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 Weekly E-news
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Dear youth and parents,
I'm sitting at a picnic table at Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark on South Padre Island after an AMAZING week with the high school youth and sponsors who participated in this year's CYF Mission Trip. I'm racing to finish this before my laptop battery dies, so read on for more info and follow the link to see photos from our trip!
Grace and Peace,
Russ
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See photos from the CYF Mission Trip to Los Fresnos online
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UCC's high school youth and adult sponsors are headed back to Fort Worth tomorrow after a week working with Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries in the Rio Grande Valley. We've posted lots of photos from our week of work repairing and reroofing a house, along with plenty from our play time as well. Take a look at
www.cyfmissiontrip.org and "like" our page if you're a Facebook user.
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Like thinking about snow? Help plan the 2011 CYF Ski Retreat
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 From Ginger Alford, Youth Ministry Committee chair: It's the perfect time of year to anticipate this winter's UCC Youth Biennial Ski Retreat tentatively scheduled for Dec. 28 - Jan 1, returning in time for participation in the Boar's Head Festival. Youth in grades 9-12 are included and participation in Sunday youth programming will be required. Preliminary planning has just begun and a team is being formed to pull all the pieces together: researching travel and cost options, booking bus and lodging, preparing informational flyers, staffing sign-up tables, and coordinating payments options and working with Russ to lay out a detailed travel itinerary. If you can help, please send e-mail to alfordfamily@charter.net. If you want to go and will be in high school this fall, watch the UCC Youth E-News for September registration dates. |
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Think reminders are helpful? Sign up for UCC Youth text alerts!
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 Our youth ministry is excited to offer text alerts as a way to stay connected! Typical text alerts will include reminders for meetings and events, as well as time-sensitive announcements if an event is moved or canceled due to weather. After you sign up for alerts, you will automatically be added to the appropriate group (Chi Rho or CYF) as well as any events for which you register (camps, mission trips, retreats). That way you only receive texts that are relevant to YOU! Messages will go to parents AND youth to ensure everyone is on the same page, and we're committed to sending no more than two alerts per week to avoid straining your service plan.
Sound good? Here's how to sign up:
1. Send the following text message to 1-423-299-3299:
Join #UCCFTW YourFirstName YourLastName
(Example: join #UCCFTW Russ Boyd) 2. You will receive a confirmation text. Reply YES to the confirmation.
3. You're done! We'll add you to the relevant groups and events. |
