Welcome Back Wesley SNP
Small Groups Spotlight
Wesley Spring Retreat
Share Your Life With David
Living at Wesley Next Year
A Different School Experience
MFSA Annual Retreat
Opposed to the Death Penalty?
Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Program
Buzz Kill Tees
Pray for…
The Spiritual ABC’s
This Week at Wesley (January 20-27)
Sunday, 5:00 p.m. - Service of Evening Prayer, Worship, and Dinner ($2 donation) - NOTE NEW SCHEDULE!
Following dinner (6:45-ish), Small Groups and Holy Communion group meet to organize and select meeting days and times
Tuesday, 12 Noon - Faculty/Staff/Grad Student Bible Study on Mark; lunch provided
Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. - David at Listening Post in the UC Lobby
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - Nothing But Nets meeting at Wesley
Friday, David's day off
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. - YAC Spring Planning Retreat; all are welcome!
Next Sunday, 5:00 p.m. - Meet at Wesley for Social Event/Fun Adventure; dinner ($2 donation) follows
DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR SPRING RETREAT (Feb. 1-2, $10)
Welcome Back, Wesley! We're Praising God and Changin' It Up
Service of Evening Prayer and Holy Communion
5:00 p.m.
Dinner follows (new weekly SNP Schedule)
There is no more appropriate way for us to come together as the Body of Christ than with worship this Sunday, including the Lord's Supper. We'll use a service perhaps unfamiliar, but ancient - a service of Evening Prayer. It is a very simple format for worship - singing, prayer, scripture, and ample silence. We'll add Holy Communion to the service, too (rumor has it we will have Hawaiian bread), and afterwards we will eat supper and have time to catch up on one another's lives. YAC has taken your input seriously and the vast majority of respondents to our opinionaire preferred having our program followed by the meal, so thanks for letting your voices be heard. Please join us, and bring a friend!
Small Groups - An Important Way to Grow in Your Faith
Christians grow best with others, so Wesley provides several ways for you to deepen your relationship with Christ and with sisters and brothers walking the Way of Christ. This Sunday you can meet briefly with others who want to be a part of a small group to select a meeting day and time. For details on the small group options, click on "find out more about Wesley" and check out the newly updated "activities" page
Wesley Spring Retreat Feb 1-2: WILDERNESS
Do you think of Lent as a time where you give something up just because that's what you're told to do? What are the whole 40 days before Easter really about?
If you want to prepare yourself for the season of Lent through fellowship, Bible Study, and worship...plan on attending this year's Spring Retreat. We'll leave around 6pm on Friday Feb 1st and return to campus on Saturday afternoon. Expect good food, great company, lots of chances to encounter Christ, and a ferry dance party! Wesley will also be providing a small group devoted to the Lenten journey in the weeks following the retreat.
Contact Laura Shoop with questions and sign up on the Wesley clipboard (cost: $10--covers a night's lodging and 3 meals)
Share Your Life with David in Ways Old and New
As usual you can sign up at Wesley (or email David) for "Walk, Talk, Eat, Drink" and meet with David for a meal, coffee, or a walk on DOG Street.
In addition, you can “Take David to Class” by simply signing up at Wesley (or emailing him) to invite him to attend a class with you and then get coffee to talk about the class, life, whatever. He promises to stay awake and pay attention.
Think About Living at Wesley Next Year
Talk to Alice, Katherine, Shannon, Aaron, Evelyn or Jenn, and they will tell you what an awesome experience it is to live at Wesley and to live in Christian community. Basic information and application materials are available on the desk in the Wesley living room. In addition to the written app, there is an oral interview. All is completed before the deadline for submitting deposits for living on campus. Next Sunday, the House Residents will be cooking dinner and showing off the house - including their rooms. Questions? Talk to them, David or Mike Oliver (our Administrative Assistant)
A Different School Experience
Peninsula District Mini-School of Mission
Topics: Israel/Palestine; Globalization: Its Impact on Our Lives; OR Music and Mission
Saturday, Feb. 9, 8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon
Chestnut Memorial UMC, Newport News
What a great opportunity to practice loving God with your mind - with no grades or tests, or tuition payments! Awesome! David is going so let him know if you want to attend and catch a ride!
You're Invited to the MFSA (Methodist Federation for Social Action) Annual Retreat
"Peace in Jerusalem? Our Part in Building Peace in Jerusalem, Israel and Palestine"
Feb. 22-23
Roslyn Retreat Center, Richmond
Cost: $90 (Wesley will pay $70 of this)
The retreat will be led by Jim Vitarello and Miles Kimber of "Sharing Jerusalem," an organization dedicated to working with mainline churches in support of a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict which includes a shared Jerusalem. In addition to being informed about the history and current status of the conflict, participants will learn positive actions that local churches and individuals can take to foster peace.
Want to go? David has the registration form, so see him ASAP!
Opposed to the Death Penalty? Here's a Way to Act on Your Faith!
You are invited to an E-Mail Group, "Virginia United Methodists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty," that has been developed as a follow-up to a Vigil against the death penalty held during the Virginia Annual Conference in 2007. This E-Mail Group consists of United Methodists in the Virginia Conference who support their Church's opposition to the death penalty, wish to advocate for alternative forms of punishment, and seek to educate others about this issue.
Becoming a part of this group provides an easy way to learn more about the death penalty, communicate easily with others who have similar concerns, and receive updates and action alerts on death penalty issues.
This is a low-traffic site, limited to postings related to death penalty concerns.
Interested persons are invited to join this group by replying to < vum4adp@googlegroups.com >, with "include me" as your message.
Should anyone joining the Group later wish to withdraw, that can be easily done by sending the message "unsubscribe" to < vum4adp@googlegroups.com>.
Hear the Witness of a Civil Rights Era Legend
The Office of Multicultural Affairs will sponsor the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Program on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 7:00 pm in the University Center, Commonwealth Auditorium. Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams, former chairperson of the NAACP and the widow of Medgar Evers, will speak on Tomorrow’s Leaders: Their Voices, Our Journey. Please come out and celebrate the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, the movie The Ghosts of Mississippi that chronicles the work of Ms. Evers-Williams’ fight for the injustices surrounding her husband’s assassination will be shown on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8:00 pm in Commonwealth Auditorium. The lecture and movie are free and open to the public.
Film "For the Bible Tells Me So" Coming to Richmond
Sunday, January 27
2 p.m., Historic Byrd Theatre
$2 admission
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Parents of 5 families speak up for their gay children, including former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and his wife, and the parents of gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson. "Offering healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity, this film 'boldly takes a loaded topic and examines it intellectually and emotionally'" (Seattle Times)
Want to go? Contact David dmhind@wm.edu
Tee Shirts! Get Your Tee Shirts!
Nothing But Nets "Buzz Kill" Tees
$20 ($10 for tee, $10 to buy a mosquito net and save a life - good deal!)
The W&M Nothing But Nets Campaign is kicking back into gear and you want to get involved right away. The goal is to raise $75,000 by May (that's one $10 mosquito net for every W&M student). Lots of activities are planned, but the culminating one will be Blowout Malaria on the last day of classes, when we hope thousands of students will wear Buzz Kill tees for a gi-normous group photo either at Wren or at Zable. Order your tee now, wear it with pride, and help us spread the word! Order yours at Wesley or give David your tee size via email (S, M, L, XL, XXL) at dmhind@wm.edu
