Youth News

On Sunday, April 14, the youth group will begin planning for Youth Sunday, which is scheduled for May 12. In addition, we will work on decorations and planning for the UMFS (United Methodist Family Services) prom on May 18, which Reveille's youth are hosting. We have a great deal to accomplish, but it is fun and exciting to provide leadership for these events.

The schedule for the evening is as follows:

     4:30 pm - Middle school youth group/high school choir

     5:30 pm - Dinner ($3)

     6:00 pm - High school youth group/middle school choir

SMALL GROUPS FOR YOUTH 

Our youth ministry is offering a variety of small groups as another opportunity to deepen your faith and connect with friends from Reveille during the week. If you are interested, please contact Dwayne Stinson or Ansley Higginbotham for more information. The schedule for the groups is as follows:

Middle School Girls: Tuesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm, alternating between the home of Lori and John Salmon and the home of Tim and Wendi Black. Please contact Ansley with questions about location.

Middle School Boys: Wednesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm, in the youth center at Reveille

Possess Plenty of Pants, Perhaps?

On May 18, Reveille's youth ministry will provide a prom for approximately 70  students at United Methodist Family Services. Many of these students come from  families without the resources to purchase appropriate dress clothes. While Reveille has provided prom dresses for the junior and senior girls, we still need help for the boys and young men.

We can use suits, slacks, dress shirts, tuxedoes, shoes, and other accessories. There is a coat rack in the youth center for donations. Please feel free to hang clothing items on the rack at any time. For more information please email Dwayne  in the church office.  We would like to end the collection on April 14 to allow time for alterations.

Tuesday, April 16, 11:00 am  

Fellowship Hall

Covered Dish Luncheon: Main dish and drinks provided.

Please bring your favorite side dish or dessert.

Program: Fritz Horisk will play his guitar while lending his voice in song.

Wonderful Wednesday Meal 

April 17

Please join us for our fellowship meal at 6:00 pm in the fellowship hall.The menu  will be baked ziti with meat sauce, pasta primavera with roasted vegetables, Caesar salad, garlic bread, cookies and brownies. The cost for the meal is $5 for adults and teens, $3 for children ages 4 to 12 and free for anyone under 4. Please make a reservation for dinner here, sign up on the friendship pad during Sunday worship, or call the church office at 359-6041 on Monday. Click here for upcoming menus and programs for Wednesday night meals.

April Friends of the Homeless Hot Meal

On Thursday, April 25, Reveille members will serve a hot meal of roasted chicken, cheesy potato casserole, green beans, and dessert to homeless Richmonders. There are several ways you can help:

• Prepare a potato casserole. You may pick up the recipe, including drop-off instructions, from the sign-up board in the welcome center. We need a total of 12 casseroles.
• Be a server (we need six) at Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. Meet us at Reveille at 11:00 am and carpool, or meet us at the site. For child care while serving the meal, email Lori Epps, or call her at 359-6041, ext. 117, one week prior.
• Bake some cupcakes, brownies, or cookies.
• Donate some of the following items: Gallon-size plastic bags, plastic Tupperware-like containers (used containers are fine), and 55-gallon trash bags. A collection area for these items is next to the elevator in the alcove off the red carpet.

Join us for Rebuilding Together on April 27 

It's not too late to sign up for Rebuilding Together. Teams from Reveille will help remodel three houses in the Fulton Hill neighborhood. Our tasks will include removing clutter, painting inside and out, installing vapor barriers in a crawl space, replacing a bathroom floor, rebuilding railing and steps on the back porch, and many other projects. You do not need to have any special skills.  

The co-champions for this ministry are Tim Johnson, Steven Roberts, and RC Hall. If you have questions, please email RC or call Katie B. Anthony at 359-6041, ext. 111, by April 21. Sign up here to participate. 

Swansboro Cleanup Day Needs Leadership

Reveille will join the Swansboro community to clean up the Swansboro area on the morning of May 18. City refuse trucks are scheduled to assist volunteers in getting rid of yard waste, furniture, tires and other trash littering the neighborhood.  

Reveille needs someone to step up and help coordinate the Reveille volunteers. This leader will communicate with the city, community leaders, and Reveille volunteers about meet-up locations and cleanup day instructions.

If you would like to help lead Reveille's team, email Katie B. Anthony or call 359-6041, ext. 111. To sign-up for Reveille's team register here.  

Sign Up Now for Summer of Service

Reveille's Summer of Service kicked off on April 6 with the hosting of CARITAS families. Throughout this summer, Reveille will focus on its role as the Body of Christ called to serve the world. In addition to hands-on mission opportunities, we also will offer special Sunday school series and evening guest speakers.  

For a listing of some of the programs and events, please see the Summer of Service brochure. To sign up, please click here. 

Help Needed with Collection of Sunday School

Parents of rising third through sixth graders:

Kaleidoscope Registration is Open

Kaleidoscope is a fun music and worship arts camp for rising third through sixth graders that takes place at the Blackstone Conference and Retreat Center (formerly VUMAC) in Blackstone, Virginia, August 5 through 9. In addition to daily choir rehearsals with guest director James Wells, participants enjoy classes in Orff instruments, handbells, crafts, Scripture and worship, and recreation. Campers will also lead and participate in daily worship. For more information, please email Tamara Nicely. Don't delay: Registration closes soon.

