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ALWAYS FREE ISSUE NO. 1
GATOR GAZETTE
FALL 2009
Swamp Romp
Fall Kick-Off
This Sunday
5:30-8:00
DJ Youth Mission Dinner
Games Sunday Dinner
Food September 27
Jason in a Dunk Fair Trade Sale
Tank 6:00 PM
Bring $5
$6/person or Testimonies
Bring a Side Dish $20/family
Bring a Friend
Bring a Stranger
This is the first fundraiser for the youth’s 2010
mission trips and their 2nd Youth Session of
the year. Come out and support them!
Take Away
from SUNDAY SCHOOL
Gautemala
How many other
by Rachel Lau chances will you
Senior
••• get to have a
It was very beautiful Sunday School
there in the Teacher like this?
countryside. The
people were humble
and lived in a
spiritually rich
culture, though they
were poor
materially. But they
still thanked us by
giving us small gifts.
The two families I
helped build stoves
for gave me a
colorful friendship Sunday School Begins - September 13 @ 9:45
bracelet and a stem
of beautiful flowers. New Rooms
Seeing them live the Jr High - Room 203
way they do has Sr High - Room 202
definitely affected
my faith, and I
believe now that I’m closer
to God because I went. I
would gladly go again.
SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS
“This summer I went to “My summer highlight was
"My summer highlight was in Guatemala with the youth, it was working at a goat farm in the
Guatemala when Jason got me not the most fun and rewarding Andes. The smell was bad, but the
one but two Guatemalan wives." experience I have ever had (even tips were good.”
though LP was a little clingy)!”
- Chris Tadie - Elizabeth Gungoll
- Charlotte Cummins
FROM JASON Youth Music this Fall
While Staff Parish and our
Search Team look for a
new youth director, I want
to reassure you all that the
youth program will kick-
off and continue strongly
this fall.
Cheryl Bratten and I are
coordinating to make sure
your youth have a
ministry to them and place
for them as the school year
begins. During this
transition time, please
patient, please pray for us
and please give us your
support.
CHANGES IN 2009
Blessings! GATOR
As many you already know, there will be changes YOUTH
this fall to the youth music program.
FACEBOOK
Psalm 150, the youth band, will be on Cheryl Bratten is
Sunday hiatus for 2009. It’s hoped that this year
will give room for new ideas and direction
updating the youth
Facebook page. If
Schedule to emerge.
you’re on Facebook,
In Case You’re New While Psalm 150 is on hiatus, youth who’d friend us so that we
or forgot
like participate in a music program have a can stay in touch
Youth Sunday Scho few options: and communicate
ol
9:45
with you more
Youth Handbells
Ladies who’d like sing can join the female
5 choir, Grace Notes, which is directed by
easily.
Youth Group
6-7:30 Psalm 150 director, Karli Eddinger.
Search:
Guys who’d like to sing or continue to play ‘Aldersgate Umc’
can contact Andreas Barrett about sitting
in with the Journey’s or Saturday band.
For Parents- save the dates
New Year, New I.D.
Do you ever miss the opportunity become something they’re not- 9.20
Parent’s Meeting
youth get to start brand new Paul’s message can be, literally,
9.20
1st Youth Group
every year with a new school liberating. Some youth want
year? That kind of fresh start nothing more badly than to take 9.27
Mission Dinner
doesn’t come along as frequently on a new identity while others are 10.4
Youth Group
once you leave school behind. hungry for an identity other than
the ones imposed on them by peer
10.11
No Youth Group
I hope you can begin the year
encouraging conversations with pressure. I hope you can start this 10.18
Youth Group
year by catching your students up
your youth, helping them to take 10.25
Youth Group
advantage of this fresh start by in the vision that it is not about
pointing out a big biblical idea: becoming better versions of 10.23 Jr. High Lock In
that we are all called to ourselves, but about become like
10.31
Jr. High Paintball Day
participate in taking on a brand Christ.
11.7
Sr. High Paintball Day
new identity. Spiritually speaking, Book Suggestion
how can we help them to care When Kids Commit
12.13 Christmas Party
more about being Jesus with their
Parents, check out a new book
peers than any other label they
from respected youth and religion Reminders
might desire (or be stuck with)?
researcher Christian Smith called Mission Trips- dates co
In Colossians 3, Paul describes ming
Souls in Transition: The soon, check web to re
gister
very specifically how Christians
Religious and Spiritual Lives of
can—and must—trade in our old Online Registration-
Emerging Adults. safety/
identity for a brand new one that release forms, emerge
ncy
is “in Christ.” At a time in their contact forms online
lives when school asks youth to
become better versions of White House Ornam
ents-
themselves and culture asks them youth fundraising be
gins this
fall, sign up to volun
teer
CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION
Jason Micheli Cheryl Bratten QUESTIONS/PRAISE:
J.MICHELI@ALDERSGATE.NET cheryl_kd@hotmail.com CONTACT JASON
CELL- 703.350.1967 703.619.0247 COMPLAINTS:
Office- 703.765.6555 ext. 601 CONTACT DENNIS
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