Journey 101: Loving God Begins November 4

Journey 101: Loving God will begin Sunday, November 4, at 5:00 pm in room 209, led by Associate Pastor Stephen Coleman. This 5-week class is a perfect follow-up to Alpha or Reveille Today, as well as a great way to begin exploring how to love, know, and serve God in our daily lives. Topics covered include worship, prayer, study, guidance, fasting and submission. Register here now for Journey 101: Loving God, or contact Jennifer McCluskey at 359-6041 ext. 121 or here. Child care will be provided.

Transportation Help to "Get Out The Vote"

Election Day is quickly approaching. A group of Reveille volunteers will transport anyone who needs a ride to his or her own precinct to vote. If you would like to exercise your right to vote but need a ride to the polls, please call the church office at 359-6041, ext. 115.

More Volunteer Opportunities 

at Swansboro Elementary

If you are interested in getting involved but you are not sure you have the time, there are opportunities to fit just about everyone's schedule. Through Reveille you can be a guest reader, classroom helper, library helper (shelving, reading, bulletin boards), office assistant, music, art or physical education helper, organize a Girl Scout or Boy Scout troop, bake for teacher treats, or create your own dream volunteer opportunity! Additionally, if you feel called to commit to working with a child once a week as a mentor, a training session will be held Thursday, November 1, 5:30-8:30 pm at First Presbyterian Church (4602 Cary Street Road, 23226). Please prayerfully consider how you can be involved and email Laura Holdych, Swansboro Champion, for more information or call the church office, 359-6041, ext. 111.

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Support the Swansboro Fall Festival on November 3

The Swansboro PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) is putting on a community fall festival Saturday, November 3 from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm. Gather your friends and family and attend the festivities. Reveille groups are supporting the event by hosting a cakewalk and bake sale and staffing a popcorn machine. If you love to bake we are in need of more cakes and many homemade goodies. Also, we need people (including older children!) to staff the various booths we are sponsoring. Please prayerfully consider how you or your small group can get involved and email Laura Holdych, Swansboro Champion, or call the church office at 359-6041, ext. 111.

The Reveille Habitat Home in Swansboro

During 2013 the entire congregation will be challenged to support building a Habitat Home in the Swansboro community. A donor provided the land to Habitat for Humanity in  the spring of 2012, just after Reveille began inquiring about the process of sponsoring a home in Swansboro. Reveille's community, including adult small groups, Sunday school classes, youth groups, choirs, and whole families will team together to build a home for a single mom and her four children.

Over the next 12 months we will ask every member of our community to help by...  

Offering prayers

Volunteering at the construction site

Packing lunches

Participating in the Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar

Supporting summer camps at Swansboro Elementary  

Writing cards to the family and the community  

But for now, we ask that you support the Habitat project with your financial gifts. Instead of raising funds for this project, we hope to commit to the project by including it in our 2013 budget. The stewardship pledge results will determine if we anticipate adequate funding to support that budget including this project. Prayerfully consider your financial commitment to all Reveille ministries in 2013, including the Habitat home. On October 28, Consecration Sunday, bring your pledge card forward and help this ministry come to life!

For a pledge card or information about Electronic Fund Transfer look for information coming to your mailbox or contact Glynis Holcomb in the church office at 359-6041, ext. 118.

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"Purse"-onality with a Purpose!

Wednesday, November 7, 6:30-7:30 pm and

Thursday, November 8, 9:00 - 10:00 am

Ladies: Save the date for the evening of Wednesday, November 7 and start your girls' night out with a "new" bag. Come to Reveille's new welcome center to choose from a great selection of gently-used handbags donated by some of your most stylish friends. Take one home that night or drop by on Thursday morning for the very best deals.

Gently-used bags are needed for this auction, which will benefit the YWCA's Domestic Violence Program. Purses, diaper bags, evening bags, beach totes and little girls' purses may be dropped off during the Reveille Weekday School morning and afternoon carpool during the week of October 29 - November 2, or please contact one of these coordinators:

 Laura Holdych, Susanna Wesley Circle member

 Kimberly Hicks, Susanna Wesley Circle YWCA Liaison  

This event is a collaboration between Reveille Weekday School and the United Methodist Women's Susanna Wesley Circle to benefit the YWCA's Domestic Violence Program.

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Thank you to all 198 of our church members who volunteered to help combat hunger on Sunday, October 14. There was standing room only in both shifts! Through a fun and engaging assembly line process in the youth center, Reveille volunteers packaged 20,000 meals in just two hours. Click here to check out the slide show on our website. Reveille's participation in Stop Hunger Now is truly an example of Christians working to make a difference in God's world.

Youth News

Halloween is coming. This Sunday, October 28, our youth group continues our long-standing tradition of going to Haunted Evenings at Ashland Berry Farm. The cost is $22 per person. Just bring your payment that night (please make checks payable to Reveille UMC). Our schedule will change to accommodate the trip:

          4:30 pm - Combined choir

          5:30 pm - Quick dinner ($3)

          5:45 pm - Depart for hayride

          9:30 pm - Return from hayride

Please note we are extending the time a bit to allow folks to participate in more than one activity. This is an experiment, so bear with us. Youth participating should get their homework done early! Anyone who scares easily should think seriously before attending.

