Week of December 22nd
Tell me more about Fort Wilderness(Cross Trainers)
We have been going to FW for SEVERAL years. It is a Christian camp in Rhinelander. The Winter Retreat offers sledding (down a HUGE hill), ice-skating, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, broom ball (think hockey with just your boots on and instead of hockey sticks they are brooms!), the chair of death (which is actually a lot of fun, they made me go in it a few years ago), AWESOME food, lots and lots of fun!!
We will do a devotion in the mornings and at night and the rest of the time campers are allowed to explore the grounds. (There’s also a coffee shop and canteen to purchase treats.) The rest of the “fun” things are included when you sign up.
Tell me more about Fort Wilderness! (ACTS)
Students in ACTS go to Fort to serve and have some fun doing it! There are many jobs that need to be filled during the weekend. You may get the opportunity to:
Serve in the Canteen/Gift Shop-making popcorn, making shakes, working the register, etc.
Serve at CampGrounds-the on-site coffee shop
Serve in Accommodations-Wiping tables after meals, vacuuming, moping floors, etc.
Stable Volunteer-Tending to horses, cleaning stalls, helping people go on horse rides
Broom Ball Volunteer-Helping to make sure everyone has a helmet and is playing fair
Equipment Handout-Handing out ice skates, cross country skis and boots, etc to campers
Kitchen Crew-Washing Dishes
Kitchen Prep-Prepping food for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
You may also visit the FW website!
https://fortwilderness.com/camp/church-youth-group/
Students can also bring friends!
Please let me know if you have any other questions!
kara@atonementmuskego.org
Please sign-up below if you are interested!
Epiphany Pancake Breakfast
January 5th
Welcome Back from Christmas Break Celebration
ACTS and Cross+Training students
will help out Kids BLAST students
by making and serving them pancakes and sausage!
This will be during our 9:30 class.
CT and ACTS students please arrive at 8:30am to start making pancakes and sausage!
A message from Mike Ganrud:
The Cross Training and ACTS groups got together the Saturday before Thanksgiving to bake pies and a special type of cookie under the watchful eyes and tutelage of Madame Holden (they were also very fortunate to use equipment provided by Madame and Val Hense, and were very thankful for a Thrivent Action Team grant to help offset the costs). We appreciated the congregation's support of the effort, as all had fun working together for a couple of great causes- youth trips, and Church In Society's Coat Drive. The youth chose to donate $155 of the amount raised to the Coat Drive, with the remaining funds being dedicated to helping support youth trips such as Fort Wilderness and our summer service trip. Speaking of that summer service trip.... if we said Colorado, would you want more info? Stay tuned.... :-)
Coming up in Cross+Training
December 22- Christmas party! Cross Training is invited to join Kids BLAST for Ice Cream Sundaes.
December 29- No class
January 5- Cross Training and ACTS make pancakes for Kids BLAST Epiphany Breakfast.
We have several students in our Youth program who are in the Muskego High School musical Mamma Mia! Buy your tickets TODAY!
Open Door Cafe Serve Opportunity
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving the youth volunteered at Open Door Cafe at St. John the Evangelist in downtown Milwaukee. This organization serves lunch daily to the homeless and are the only free lunch program in the city.
Atonement had 24 volunteers that made sandwiches, assembled various items for take-out lunches to hand out and served a hot meal with coffee, milk and dessert.
This organization is always in need of volunteers so please consider donating your time.
Registration now open for 2024-25 Cross+Training and ACTS Classes!
Kick-Off-First day of classes will be September 8th!
NEW Church Management Program-REALM
You should have received an email invitation to join our new church directory and management program, Realm. This email is coming through Realm. If you can’t find your email invitation, you can also sign up here. Realm is going to be our one-stop shop for Atonement info--join today and get the Realm app, too (Click here for iOS and click here for Android)