Hello one and all!
I’m always so blessed to be pulled into the life of our church and lives of our youth. Thank you all also for being mindful of those parts of my life apart from the church. Thanks to all of you who expressed concern for my hometown, Shoreacres, recently smacked around by Ike. I still don’t know the extent of the hurricane damage to my home, but I will include a snippet in the mondaymail when I find out!
We had a great start to the year yesterday with a great bunch of youth in Sunday school and evening programs! As the Sunday school curriculum on the schedule for the first block is entitled Life Roller Coaster, we spent Sunday school exploring what the metaphor of a roller coaster does when applied to our lives in faith and without faith. The base scripture for the evening groups was the parable of the lost sheep, and we worked out the efforts and joys of finding things and people we’d loved, lost and found.
This weekend promises to be very very busy! We have JOLT on Saturday with the junior high group.. The fun, fabulous stuff we’ll be doing is Scavenger hunt, Rappelling, Orienteering and Waders in the Wetlands. It should be great both for the sake of the beautiful camp and fun activities but also to give the Chi Rho youth a chance to bond and grow together. The cost is $20. We’ll meet at 8 am at the church and be back at 7:30 pm. For more info, go here. Please RSVP to me here ASAP if your youth would like to come!
The very next day, September 21, we will be going to Cathedral Gardens for a round two of our very popular Bingo Night!!! Thanks so much to Ellen McDowell for organizing the organizers, Tracy, Logan and Preston Klein, and thank you to our organizers as well!! We will depart COTI at 4:45, play some serious Bingo with some good youth-y prizes as well and dine at Cathedral Gardens and then be picked up at Cathedral Gardens. Senior highers over the age of 16 are encouraged to drive themselves to the Cathedral and meet us there at 5 pm. RSVP to Tracy Klein here if you can go!
Our Ski Trip this year is going to be AWESOMEEEEE!!!! But there is limited space and soon deadlines, so let me know ASAP if you or your youth want to come. We have about 14 more spaces at present. We’ll be flying American Airlines departing DFW on Dec 26 at 7:20 am and returning to DFW at 9:55 pm on Dec 29. We’ll be at Beaver Creek staying at Beaver Village in condominiums. The cost will be $800 per person. RSVP to me here.
And those glasses are still in my office from the kickoff, so if you’ve been bumping into things in your blindness, gimme a call!
Much love to all of you!
In His Grip,
Beverly Fonville Steele
