created during a Sierra Lodge trip with the Gracepoint leaders, it has thankfully brought many laughter and joy.  Recently, the posts have slowed down for some mysterious reason, and it's because I have simply not been getting people's submissions of funny things that their friends have done.

One theory is that it's because our church people are getting more intelligent and therefore make fewer mistakes, so there are just fewer ridiculous stories to share.  I am not sure about that theory.

Whatever the reason, in the upcoming weeks, we are going to feature some of the old but awesome posts from the past, and even some that were never posted!

Stay tuned.

English Patient: Lance Armstrong's Detour

Brother P: Hey guys, you know Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist who won the Detour France 7 times?