Seminary church is sending one child and two youth to camp - with with at least three other children and their families ready to make a commitment to the camping experience this year. Last year the church sent one youth. What a difference a year makes!
Proverbs 2:1-5 "My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding; if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures-then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God."
Huntington District cluster raise funds, awareness of camping
What do you do when you have a group of churches that historically have had very few kids attend camp each year? You get creative!
That's exactly what happened when three churches in the Huntington District (Faith Chapel, Pleasant Chapel and Roanoke Seminary UMCs - all part of a newly-formed cluster) recently worked together to produce a dinner theatre they called "Letters from Camp." The March 22 presentation at Seminary UMC drew 100 people and raised more than $800 for camp scholarships for the children and youth of the three churches.
In addition to hosting the event, Seminary UMC took lead in planning and preparing a traditional "camp supper," while other members of Seminary took responsibility for publicity, and others handled the audio-visual aspects of the program. Pleasant Chapel did clean-up, and also provided some of the youth actors for the program. Faith Chapel decorated the tables in keeping with various camp themes, while another Faith Chapel team designed, built and painted the set.
What do you do when you have a group of churches that historically have had very few kids attend camp each year? You get creative!
That's exactly what happened when three churches in the Huntington District (Faith Chapel, Pleasant Chapel and Roanoke Seminary UMCs - all part of a newly-formed cluster) recently worked together to produce a dinner theatre they called "Letters from Camp." The March 22 presentation at Seminary UMC drew 100 people and raised more than $800 for camp scholarships for the children and youth of the three churches.
In addition to hosting the event, Seminary UMC took lead in planning and preparing a traditional "camp supper," while other members of Seminary took responsibility for publicity, and others handled the audio-visual aspects of the program. Pleasant Chapel did clean-up, and also provided some of the youth actors for the program. Faith Chapel decorated the tables in keeping with various camp themes, while another Faith Chapel team designed, built and painted the set.
This comment was from Cheryl Britt on Thursday.
ReplyDelete"What an awesome congregation we have at Seminary United Methodist Church. I want to thank all of you that brought in Teddy Bears for the blessing of the bears. I know we are going to be in need of plenty of Teddy Bears as I have been n contact with the police departments in the area and they may need some teddy hears from our "Hug A Bear" ministry to give to children who are victims, they have plenty right now but, they are sure glad to know where they can come if they need any. What a great way for us to reach out to our community. Keep the Teddy Bears coming
Thank-You all and God Bless each and every one of you."