Jan 6, 2008: Class Meeting

Class Social: January 19, “Recycled Christmas”: In the class meeting today, the class decided to revisit a class tradition: The Recycled Christmas Party. Here are the details on the party:
Date and Place: January 19 at home of David and Carla McCorvey
Time: Nursery at church open at 4:30, food laid out at McCorvey's at 5:00 pm
Activities: Shared meal, Exchange of recycled gifts, ... and perhaps visits by noted rock groups!
Food: Chicken Fingers provided by McCorveys. Other dishes provided by guests. [Note: If you are non-cooker, come anyway. You need what your classmates will provide.]

Here are the dishes that were pledged at the class meeting today:
Hagan- dessert

Linton - main dish

Wheeler- fruit salad

McDowell- let them know what is needed [Sarah and John, just make a choice in view of what your see here]

Snider- potatoes or veggies

Everly- Dessert

Murphy- side dish

Larsh- side dish
For More Info: Call Carla or David at 920-8080.

What is a “Recycled Gift?” A “recycled gift” is that unusual Christmas gift that you are not quite sure what to do with. In some cases it will be a very nice gift that just does not fit your persona/your interests/your décor. In other cases, all may have cause to wonder, “why would anyone give this?” The gifts will be exchanged using a very confusing set of rules that you will only understand after you have lost the gift your heart desires (unless Tony Murphy manages to impose order on chaos.)
Final Note: This social will take the place of the Super Bowl social that had been tentatively discussed several weeks ago.

Birthday Info to be posted: In class meeting today, we passed around the roster for the class to get updates on emails, phone numbers, and addresses. [If any class member would like to have your own personalized copy of this roster, email Ed and he will provide it to you]. One piece of information that is on the roster for some families is information about family birthdays. Paul Snider is going to take that information and produce a birthday posting on our class Blog. [It will live under the label Birthdays]. In class today, we gave people the opportunity to signal that they did not want birthdays posted by removing them from the roster. However, several folks (Alfords, Hicks, Maynard, Minceys, West) were not there to remove their birthdays.

Safe Sanctuary Training: Safe Sanctuary training for the Southern Conference of UMC will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at Pittman Park UMC in Statesboro and on Saturday, February 16, 2008 at Waycross First UMC in Waycross. Claire hopes to attend the February 16 training and then work with Amy, Carla, Chrissy and others to produce a training session for the entire church. Before the end of this year, all members of WBUMC who work with children will need to have completed this training.

Curriculum: Many thanks to Karen Clarke for getting us started on the curriculum entitled: Intentional Choices: discovering contentment in stressful times. We will be in this curriculum over the next several weeks.

Special Things Ahead:
We are pleased that on January 27, Pastor John Haney will be our guest teacher.
We are pleased that, should the Wheeler grandchild Natalie be baptized on February 24, Professor Tony Murphy will take the podium to teach that day.
Ski trip is tentatively scheduled for Feb 5-10. Anyone interested, talk to Mitch.