some of the photo sights from our Fall Festival & Trunk or Treat on Sunday

note: I upload our photos to Flickr, it is the easiest way for me to share them with the people who want to see them & also ensure a level of protection. Our Flickr account is set to only allow those who our user/account (that being hfumcyouth) is a ‘contact/friend/family’ of. If you are just visiting and would like a picture you can ask me about it, but the easiest way for longevity sake, if you can create a profile (that is free & probably already have one if you have done anything with Yahoo) you can request a ‘contact/friend/family’ connection with our account and then you are able to download all the pictures you care. You are also able to choose to print direct from Flickr the photos you want.

Photos are a powerful narrative of what we are doing in ministry & I know family members like to look at and share them. This allows you to email links or such of photos to your own friends and family, but to download and take into possession an image is protected.

Yes folks! Its October and we are open for business at the Pumpkin Patch. Props to all those that showed up to help unload. Thanks to the Hatfields for providing some extra muscle with members of the Hendersonville Commando football team. Another big shout out to Devon & Christopher for being the first to show and pretty much the last to leave. Y’all were great.

We need folks to help man the Pumpkin Patch now, so drop and email or a phone call to me to sign yourself up for some spots, or just visit the patch. If I am not actively calling then the volunteer notebook will be at the Patch main table.

It was a bit crazy getting out of the church parking lot, but the Camping Retreat was a whole lot of fun. Just check out some of the photos from the weekend.

Are you planning on going on the Fall Camping Retreat? Well, I had set it into the early part of the fall so that we could have it before Brooks showed up.. Oh well for that plan. We are still determining if our leadership is comfortable in making the trip happen. In the mean time, here are two pieces of paperwork that will be crucial for the trip to happen.

1. Whitewater Rafting Release Form : this is for the river guide company. I believe the file says its 2008, but it is what they sent to me & their is no end date on it that I could read.

2. HFUMC Youth 2009-2010 Health & Release Form : this is for everyone in the youth community. It is our release form for the whole year when we do events. It has three parts, emergency information, health insurance info, and a photo/video release. The first two are pretty explanatory, we also ask for a copy of a current health insurance card (hospitals, should we need it ever, like to see cards). The photo/video release is to affirm permissions to use photos/videos taken at HFUMC happenings for website, newsletters, trip updates, etc. If you have specific questions about use feel free to contact me.

We will need both forms for those camping this weekend.