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Winter Break Events
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Christmas Eve Worship - December 24th at 11:00 pm
January 1: The Jan Jam
You're invited to participate in this HUGE Youth Ministries event! For students from 6th grade and on up through college, we're renting a bus (or two, if needed) and spending all night traveling from one fun event to another! These events include Rockin' Jump (formerly Xtreme Trampoline), Laser Quest, Game Works, Spunky Dunkers, and a movie viewing. Mark down January 1 right now so you'll be ready for THE JAN JAM and tell TC ( [email protected]) if you plan to attend!
January 4: Broomball
We're getting together after the holidays. We've booked broomball at Glenview from 2:30-3:30 and will have pizza at the Williamses' after that. We've also incited your Youth Ministries leaders of yore to drop by for pizza after broomball or even to play on the ice if they feel so inclined. Let us know if you want to attend. Our hosts need to hear from you, at [email protected]
PADs Help Needed - Tuesday Evenings December 22 and 29
The First Pres PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) ministry needs help for the first shift (6:00-11:00 pm) on December 22 (4 people) and December 29 (1 person), and for the third shift (3:00 am - 7:00 am) for both dates (1 person). Think about doing this with a buddy or family member. Your help is really needed and calued in this important ministry. Contact Helen Ross
([email protected]).
2016 College Conference at Montreat
January 2 - January 5, 2016
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A Big Tip:
Make and Follow Your Road Map
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During the first hour of each course you take, you'll get a handout that explains the professors' classroom expectations, grading policies and semester plan. It's called a syllabus, and it usually lists the dates of any major projects, research papers or exams.
Save it. Read it. Use it. This is important because, as Garry Morgan, associate professor at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota, says, "Few professors are willing to let you turn in an assignment late because you say, 'I didn't look at the syllabus.'"
Your syllabi (that's the plural) will form a "roadmap" to guide you through the semester. What you'll need to do is take out a calendar and write down all those important and even those seemingly unimportant dates from each syllabus.
As you check out your calendar, you'll be able to predict where your "crunch times" will happen. Those are the times when you'll be bogged down with deadlines and test dates. But you'll be ready because you'll have worked ahead on required reading or research papers-anything you can do to lighten the load for when it really matters.
Doing this will allow you to use your time effectively AND be able to carve out time for yourself to replenish yourself and your soul, pastors call this time "self care".
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Hello, Parents!
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CollegeCARE Ministries hosted a gathering for parents of college-age young adults in October. Parents met, shared news, provided feedback on our programs, and prayed together.
Are your students starting college, living off campus, hitting a rough patch, studying abroad, looking for internships or looking into life's big questions? Our parent community helps strengthen the network for our college families. We hope you'll be in touch.
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WANTED: Addresses for Care Packages
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Please send us student addresses so we can send out care packages. You want one, don't you? EVERY YEAR, we need to receive the mailing address to which we can send a package, and we sure could use the best email address for contacting each student. That way, we'll give a head's up when it mails. Email your addresses to [email protected].
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Student Snapshots
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Have you've seen the photos of our college students on display at church and gotten to read what the students are up to? The bulletin board makes us smile and reminds everyone to pray for our college students. Check out the display case by the stairs to the library.
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Everybody Needs Prayer
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
and Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
The Prayer of Saint Francis
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