Guess Who’s Coming to Lunch

This month we’re going to be visiting a few schools over lunch.  Check out our dates below and make sure you come meet us to hang out.  Even better, bring your friends, we’d love to meet them!

• Franklin M.S. – Friday, 2/17 – Pick up a pass before school and bring your lunch to Mr. Keys room with us.
• Pleasent Plains M.S. – Monday, 2/27 – We’re planning to hang out in the Cafeteria so find us there.
• S.C.S. – We’re around most days so we’ll pop in sometimes.  See you soon!

We’re planning on more dates this semester so check back for additional dates.  We’ll try to be there every few weeks.

WS101: Student Edition

Next Sunday, February 19th from 4:00-6:45PM we’re hosting our next West Side 101 class. It’s a class that our church offers every once in a while to help people better understand what baptism and membership are all about. It includes dinner together (free food is always good!) and it’s been a great class for everyone who has been a part of it in the past.

As a part of this event we offer a student only version of the class. If you’ve been thinking about making the decision to be baptized, or even if you don’t know much about baptism and want to know more, this is the perfect class for you. We’ll have dinner together and participate in the regular 101 class for a short period of time.  Then the students will split off to hang out and talk more about baptism and what it means for students.

If you’re interested in signing up you can register by sending an email to WS101@wschurch.org. Or, if you’ve got more questions, feel free to contact me at ChrisS@wschurch.org.

Ski Trip Recap

Just over 40 of us headed down to Hidden Valley Ski Resort this past weekend for an awesome trip.  It was fun to see some new faces and make some new friends.  Pictures are up now on Facebook so check them out and make sure you don’t miss it next year!

Enchanted Evening

Friday, February 3 our Men’s ministry will be hosting “An Enchanted Evening” for dads and their daughters from 6:00-8:00pm at LSCA. It’ll be a great chance for fathers and daughters of all ages to have a fun and memorable night together.  All dads with daughters ages 5 and older are invited to attend. We’ll have a catered meal and interactive activities for dads and daughters to share in. Cost is $20/family. Sign up at the table in the concourse or by contacting the church office at 793-2800.

Upward Concessions

The biggest trip for our High School ministry every year is the CIY MOVE Conference.  Each year our graduating 8th graders are invited to join the H.S. ministry on this great trip.  It’s the best way we know to help students meet new people and begin in a new ministry right so I highly encourage our graduating students to attend.

To help cover the cost of the trip, many students volunteer to work Upward Concessions and other volunteer roles on Friday evenings and Saturdays in February and March.  Funds raised are divided among the volunteers and it can be a great way to significantly reduce the cost of your trip.  Signups for volunteer time slots are now open.  They fill up quickly though so if you’re interested, contact Josh Ryder or signup this Sunday after 2nd or 3rd service.

Ski/Believe Deadline

Don’t forget to signup by the end of the day Wednesday for our two big spring trips:

• Ski Trip – January 21 – $75 – click to register or for more info
• Believe – Februay 17-18 – $110 – click to register or for more info

We can take some registrations later for Believe but our cost goes up ($120 after 1/11) and we can’t necessarily guarantee spots after that.  Get your spot reserved now to make sure you don’t miss our biggest trip of the year!

As always, if cost is keeping you from going, contact Chris and we’ll help find a way for you to go.

Believe 2012

That’s right. Believe is coming! On Friday, February 17 we head down to St. Louis for a weekend that could change your life. We’ll meet after school and drive down to the Family Arena where we’ll meet several thousand other Jr. High students for an awesome time of worship, teaching and fun! This is our tenth trip to Believe and every year we see students come back that Saturday evening excited and even more committed to Christ than ever before. Hopefully you’ll be able to join us this year!

If you want to come we need you to register and pay ($110) by Wendesday, January 11th for the early bird rate.  We’ll also need everyone to fill out the Believe Release Form and turn it in to the church office.

You can register and pay online. If you’re not able to pay online you can still register. Then bring a check to the church office and write “Believe” in the memo.

Registration is currently closed.  However, we may have space open up.  If you’d still like to sign up, contact Chris and let him know so we can try to get you in.

If you have additional questions you can ChrisS@wschurch.org and we’ll be happy to help!

Ski Trip 2012

Signups are now open for our annual Velocity Ski Trip to Hidden Valley (www.hiddenvalleyski.com) just outside of St. Louis. We’ll be heading down for a great day of skiing on Saturday, January 21 from 7:45am-8:00pm. It’s a great chance to invite friends so be sure you signup and pay your $75 by the deadline on January 11. The cost includes transportion, lift ticket and ski/snowboard rental. You can also pre-purchase ski lessons for $5 or snowboard lessons for $15.

You can now register for the trip online.

Mission ImPASTAble Update

It’s been a great week for our Mission ImPASTAble project. We collected over 700 items on Wednesday night to bring our total to 833 items collected!

Our last day to collect is tomorrow. We’ve got all the spaghetti noodles we need (we’ll donate any extra to local food pantries) but we still need 139 cans of spaghetti sauce by the end of the day tomorrow.

For those of you concerned with our competition between the boys and girls, both have brought the same number of noodles but the girls have an edge in terms of the number of cans of sauce. Neither has reached their goal though so it’s still anyone’s to win. Whoever has the most will get fun food before Velocity next Sunday (12/18) so make sure you bring some cans for one final push tomorrow!

Thanks for helping make this a great, and well fed, Christmas for all of our friends at Harvard Park!

V-Group Christmas Party

Don’t miss our end or year V-Group Christmas Parties on December 14 from 6:30-8:00PM. Even if you’ve never been to V-Groups before you can come and join in the fun. We’d love to have you!

Just make sure you bring some sort of goofy, weird, cheap or ridiculous white elephant gift to exchange. See you there!