This Sunday we have a 2-part Sunday School! All our Reveille youth and adult classes are meeting together at 10 am for a 4-week series of videos on Love, Joy, Peace and Hope. This week we're looking at Love - come and join us to see how pizza (sort of) helps explain what love means.

After we've watched the video together each class will meet separately as a Youth Sunday School class, so this week you'll need 2 Zoom links, both listed below.

Zoom Link - Combined class (use this one first!) | Password: 124135

Zoom Link - Youth Class | Password: RUMCYouth

Youth Group is not meeting at the moment, see below for plans for January in our recently tightened Covid restricted world.

With the recent announcement that non-worship gatherings are limited to 10 people indoors or out, we are looking at reshaping in-person youth gatherings for January as a bridge to resuming larger gatherings as and when this limit is lifted. To start the month we will still gather for an online games evening on January 3rd at 5 pm, which will also be an opportunity to chat and ask questions about how the small groups will move forward.

There are several options available, including meeting on Wednesday or Sunday evenings and in mixed or single gender groups. To help with planning, your input on when/where etc would be much appreciated, there is a 2-question survey available here. Please complete it by Dec 31st (it will go offline at 11.30 pm that evening). Each group will meet in the picnic shelter for 45 minutes with both a fire bowl and fire in the grate burning for heat.

Potentially, this will increase the number of groups meeting from 1 to 4, so parents, if you can help out with any of these, even as a one-off, please let me know. Thank you.

In the meantime, I wish you every blessing for Christmas, may it be a time of peace, good health and celebration as we welcome again Jesus, God with us.

Andy

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Please complete an online youth permission form for each youth (sixth to 12th grade) in your family. The form is required for participation in youth and music ministry activities. Complete form

For those of you who were in our recent Christmas Concert, congratulations on a remarkably stunning performance! If you haven't watched it yet, be sure to click here and watch our amazing strings players in action! I'm equally excited about our upcoming virtual 5:30 Lessons & Carols service, since our youth ringers, singers, and strings players provide a lot of the music for that service. It will be an absolute Christmas treasure, so tune in with your family on Christmas Eve at 5:30 PM and sing along!

Looking ahead to the spring, Tamara and I currently anticipate a February 14 start date for music ensembles, including choir! The revised schedule will look like this:

For safety reasons, all singing will be done outdoors, masked, and socially distanced. In order to maximize our music programming on the choir front, I am asking that you click here to take a brief survey. This will be enormously helpful as we make plans.

This is the last call for "Carol of the Bells" recordings! We could really use a few more singers, so please consider recording yourself by Friday night at the absolute latest. Please click here to access the full instructions for recording. This project will bring so much joy to our congregation on Christmas Eve!