Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Future of Campaigners/ Club/ few other things

Hey guys, So it looks like November is going to go down as the month we didn't have Campaigners and were forced out of our comfortable bubbles to do some major contact work at Wilson.

I'm going to go through the C's and give you a brief update for our Wilson team
Contact Work- Praise God Kristen Fagley started helping out w/ coaching the swim team, and that we found an awesome opportunity to help out Monday-Thursday after school from 3:15-4:15ish handing out snacks to kids taking after school classes.
It's a pretty sweet C.Work opportunity so if you're free any of those days M-Thursday let me or Kaleah know and feel free to join us.

Campaigners- We will officially not start Campaigners back up again till the Wednesday after Thanksgiving. It turns out they have one last play rehearsal on Wednesday so if any of you guys are around Thursday I am planning on meeting kids from the play over at Steak and Egg after school.
I also had a cool meeting with Ms. Miles at the IJM office in Virginia this week and we are in the planning stages of a small fundraiser with them next year which we hope will serve on two fronts as an opportunity for our kids to become more knowledgeable about some of the injustices going on in the world they may be unaware of and also as an opportunity for us to reach out to some kids at Wilson who may be opposed to Christianity but can't argue with a good cause. I will keep you posted but for now we are planning on having some one from IJM come out to share on December 17th for Campaigners that will be followed by a Christmas Party / White Elephant Gift Exchange.

Camp- For those of you who couldn't make Leadership this past Friday the main thing we talked about was that even though we have a great goal of getting to know 200 kids by name this year and getting 25 kids to camp that ultimately what drives us is having a direct impact on even a single kids life.
I gave out a sheet with some practical suggestions for how to make an impact and Disciple a kid and Kaleah and I have attempted to match you up with somebody so if you don't know who your kid is ask Kaleah and she'll hook you up.
What this has to do with camp is that I want you to start by contacting your kids parents and telling them about our ski trip Jan 30-Feb1st price $200 and deposit of $50 due by the end of the month if possible (price is negotiable for those kids we think need the help).
Bottom line here is we need to act now especially with those kids we already know well and who have been to camp before to get them signed up and get their friends signed up.

Club- As we've talked about before one of our goals this year is to kind of transition some elements of Club and Outreach events into our normal Campaigner group and opportunities to just reach out to some new kids.
More on this soon but just be praying about a harder push towards getting Club started when we get back from Camp in Feberuary and some cool outreach events leading up to it in December and January.

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