Dear All You Beloved Folks!
We are truly kicking into gear with the year in swing, and the biggest thing coming our way and the focus of this Mondaymail:
RALLY DAY!!! Great info, fun, fellowship and seeing all the folks you’ve missed and meet the new ones, particularly our new and amazing Betsy and Bishop Burton and his family!
We will be rallying ‘round the rector in the morning, but especially for us youth-centered folk, the evening will be HUGE! Ellen Welch, Melinda Draper and Claire Upham have gone truly above and beyond the call of duty to get an awesome, AWESOME evening underway. We’re still waiting for RSVPs from a lot of you guys, and we really do need to know what sort of attendance we’ll have. There will be great food, inflatable games, a dunking booth (might we dunk Bishop Burton??? I hear a call for that one!). The crazy times start at 5 pm and go until 7:30. The event is for parents and youth alike, so come one and all!
Get this:
We’ll even be raffling off some tickets to such fabulous events as the Great Pumpkin Chase, Ski Trip and Mission trips!
But you have to be there to win!
So please email myself or Ellen to RSVP.
The Sunday following, September 14, is when EYC and Chi Rho as well as Sunday school start up again on the usual schedule.
On September 20, we’ll have a really great opportunity for the Chi Rho youth to go on an outdoors adventure at All Saints Camp. We’ll be rappelling down walls and doing some orienteering and general nature fabulousness with the well-trained guides at our diocesan camp. Tom and Gail Smith will be helping organize the parental troops, and the sooner you RSVP to me, the sooner I’ll have seatbelts for all involved!
Also, this year we snagged an AWESOME deal on ski trip, including FLIGHTS instead of a BUS! But that does mean we need to bump up the sign up to soon. We leave the day AFTER Christmas this year and return on the 29th, which hopefully gives you plenty of time for family festivities! The cost is $800 per person. Friends are, as always, welcome! Let me know that you’re coming—I intend to learn how to ski this year and will need someone to sit with me when I break my arm again! Just kidding… I hope!
Okay fabulous people, I have to run away and do other work now, but know that you are loved and prayed over!
In His Grip,
Beverly Fonville Steele
