Happy New Year! We are starting off our first Ruth Circle meeting of 2011 in a big way! This meeting will be our turn at hosting the UMW unit meeting, and we'll be welcoming Jill Savage as our speaker. I highly encourage you to spread the word and invite any friends to the meeting. The meeting is next Monday, January 17th, at 7pm in the church lounge. I'm looking for volunteers...
Setup: we'll need some extra hands available before the meeting (around 6:20pm) to help setup/decorate.
Refreshments: I don't have any specific ideas, but I tend to like just doing "finger foods". So something sweet (cookies, cupcakes, or brownies...around 6 dozen?), a cheese and crackers tray (or cheese dip), and fruit and/or veggies should cover it. Coffee, lemonade, water. Also we'll need paper products (plates, napkins, cups).
Decorations: I really don't have any brilliant ideas on this. Jill's theme is "Real Moms, Real Jesus", so I thought maybe we could bring framed photos of you with your moms/as a mom/multi-generational mom photos. If anyone has any additional ideas, I'm all ears!
Devotional Reader: We need someone to volunteer to read a short devotion, followed by a prayer to close the meeting. The devotion doesn't need to be lengthy at all (1-2 minutes), and you can pick out whatever you'd like to read. Devotions can be found online, upperroom.org, or in magazines in the UMW reading section at church. Depending on how much time is left at the end of the meeting, we could then pass around our prayer request bowl, or if it's getting late, just wrap up with a short prayer.
Donations: Jill doesn't charge a fee for speaking, but does accept an honorarium. If everyone could bring $2, we'd have something to give her for her time and effort, and to let her know how much we appreciate her.
Childcare: Since I'm hoping this meeting is going to attract young women outside of our group, I'm going to arrange to have childcare available. This does, however, worry me a bit, since I don't really know if it will be needed (and I feel really bad about having childcare workers come out and then have to turn around and go home). So if anyone knows they will be using childcare, please let me know.
I think that's everything. Please comment to this post to sign up for refreshments, help, devotional reader, etc.
Hope to see you next Monday, and please let me know if you have any questions!
Janet
6 comments:
I can bring the paper products and do not need child care. I'm really looking forward to hearing Jill!
Tori is bringing 6 dozen cookies! Thanks!!!
I can bring a chip and dip snack and a thing of lemonade. Also Janet if you want to bring your hot water thing, I can bring tea bags for hot tea. I can also come early that night to help set up. Anything else I cna do just let me know. I am excited for that night!
Michelle
Thanks Michelle. Good idea on the hot tea...i'll bring my pump pot.
I can bring hummus, pita chips, celery, and carrots. Should be a fun night!
julie
I can bring some cheese cuts and crackers. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help!
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