Fall Retreat Details

It’s time! Fall Retreat is THIS WEEKEND! Here is a quick look at the details you need to know:

Location: Skyview Ranch, Millersburg

Emergency Contact: Amy 330-904-1573 (cell)

Departure: FRIDAY 6PM **Meet in the Youth Room**

Return: SUNDAY 12PM **Please pick up your son/daughter at the main church building along 2nd street**

Packing:
Sleeping Bag/Bedding Materials
Appropriate outerwear for the weather
Old clothes (for outdoor activities)
Sneakers/Hiking Boots
Towel
Shower accessories/toiletries
Flip-flops (for showering)
Bible/Notebook
**Cell phones or ipods are permitted but at your own risk. The camp and the church are not liable if you lose them. Also, they are not to be taken into worship…just like at Workcamp, you can use them in your room**

Miscellaneous: Paintball ($15) and Horseback riding ($8) are available on Saturday afternoon, weather permitting. Please send your student with the appropriate clothes and payment for this activity. This is run by the camp, not our ministry. **For Paintball…you may bring your own gun. However, if the temperature drops too low, they will not allow us to play.**

Junior Highers to take over Dollar Tree!

This fall's Junior High Service Project is THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15! We will be making Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes for children in third world countries. (Confirmation Class did this last year.) Each student needs to bring $5 to Youth Group Sunday (normal times), and we will carpool to the Dollar Tree to pick out small gifts for a girl or boy to be placed in a shoebox to be shipped overseas. You can read more about this awesome ministry on their website!

Drinking my weight in orange juice as we speak...

H1N1 paranoia...tensions rise.

Everyone Can Give a Corner

Last night we talked about service. Junior High looked at the passage from Matthew 25 where we get that famous line "Whatever you do for the least of these...you do for me." Each of us came up with three ways to serve this week--ask your middle schooler how they are serving!

Our high schoolers watched a dvd by pastor Rob Bell from the Nooma series. Check it out here. Bell challenged us that we each have a "corner" to share with someone else. We always have some way to share with or serve others.

With your November calendar, you should have gotten a list of upcoming service opportunities! We have one THIS WEEK! :) Meet at the church WEDNESDAY at 3:30 with a rake (or leaf blower!) and we will head to a church member's house to rake leaves. If you are unable to meet at the church, we will be in the 600 block of N. Broadway (by the park).