Top o’ the mornin’ to you!
I hope you all had wonderful weekend in spite of our famous Texas heat! Certainly in the mid-Splash exhaustion your youth were somewhat sedated! If not, well, we’ll try to wear them out this week.
1) Incidentally, Summer Splash is going well! It seems like the two weeks will be enough to quench the appetite without wearing people out. A big, big, HUGE thanks to the Beecherls for lending us their house and pool as well as to our fabulous drivers who have been so good to show up and ferry everyone around, particularly Teresa Clarke, Ellen Welch, Elizabeth Tschiemer, Beth Bilbo, Liz Dunn, Anne Mackintosh and Louise Watkins. We truly couldn’t have done it without you!
2) Chi Rho this week will NOT be at Aziza and Alexia’s home as advertised in the bulletin. By popular demand, we’ll be going to the Studio Movie Grill located at Royal and Central Expressway to see Mamma Mia. The movie starts at 7:10, but let’s try to gather at 6:45 to get situated and visit a bit. The film should end at 9 pm. Tickets are $6.50 for children, and the menu can be found at http://www.studiomoviegrill.com/menu.html. Kids will be responsible for paying for their food.
3) EYC and Chi Rho will have our end of the summer shebang on Sunday at the home of Ellen, Bobby and Caroline Beecherl (and Susan, Ernest and Ernie too!) starting at 5:30 pm. We’ll hang out, grill, and generally have a good time!
Of course, this does tie up our summer! It’s time for a tiny break before school starts again! But lest you fear that I’ll be sitting here gathering moss, I’ll give you a run down of things you can expect to be happening:
1) Peter Overland, formerly of the outreach department, is in charge of sprucing up the youth room before Betsy and Bishop Burton arrive. He and I will be liaising and working out the details in coming weeks to be able to rock things out August 22 and 23. If you’d like to come help, please sign up at www.incarnation.org. We’d love to have you!
2) We’ll be having our own department kickoff on the evening of Sept 7. Yes, we will be at the church-wide rally day that morning, but you don’t want to miss the evening activities! Claire Upham, Melinda Draper and Ellen Welch are cooking up a festival to behold! We’ll have all manner of food, inflatable bungee runs, and, for the more organizationally minded among us, the upcoming year’s calendar and forms. I cannot tell you how excited we are!
3) We are revamping our Sunday school with the help of our consultants, and we’d love a few more teachers to come onboard so that we can spend some time in August engaging each other over the new curriculum.
4) Betsy will be arriving August 27! Hurrrrrraaaaah!!!!!
