Dear Agape class:
Mark your calenders now!!!
WHAT? Agape First Friday in January
WHEN? January 9 at 7pm.
I know we don't like changing up the "first" in the First Friday, but since the first Friday in January is one day after New Year's, and we want as many people as possible to participate, we're changing to the Second Friday in January.
WHERE? The Busey house:: Heather's generously offered to host and prepare the main course if everyone else will sign up to bring sides, bread, salad, dessert and/or beverages.
WHY? We really really need a planning session and officer elections in January but with some of our class gone each week in the Great Adventure, it seems like a better idea is to combine this "housekeeping" with our First Friday gathering. We can have dinner at someone's house and mix in a bit of business and brainstorming for 2009. What better way to ring in the new year than to get everyone's input for Agape??
It's really important that we all sit down to discuss what we want out of Agape, in terms of each aspect- curriculum, socials, missions, etc. It will be a way for all of us to recommit to Agape and St. Lukes! Please plan on attending!!!
This will be both fun and productive- plenty of food and drink and dessert- and fantastic conversation and ideas for how to guide and improve our class! I can't wait to hear everyone's ideas and think this will be the perfect setting- relaxed fellowship- to discuss!
Let me know if you have any suggestions or want specific feedback for certain areas of the class. While we don't have to be overly structured in our discussion, we should touch on all areas of the class. We will also touch on the feedback we've already received from the surveys.
Please also let Heather know if you would like to nominate someone for a class office (including yourself).
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christmas Mission- Family in Need
Please sign up and bring items to the church by Monday at 5 pm. Please email Amy C with your contribution so we don't overlap!
You can put your gifts in Amy C's office. (Charlotte's old office).
(Mom)
size 12 or large pants and shirt. would like something to wear to church, too.
shoes 9
Girl age 12 1/2
size 12-14 (tall girl)
shoes -- 4
teenage toy idea
Girl age 9
size 12 (short)
shoes 2
coat 10-12---Jon and Katie Arps
toys -- anything
Girl age 6 will be 7 in January
size 8- McIntires- We can get a couple of shirts and pants
shoes 13 or 1
toys -- anything
all the girls like arts/crafts stuff- Rachel
food basket
You can put your gifts in Amy C's office. (Charlotte's old office).
(Mom)
size 12 or large pants and shirt. would like something to wear to church, too.
shoes 9
Girl age 12 1/2
size 12-14 (tall girl)
shoes -- 4
teenage toy idea
Girl age 9
size 12 (short)
shoes 2
coat 10-12---Jon and Katie Arps
toys -- anything
Girl age 6 will be 7 in January
size 8- McIntires- We can get a couple of shirts and pants
shoes 13 or 1
toys -- anything
all the girls like arts/crafts stuff- Rachel
food basket
Important Upcoming Dates
We will be having quarterly planning sessions to talk about the direction of our class and ideas for the future. Please plan to attend!
Planning Sessions: Mar 1, May 31, Aug 30, Nov 22
Do you love Agape? I know you do! Bring a friend or friends to share this wonderful group of people with others!
Bring a Guest Day: Jan 25, Feb 22, Mar 22, Apr 19, May 24, June 21, Jul 26, Aug 16, Sept 20, Oct 25, Nov 15, Dec 20
Planning Sessions: Mar 1, May 31, Aug 30, Nov 22
Do you love Agape? I know you do! Bring a friend or friends to share this wonderful group of people with others!
Bring a Guest Day: Jan 25, Feb 22, Mar 22, Apr 19, May 24, June 21, Jul 26, Aug 16, Sept 20, Oct 25, Nov 15, Dec 20
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Update on Great Adventure sign up
Here is the list of people signed up to teach in January. If you can help fill in the blanks or have questions, contact Laetitia.
