Week of January 5th
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!
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!
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
January 5- Cross Training and ACTS make pancakes for Kids BLAST Epiphany Breakfast.
Parenting with Faith Forum
Sunday, January 12, 2025
12:00-1:30pm
Fellowship Hall - Lunch Provided
Facilitated by Carolyn Karl, a parent and former attorney who for over 20 years has also worked with youth and families…with a recent focus on intergenerational connections. Carolyn serves as Director of Programing of the Wellness Compass and facilitates Teen, Adult, and Parent Spiritual & Wellness Circles.
Do you struggle keeping your New Year’s resolution beyond 2 weeks, 1 month or beyond February? You know you want to be a better parent, partner, friend… but life’s business, daily responsibilities, stresses and emotional ups and downs make you feel over-whelmed, isolated and even alone.
Come to this event to learn how to sustain your “be a better person” New Year’s resolution for a life time…while developing toward wholeness. Carolyn will explore ways for us to share our frustrations, joys and concerns with other parents who understand; and to challenge us to be more intentional parents & care providers who will ultimately be more resilient, stronger, happier, healthier and more confident about life’s next steps.
NOTE: This event is open to all parents, grandparents, care-givers of children and all who are interested.
Contact: Anne Farebrother, anne@atonementmuskego.org or
Deacon Doug, 414-531-7014 doug@atonementmuskego.org or
Kara Mendez, 414-422-0400 kara@atonementmuskego.org for more information
We have several students in our Youth program who are in the Muskego High School musical Mamma Mia! Buy your tickets TODAY!
Getting Ready for Fort!
On December 22, Deacon Doug walked ACTS and CrossTraining through some curriculum he developed to bring the Good Samaritan story to life and provide us with some things to think about during our sessions at Fort Wilderness as well as when we reconvene in our classes next year. As you might have heard, we currently have xx students and xx leaders signed up for our winter retreat at Fort Wilderness January 9-12. Thanks, Deacon Doug, and thanks to the congregation for your support in making this retreat possible.
And, a quick reminder: on January 5, ACTS and CrossTraining will once again be making the pancake breakfast for Kids Blast- plan to arrive around (8:30am??) to help set up, make pancakes, serve, and cleanup. Thanks in advance!
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)