Helping Hands Mission Opportunity

Vacation Bible School Registration Begins

Vacation Bible School, open to children from age four through rising second graders, will take place July 29-August 2 from 9:00 am to noon. This year's theme is "Everywhere Fun Fair."  The children will learn about our neighbors in countries such as Japan, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico. They will focus on the Bible verse theme, "Love the Lord your God....and your neighbor as yourself," from Luke 10:27. Activities will include crafts, missions, music, recreation, and snack time. It will be a great week as we look to see how God's world comes together.  

Online registration begins Sunday, April 14. Visit us in the welcome center on Sunday, April 14, for more information about VBS, to sign up to volunteer, and to enjoy some snacks and surprises related to this year's theme. For more information, please email Jennifer Rosen or call Lori Epps, Director of Children's Ministries, at 359-6041, ext. 117.

Day Camp Registration Begins

Day Camp, which is open to children entering third through sixth grades, will take place July 29-August 2 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. This year's theme is "Follow Jesus." The children will go out into our community and serve others in Jesus' name, and they will learn about loving God and each other through various activities here at Reveille. On Thursday evening we will host a celebration of the week for participants and their parents, followed by a sleepover for the children. Registration begins Sunday, April 14. 

If you would like to volunteer to help during the week, please email Ellie Speer or Lori Epps, or call 359-6041, ext. 117. 

Needs for Children's Ministry Area

We have such a blessing here at Reveille with the abundance of children and families attending. Along with this blessing comes a responsibility. At the baptism of each child, we vow to support them and to help raise them in our church. It is a true joy to be able to serve in the children's ministry and to be able to model Christ for them. We are putting together a Children's Ministry Council and would love for anyone in the congregation who is interested in helping out to join us. Our second meeting will take place on Sunday, April 28, in the Reveille House dining room following the 11:00 am worship service. We will provide a light lunch. Please RSVP to Lori Epps here. 

Listed below are many opportunities for you to serve in the children's ministry at Reveille. We offer training and guidance for each area listed below. If you are interested in volunteering, or if you would like more information, please email Amy Donald or Lori Epps.  

• Co -director for VBS for 2013 and 2014 (You will serve with Jennifer Rosen, Director 2013.)
• Two co-directors of day camp for 2013 (You will serve with Ellie Speer, Director 2013.)
• Volunteer storytellers for VBS - Jennifer McCluskey is leading the storytelling center
• Mission Center Leader for VBS
• Six leaders for day camp to assist with the three groups of children
• Four leaders for day camp to assist with the centers
• Sunday school teachers- summer and fall
• Summer 2013 family events (movies on the lawn, pool party, family game night)
• Easter Egg Hunt Team Leader- 2014
• Advent Wreath Team Leader (part of Wonderful Wednesday during Advent)
• Caroling Organizer (part of Wonderful Wednesday during Advent)
• Christmas Eve family service team members
• Nursery Champion
• Team members for planning an open house for Sunday school kick off, September 9, 2013
• Chair of Children's Council 2014 (Work with Amy Donald to transition)
• Organizers (If you are interested in helping clean out and organize closets, we could really use your help! We can schedule around your availability.)

Temperaments and Parenting Styles

The Reveille Weekday School invites you to attend a workshop on temperaments and parenting styles during the National Week of the Young Child. It will take place on Wednesday, April 17, beginning at 9:15 am in Reveille's church parlor.

Come and learn about your parenting style and how that may or may not be the best fit for your child's temperament.  The workshop will provide concrete suggestions to help your child and family thrive. 

Joys and Concerns

IN MEMORIAM

Keith W. McNeer, M.D.

April 2, 2013

SYMPATHY

The Reveille family extends Christian love and sympathy to Mary Jo McNeer and family on the death of her husband, Keith; and to Judy Wimbish and family on the death of her sister, Katherine McGranahan Holdytch, on April 8.

UMW Bake Sale was a Success!

The Palm Sunday bake sale raised more than $1,270 for local charities. The United Methodist Women (UMW) will again fund two children from the Swansboro community to attend camp this summer at Westview-On-The-James.

A special thank-you goes to all the UMW members who participated, especially Donna Fay Kessel, who provided the beautiful quilts as decoration and arrived first thing Sunday morning to set it all up. Thanks, also, to all who purchased baked goods.

Annually, the United Methodist Women host two bake sales that provide funding for the missions supported by the circles and also promote intergenerational opportunities for circle members to work together.

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

Glynis Holcomb, Financial Manager

Ken Case, Facilities Manager

Lisa Adams, Administrative Assistant 

Cheryl Arrington, Pastoral and Congregational Care Secretary

Thomas Goodall, Custodian

Darius Stokes, Custodian

Elaine Kastelberg, Director of Weekday School

Beverley Tilley, Weekday School Administrative Assistant