Jan. 4
Mountain movers: Mitchell and Laetitia
Paris Plaza: Marci and Christopher
Kings Court Paul and Christa
Jan. 11
MM: Marci and Christopher
PP: Lisa and Patrick
KC: Amy and Dillon
Jan. 18
MM: Jonathan and Mitchell
PP: Randa and Mike (Rachel)
KC Marci and Christopher
Jan. 25
MM: Glendon and Jayne
PP:
KC:
Jan. 4
Mountain movers: Mitchell and Laetitia
Paris Plaza: Marci and Christopher
Kings Court Paul and Christa
Jan. 11
MM: Marci and Christopher
PP: Lisa and Patrick
KC: Amy and Dillon
Jan. 18
MM: Jonathan and Mitchell
PP: Randa and Mike (Rachel)
KC Marci and Christopher
Jan. 25
MM: Glendon and Jayne
PP:
KC:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christmas Mission- Gifts for the Homebound Delivery
Amy C has the gifts for the homebound ready to deliver. You can pick them up in her office at the church. Please contact her if you have any questions.
Monday, December 1, 2008
2009 Curriculum and Class Planning
From Heather:
Agape friends,Thank you so much for your positive and honest feedback on Sunday. We have much to look forward to in the coming year.Some of the changes (all good ones!) that will take place beginning December 7th are:
· Sign up sheet (back by popular demand!)
· Quarterly planning sessions in class.
· Email visitors’ email/contact info to entire class so those who want to can send a “welcome” email.
· Last and MOST important – we need to be on time. Class does begin at 9:40. We should be finishing up our lesson at 10:30, so everyone has time to socialize before church. Let us all make a resolution to be there on time during Advent.
I’d like to get several people together to talk about the results of the survey and how we can implement some and move forward. We also need to discuss curriculum and teachers in the coming year. I know it will be crazy with the holidays coming up. Let me know if you’d like to take part. We can start planning immediately after the New Year if that works best for everyone else.
Laetitia Clark will be starting our Advent series this coming Sunday from the book “Hurry Less Worry Less at Christmastime.” Let me know if you have questions or concerns. Thanks again for the feedback, and I’ll be looking forward to spending Advent with all of you, growing in our faith!
Agape friends,Thank you so much for your positive and honest feedback on Sunday. We have much to look forward to in the coming year.Some of the changes (all good ones!) that will take place beginning December 7th are:
· Sign up sheet (back by popular demand!)
· Quarterly planning sessions in class.
· Email visitors’ email/contact info to entire class so those who want to can send a “welcome” email.
· Last and MOST important – we need to be on time. Class does begin at 9:40. We should be finishing up our lesson at 10:30, so everyone has time to socialize before church. Let us all make a resolution to be there on time during Advent.
I’d like to get several people together to talk about the results of the survey and how we can implement some and move forward. We also need to discuss curriculum and teachers in the coming year. I know it will be crazy with the holidays coming up. Let me know if you’d like to take part. We can start planning immediately after the New Year if that works best for everyone else.
Laetitia Clark will be starting our Advent series this coming Sunday from the book “Hurry Less Worry Less at Christmastime.” Let me know if you have questions or concerns. Thanks again for the feedback, and I’ll be looking forward to spending Advent with all of you, growing in our faith!
Curriculum Discussion 2009
Suggestions from Linda Truitt for 2009 Curriculum:
What you might think of doing is defining what your class wants to learn in 2009. Develop just simple statements such as I want to know what Methodist believe, I want to enrich my prayer life, ETC, then work around those, otherwise you end up with a bunch of hodge podge.
Love/Marriage- the 5 love languages, 5 lanuages of Apology,getting the love you want, Love life for every couple. And more Healthy families a study for 20-30 year olds, Rick Warrens- God's purpose for your life. I have lots of books on prayer or spiritual discernment, books on theology and what we believe. I have books on other faiths,One of the other classes did a whole year with James Moore, he a prolific writer, they enjoyed it-I have lots of James Moores books such as -"Is there life after stress" and many other titles.
From Heather: Any of these topics jump out at you? How about thinking about a “vision” statement for our class in 2009? We could put it on the website and blog and Facebook.I know many of these that Linda suggested are more “personal growth”, which might be good “in-betweeners” but I thought the idea of the “My Upmost for his Highest” or “The Imitation of Christ” might be good starting points? Thoughts?
