About Us
Welcome to ABSK Grad! We're the graduate division of Asian Baptist Student Koinonia, a campus Christian fellowship based here at Columbia and at other universities nationwide. At ABSK, we want to follow Christ and spread his good news throughout the Columbia community. We also wish to know the love of Christ and experience true fellowship as we come to know one another and share our lives together. That's how the word koinonia got in our name; it means "deep fellowship" in Greek.
ABSK holds weekly Bible studies at the Morningside campus on Fridays at 7 pm (check news & events for room locations). Each week, we come together to hang out, munch on tasty food, and delve into the rich truths of the Bible. We welcome members of all the graduate and professional schools here at Columbia; amongst our ranks you will find students from GSAS, Teachers College, Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia Law, and more. You don't have to be Baptist or Asian (or even Christian!) to join us. And you certainly don't have to speak Greek!
In addition to our weekly Bible studies, we also have:
- Fall and Spring retreats
- Events with our fellow graduate ABSK at NYU
- Small groups and discipleship groups
The first ABSK was founded in 1981 at U.C. Berkeley. Since that time, ABSKs have been founded at over twenty campuses across the nation, all sharing a desire to come closer to God through one another.