Parents: Support youth missions when you buy your groceries. Reveille is now participating in "Kroger Cares." For $5 you purchase a reloadable $5 Kroger gift card. Every time you use your card, Reveille's youth mission fund receives 5% of your total purchase. To purchase a card, please see or  email Dwayne in the church office.

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Your Discipleship Impacts Our Youth

This week we complete the roll-out of the youth ministry milestones for the congregation, lifting up ways the entire congregation can support and nurture discipleship in our youth. Last week's milestone focused on ways individual adults can get to know our youth more personally. This week's milestone focuses on what our church as a whole can do.

A few years ago, our Ministry Sunday speaker Dori Baker challenged Reveille to become a "greenhouse of hope" that nurtures the growth of youth in the faith. Churches must provide the kind of environment in which teens' faith can grow. In her blog (www.kendadean.com), Kenda Creasy Dean lists 10 characteristics of a healthy youth ministry. What Kenda means by "youth ministry" is really a church in which youth thrive. Among her suggestions are the following:

Safe space. Safety means physically safe, but also a space in which youth feel comfortable and free to be themselves without the anxiety of feeling judged or pressured. When adults offer a word of compliment or support and withhold criticism, they create a safe space for youth to grow.

A culture of permission and creativity. We must provide youth the freedom and opportunity to explore their faith in various ways, ("through words, actions, art and prayer") and invite youth to participate and lead fully. When youth express themselves through music, lay reading, serving or drama, Reveille can affirm that they are serving God as they use their gifts and talents.

A culture of theological awareness. This means that Reveille must talk openly and explicitly about what terms like grace, sin, redemption and hope mean to us and for us. We must grow into a church that shares our personal experiences of God and that articulates what we believe in meaningful and in-depth ways, that uses church language and helps those among us understand it.

Integration into worship and the life of the congregation at every level. Youth who become leaders in the church as adults begin as leaders during their teen years. We must view youth as a full part of our congregation now, not merely "the future of Reveille" and invite them to use their gifts to lead music, pray, teach, preach and serve.  

A community of belonging that is authentic, fun, and passionate about living as Christians in the world. We must be what we expect our teens to be-sincere and enthusiastic about our relationship with Christ and how we practice it. We must live with such joy that others see the beauty of a relationship with God.

A congregation where people actively seek God and talk about God as the subject of sentences. Reveille members must explicitly state how God is active in the world and here in Richmond, even in our lives. Youth need to hear from other Christians that God is present and continuing to create, renew, and redeem the world we live in.

These milestones are not merely a way to help youth grow. They are ways in which all of us can grow deeper and closer in our relationship with Christ and through Him with each other.

No Wonderful Wednesday this Week

Basketball Team Registration is Online

Reveille's church-league basketball team is forming for the 2012-13 season. The team participates in one of the competitive Henrico County recreational leagues.

The 14-game regular season begins the week of November 5 and concludes with a playoff tournament in early March. Weekly games are played on Tuesday and Thursday nights at Byrd Middle School.

Players must be 18 or older and cannot be listed on a current high school or college team roster. Non-Henrico residents pay a $15 fee.

Register here, or to obtain more information, please email Steve Knockemus.

Reveille's UMW Fall Bake Sale

Sunday, November 18

9:00 am - 12:00 noon

Pies, cakes, breads, cookies, chocolates and more will be on sale in the fellowship hall and in the main hallway of the education building on November 18, the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

If you are a United Methodist Women member and wish to donate a homemade goodie, you may deliver items to the fellowship hall kitchen on Friday, November 16 between 12:00 noon and 4:00 pm or bring your donations with you to church on Sunday, November 18. Be sure to label your baked goods Reveille UMW Bake Sale. Wrap your items appropriately and label each with its name (i.e.: coconut cake, chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin pie, etc.) and note clearly if it contains nuts. Pretty wrapping is a plus!

Proceeds from the fall bake sale will benefit the United Methodist Women's mission projects.

Joys and Concerns

IN MEMORIAM

James Albert Walton

June 6, 2012

SYMPATHY

The Reveille family extends Christian love and sympathy to Shanna Miles and family on the passing of her father, James Albert Walton; to Ed Bailey and family on the passing of his sister, Juanita Bailey Wages, of Columbia South Carolina, on October 12; to Fred Jarratt and family and Helen Sue Agee and family on the passing of their sister/aunt, Katherine Jarratt, on October 12 in Chesterfield; and to Stephanie Williams and family on the recent passing of her mother, Lonnie Hurley.

BAPTIZED

October 21, 2012

Hayes Thompson Crone, son of Kate and Ty Crone

Andersen James Young, son of Cate and Kevin Young

Issues and Deadlines for The Reveille Window

Staff

Jim Noland, Senior Pastor

Katie B. Anthony, Associate Pastor

Stephen Coleman, Associate Pastor

Cathy Armistead, Director of Music Ministries

Tamara Nicely, Assistant Director of Music Ministries

Lori Epps, Director of Children's Ministries

Jennifer McCluskey, Director of Adult Ministries

Dwayne Stinson, Director of Youth Ministries

Kaarina Jobe, Worship and Music Leader for The Point

Anne Stratton, Administrative Manager

Cheryl Arrington, Pastoral and Congregational Care Secretary

Bill Wright, Facilities Manager

Glynis Holcomb, Financial Manager

Thomas Goodall, Custodian

Elaine Kastelberg, Director of Weekday School