Happy New Year

It's half a day away, but here's wishing you a happy new year, anyway.

To start off the new year, there will be a Visioncasting Banquet on New Year's Day at the church. Youth meetings will be at the church every Friday at 7:30 pm as usual, except for January 27, when we will be attending the CT District Youth Lock-In.

Lastly - and this isn't youth-specific - instead of prayer groups this month, meetings will be held at the church from 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm. (Except for the 24th, when the annual business meeting will be held.)

That enough for ya?

We Turned the Light On

The 2005 Youth Retreat, Life With the Light On, took place November 18th and 19th. Here's an account from one of our own:

Life With the Light On was a great success. Everyone arrived Friday evening with sleeping bags and pillows in hand. We had an hour lesson in which we learned several different things. One was the 4 things you need to have before making decisions - prayer, the bible, knowledge of your circumstances, and good advice. After that it was time for pizza and games like Guesstures, Mad Gab, Catchphrase, and I believe there was even a game of dodge ball (or should I say dodge bean bag). We also found many different uses for light sticks. Then it was lights out at 1am . . . 2am . . . 3am . . . 4am . . . finally, everyone was asleep at 4:30am.
The next morning was beautiful. Some of the early birds went on a short walk and then Nathaniel, Doniece, and Antoinette provided a delicious breakfast. Following that, we all learned the importance of devotions. It's all about relationship with God. It was great, as you could really feel God's presence. Then there were separate lessons for the boys and girls. Finally we all went canoeing out on the pond - well, everyone except our fearless leaders. All in all it was a great time of fun, fellowship, and learning.

[Thanks to Page Martin]

Apologies go to Antoinette, because we initially misspelled her name.