Thursday, May 11, 2017

Nashville Meeting #1 - 5/10/17

The first half of our meeting was for parents and students.  We went over the key details for our trip and gave some vision for how our sm mission trips fit into the discipleship process here at the Chapel.  Below are the slides we went over if you'd like to review them:

Parent Meeting Slides

In addition, we handed out folders that had a checklist to make sure you know upcoming deadlines and dates, Chapel parental consent form, support letter writing information, a packing list, and some literature on CSM (the organization we partner with).  If you missed the meeting or lost any of the forms then just click on the links below.  The literature on CSM will be available next meeting to handout because we don't have an electronic version of it.

Checklist

Packing List

Support Letter Information

Parental Consent Form

The second half of the meeting was just for your kids as we began our study of the character Paul in Acts 9.  We study a character each year and look at the character's encounter with God as a model for our own encounters with God while on our trip to Nashville.  We have found that this has been a great way to prepare our hearts and minds for what will take place on this trip.  If you missed the meeting then you can read Acts 9:1-4 and review the questions below that we talked about in our small groups.

Small Group Questions

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Nicaragua Meeting #2 - 5/10/17

This was our first meeting together as a team where we had the opportunity to start building relationships among the team, getting to know the leaders, and studying our character Paul in Acts 9.  Every year we study a particular character's encounter with God as a model for how we will encounter God on our trip to Nicaragua.  We began by looking at the first four verse in Acts 9 where we just get a glimpse into Saul's encounter with God.  Saul was a highly religious person who thought he was actually doing God's will until this moment where God exposed his blind spot to the truth about Jesus.  After taking a look together at this passage our team broke up into two smaller groups where we started sharing with each other some of the things we are looking forward to on this trip and what gets in the way of us recognizing God's guiding hand in our own lives.

If your child missed the meeting then here are the questions we went over in our small groups if you would like to have them review them on their own and read Acts 9:1-4.


Also, below are the forms we handed out at the meeting.  The packing list is actually an updated version from the one we handed out last night because the links to the airline guidelines were incorrect.  They were the ones from last year and we are flying on a different airline this year.