• Advent Conspiracy: What if Christmas became a world-changing event again? Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All
• Last Minute Toy Store: We are looking for friends to minister this Friday through the Last Minute Toy Store at 61st Avenue United Methodist Church. It’s a tradition we’ve had for a number of years. If you cannot give time, we are also collecting “teen” gifts, which are generally in short supply. More Details Here
• Leave a Message for West Africa this Christmas!
• Warmth in Winter 2010: This year is unlike any other. Get ready to Go the Distance with 2k+ fellow youth from all over middle TN and even Georgia. I need everyone who is planning on going to fill out a registration form ASAP. If you can’t get your money in by then, no worries, I just need to know you are going this early in the game. Sorry for the slam, but I’d like to make some of the early registration deadlines. visit website for more details
• Eikon: On Hiatus till Next Year, Jan 2010
• NWG Choir: Rehearsal this week at 4pm, Singing at 7pm Christmas Eve Service
• Drive Group: Training Tip for this edition
• Christmas Party Scavenger Hunt: our Annual Scavenger Hunt Christmas party is Dec. 20th. Usual start time applies, but plan to be later in the evening pick up. We are still in need of Drivers, Lots of Drivers to meet our Safe Sanct Requirements
  
• This month’s Youth Leader Spotlight
• What Is Your Spiritual Type?
• More Fun Links!
• Have you downloaded & filled out our yearly Health & Permission release form? Please do that.

Here is a little breakdown of upcoming NWG Choir dates. Also, there is a new NWG Choir facebook group. So if you are on facebook and some affiliation with the choir, join that.

from the desk of Alex Dunlap

• (Sun.)September 27 – no sing, rehearsal at 4:00
• (Mon.)September 28 – we sing TOMORROW night at spirit night, please be there by 6. we sing at 615
• (Sun.)October 4 – NEXT sunday, october 4, we DO sing at ALL THREE SERVICES, please be there.  we are CANCELLING REHEARSAL due to the pumpkin delivery. all hands on deck to help with unloading and setting up the pumpkin patch. we never have finished before 4, so that is why i am cancelling rehearsal that day.
• (Sun.)October 11 – fall break = no rehearsal, no singing. enjoy your break
• (Sun.)October 18 – we DO rehearse at 4
• (Sun.)October 25 – sing at 11:00 service, rehearsal at 4:00

If there are any questions, feel free to post ‘em!

I will say that there is also included within the calendar on this site.

So You Missed our Parents Meeting earlier this evening. Here’s a recap so that you can be informed.

Youth Meeting

• There were super cool forms to fill out, one being the yearly Health & Permissions form.
• I told you about my youth growing up, finding my own ’strangely warmed’ experience amidst a youth program, but never finding discipleship till God called on me to practice my faith.
• Our shift in programming from a traditional UMYF model to our current set up is a movement back to our Methodist roots of young adult small groups and empowering youth people to practice their faith and grow deeper in discipleship.
• We went over our weekly program set up.
• We went breezed through this cliff-notes version of our calendar for the next 12 months. If you have questions about a specific thing, just email me.
• Different with the calendar you might see, is 2 senior high missions experiences to Long Beach. One during spring break & the other during the choir tour. The plan is to have choir tour come through Long Beach to do their choir performance and the whole group will do a day of missions in the area. The size of the two missions teams will be smaller than our normal, only being 15-20 people for each. Other logistics are still working out on that one, but that’s the dream.
• We need folks to sign up to help with Warmth in Winter, Pumpkin Patch, the Missions Experiences, and Snack Supper especially. If you are willing to help with Snack Supper please email Donna Daly.
• We have added the NWG Choir to the google calendar on our calendar page. If you are having trouble seeing the details of an event, let me know. In updating the calendar viewing permission might not have been set correctly. I think I got it right, but I have been known to screw that up in the past. &:~D

If you have more questions feel free to email gavin(dot)richardson(at)hfumc.org for youth program related stuff or nwgpraises(at)gmail.com for all things NWG Choir.

cartoon via cartoonchurch.com lots of funny stuff there