As team information becomes available, it will be posted at www.ngtdteams.org  

NEW applications postmarked before October 1, will receive a $25 discount on the weekend fee.  The discount will be applied at the Candidate's send-off.

 

As always, please prayerfully consider those in your life that you would like to sponsor for a Tres Dias weekend.  Remember that sponsoring someone for Tres Dias does not mean that you must pay  their weekend fee.  Determine if financial help is needed.  IF you can help, please do.  Be sure to share with your candidate that even though you may have paid or helped to pay their weekend fee, it is not a requirement for them to pay the weekend fee for anyone they sponsor.  The weekend fee can be paid by either candidate or sponsor.

 

Do not forget to take advantage of the Sponsorship Drive!!

 

For questions or more information, contact preweekend@ngtd.org.

 

Your Help Needed to Fill Open Secretariat Positions

The Tres Dias Community needs you!!!  There are several Secretariat positions available beginning in January 2012.  This is one way to give back to the Tres Dias Community and have a lasting effect on this great arm of God's army.  There are many positives, including:

• Voting for upcoming Rectors, policy changes, and other leadership decisions,
• Being a voice for the Community and making an impact with your ideas,
• Knowing that your service helps to make the Weekend experience better for Candidates, Sponsors and Team Members, and
• Aid in the development of new Tres Dias Communities.

It does not require a lot of your time, for instance;

• We meet once a month, ten months of the year.
• You typically support only 2 sets of Weekends a year, since we have two individuals/couples for each Service Area.
• You would respond to occasional emails.

The open positions are:

• Weekend Couple - Omega:  Opens and/or closes the camp each weekend.  Work closely with each of the Team Section Heads.
• Pre-Weekend Couple - Omega:  Receives and processes applications for TD attendance.  Contact sponsors when their candidate can attend a weekend. Conducts and coordinates activities for/at Send-offs.
• Food Management Couple - Omega:  Assists the Head Kitchen with menu selection, training and purchasing all food for the weekends.

The term of service is 3 years.  Training is conducted for each position and there is a lot of support available.

Please prayerfully consider serving in one of these positions or speaking with someone you think would be great in one of these positions.  If you are interested in a more formal job description, and/or would like to discuss the commitment required in Secretariat service, contact George Flury, Chairman - Elect, at chairman@tdng.org. 

TDNG operates and maintains several active bank accounts. One of these active bank accounts that our community maintains is called the Endowment Fund.  This account was primarily set-up so that money that is donated and deposited into this account can be used for scholarships and the funding and support for new Tres Dias communities.  If you would like to help support emerging Tres Dias communities, contact treasurer@ngtd.org for more information. 

The music director (sometimes called music cha, music chief, or worship cha) is responsible for coordinating the musical events of the team meetings and the Weekend.  These events vary from community to community, but frequently include song practice, the opening ceremony, liturgies, the agape festival (where celebrated) and planned and unplanned musical interludes which might be needed during the Weekend.  Tres Dias has a Musical Director's Guide (available from the Services Committee) to assist the music director in these tasks.  The music director must coordinate his/her choice of songs with the rector and the spiritual directors, to make sure the songs are appropriate to the place in the Weekend and the activity being conducted.

While not necessarily the best situation, in some communities, due to the constraint on the number of team members they are able to use, and experienced music director may also be asked to serve as a table leader or as a rollista.  These extra responsibilities can present an added burden to the music director.  Such assignments, though, demanding, provide further opportunities to witness and to be a Christian leader.

In the next issue, we will present the role of the Rollista..