Thanksgiving shouldn't be depressing!
From: Timothy Dempsey <tdempsey@reconx.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Subject: Thanksgiving shouldn't be depressing!
To: aflynn@signalcrestumc.org
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A few years ago, I attended a conference on the importance of fatherhood and being a good father. It was a worthwhile activity for me. Since then, I have received weekly emails from Fathers.com, a respectable organization which provides tips, encouragement and ideas to help one become a better dad.
From these emails, I read about the movie “Courageous,” out in theaters now. It is produced by Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., the same group behind the movies “Facing the Giants” and“Fireproof” if you are familiar with those. This movie is supposed to have a very strong message for fathers.
I would love for a large group of dads from Signal Crest to go see this movie together. While I don’t think the movie will earn any Academy Awards for its production or acting, from what I have seen, we will go away from the theater with a new perspective on fatherhood, or at least, reaffirm what we are already doing as fathers or should be doing.
Let’s try this Wednesday night, Nov. 2. There is a 7:10 pm showing at Northgate Carmike 14 which would give you time to eat dinner at Wednesday Night Live if you'd like. There is a chance we could take the church microbus depending on the number of guys interested in participating.
Please send an email to jeffromero@epbfi.com if you would like to go and we will reply to you with a meeting place and time. Feel free to forward this to other men in the church who may not receive this email.
Here is a preview of the film: http://www.courageousthemovie.com/
Thank you.
Hello Signal Crest members and friends!
The Signal Crest Youth invite you to come out and help us unload pumpkins this Saturday, October 1st at 11:30 a.m. We need all the help we can get b/c this is a BIG job! The more people we have, the less time it takes. We usually work for about 2 hours. A free lunch from 517 will be provided! Come join us this Saturday!
Thanks!
Kristin Robertson
Director of Youth Ministries
Signal Crest UMC
Habitat for Humanity will be working at 2912 Curtis Street 37406, doing some inside finish work. If you would like to join the team, please meet in the upper parking lot of the church at 8:30. If you have any questions, please call Jack Montgomery, 886-0346.
Anyone over the age of 16 can join the work crew and it is such a great day! If you can't meet in the parking lot, you are welcome to join the team at the site...just let Jack know you are coming!
If members or your family enjoy watching the ABC-TV game show “Wipeout,” Saturday is your chance to participate in similar teamwork challenges as well as help end childhood hunger.
For just $15, your family can attempt to tackle some messy and silly obstacles at the “Hunger Wipeout Obstacle Challenge.”
The event takes place this Saturday at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank with registration beginning at 9:30 a.m. Along with the obstacles are goofy games, entertainment booths, prizes and raffles and delicious food vendors.
Individual participants pay only $8. All proceeds go toward the fight against childhood hunger.
For more information or to register online, visit www.chattfoodbank.org.
It’s time to plan Signal Crest’s annual Christmas party for children served by Signal Mountain Social Services. The party is scheduled for Saturday, December 3 at 10:30 a.m. and invitations are in the mail. Now someone needs to plan the party!
Volunteers from Signal Crest are going to meet on Sunday, September 18 at 5:00 p.m. in the carpeted Narthex to plan the Christmas party. There are a couple of volunteers already on board, but we can’t do it alone – we need help!
You are invited to become part of this wonderful ministry. It’s a great way to meet your fellow church members, the task to be done is not difficult, and the results will warm your heart. You do not even have to attend the party to help.
If you would like more information, call Sharon Dorough at 886-7677. We hope you will join us!
It is time to sign up to work the Pumpkin Patch for October 2011! If you are not familiar with this fundraiser, it is the largest one that the Signal Crest Youth have all year long. The youth sell pumpkins in our front lawn for the entire month of October and usually end up raising around $3,000. It is definitely the event that carries us through each and every summer! In order to make this happen, we need everyone at Signal Crest to be involved! We ask that each of you consider taking a shift. If we get each household on our schedule, then we won't have any spots left to fill! Laura BeVille, one of our youth parents, is coordinating the pumpkin patch fundraiser for us this year and has created a public calendar online that you can use for reference. Please click on the calendar link below, pick out your date and time, and then call her to let her know which one you want. Pumpkins arrive on October 1st, so the sale will begin on October 2nd. Please let us know if you have any questions!
www.localendar.com/public/PumpkinPatch
Kristin Robertson
Director of Youth Ministries
Signal Crest United Methodist Church