One more thing…I had an idea that I’d love to have feedback on. What if, like our lessons, we divided our missions into quarters. For example:
· Q1 – “On Whose Shoulders We Stand”
o Mobile Mealso Blizzard Packs, Visiting the Homebound
· Q2 – “Within the Walls of the Church”
o Studio 222o Samuel’s Call
· Q3 – “The Future of Our Church”
o Children’s Ministrieso VBS volunteering
· Q4 – “Outside the Walls of the Church”
o Volunteer at Food Bank
o Volunteer at Infant Crisis Center
o Sponsoring a family for Christmas
What you might think of doing is defining what your class wants to learn in 2009. Develop just simple statements such as I want to know what Methodist believe, I want to enrich my prayer life, ETC, then work around those, otherwise you end up with a bunch of hodge podge.
Love/Marriage- the 5 love languages, 5 lanuages of Apology,getting the love you want, Love life for every couple. And more Healthy families a study for 20-30 year olds, Rick Warrens- God's purpose for your life. I have lots of books on prayer or spiritual discernment, books on theology and what we believe. I have books on other faiths,One of the other classes did a whole year with James Moore, he a prolific writer, they enjoyed it-I have lots of James Moores books such as -"Is there life after stress" and many other titles.
From Heather: Any of these topics jump out at you? How about thinking about a “vision” statement for our class in 2009? We could put it on the website and blog and Facebook.I know many of these that Linda suggested are more “personal growth”, which might be good “in-betweeners” but I thought the idea of the “My Upmost for his Highest” or “The Imitation of Christ” might be good starting points? Thoughts?
One more thing…I had an idea that I’d love to have feedback on. What if, like our lessons, we divided our missions into quarters. For example:
· Q1 – “On Whose Shoulders We Stand”
o Mobile Mealso Blizzard Packs, Visiting the Homebound
· Q2 – “Within the Walls of the Church”
o Studio 222o Samuel’s Call
· Q3 – “The Future of Our Church”
o Children’s Ministrieso VBS volunteering
· Q4 – “Outside the Walls of the Church”
o Volunteer at Food Bank
o Volunteer at Infant Crisis Center
o Sponsoring a family for Christmas
Agape Mission Project: Great Adventure Teaching in January 2009
From Laetitia:
As most of you know the Agape class has volunteered to serve the church by teaching Sunday school in the Great Adventure. This is the children's Sunday school for grades K-5. We still need people to sign up to teach. We need two teachers (So you don't have to teach alone) for three of the classes. That is a total of six people every Sunday in January. If you are not teaching, we will still have class. If everyone would volunteer for one Sunday, we would not need to have people miss an entire month of class. Thank you so much for your willingness to serve the children of our church. This means so much to our church family!Please know the curriculum is written and easy to follow. You will get it ahead of time, so you can ask questions. If you teach in the same room for more than one week, the curriculum stays the same. The kids change.
January 4
Mountain Movers (Games): Mitchell and Laetitia Clark
Paris Plaza (Cooking/Crafts): Marci and Christopher
King's Court (acting/ costumes): ______________________
January 11Mountain Movers: Marci and Christopher
Paris Plaza: __________________
KIngs Court: Amy and Dillon Curran
January 18
Mountain Movers: Jonathan Arps and ______________
Paris Plaza : ___________________________
Kings Court: Marci and Christopher
January 25
Mountain Movers ___________________________
Paris Plaza ___________________________
Kings Court ____________________________
As most of you know the Agape class has volunteered to serve the church by teaching Sunday school in the Great Adventure. This is the children's Sunday school for grades K-5. We still need people to sign up to teach. We need two teachers (So you don't have to teach alone) for three of the classes. That is a total of six people every Sunday in January. If you are not teaching, we will still have class. If everyone would volunteer for one Sunday, we would not need to have people miss an entire month of class. Thank you so much for your willingness to serve the children of our church. This means so much to our church family!Please know the curriculum is written and easy to follow. You will get it ahead of time, so you can ask questions. If you teach in the same room for more than one week, the curriculum stays the same. The kids change.
January 4
Mountain Movers (Games): Mitchell and Laetitia Clark
Paris Plaza (Cooking/Crafts): Marci and Christopher
King's Court (acting/ costumes): ______________________
January 11Mountain Movers: Marci and Christopher
Paris Plaza: __________________
KIngs Court: Amy and Dillon Curran
January 18
Mountain Movers: Jonathan Arps and ______________
Paris Plaza : ___________________________
Kings Court: Marci and Christopher
January 25
Mountain Movers ___________________________
Paris Plaza ___________________________
Kings Court ____________________________
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