This Friday Night

Hey everybody, hope you had a great Thanksgiving Break full of great food, good times with loved ones, and some much needed rest.

This Friday night you will have another opportunity for some great food, good times with good friends, and a kind of rest, although not the sleep I had in mind above. This Friday night we are going out to eat at Cracker Barrel and then coming back to the campus house to play some games.

Please meet at the campus house at 5:15pm so we can carpool over together. If you are driving, please come to the campus house first so you can offer a ride to somebody who doesn't have a car. (Don't just drive on over and meet us there.)

Afterward we'll head back to the campus house to play some games, and maybe even have a little dessert. If you are in the mood to bake, feel free to bring a dessert to share. If not, don't worry about it. We'll have something.

We have a plethora of games to choose from, but if you have some game you would like to play, feel free to bring it with you. There will probably be several people who would be interested in playing it with you. It could be a box game (like Taboo or Pictionary), or maybe a board game, video game, or even just a card game you could teach us.

So grab a friend and come join us 5:15pm Friday night at the campus house.

Also, I wanted to give you a heads up that we are going to have a Christmas Party next Friday, Dec. 7, at 7:30pm at the campus house. It's actually going to be kind of a big deal. I mean we have quite a few really fun things planned for this party, so I really hope you can make this event. One of the things we have planned is a "White Elephant" gift exchange. I'll send another email next week with more details on this, but basically it's where you bring a wrapped gift, and in the process of kind of like playing this fun little game, everyone ends up with one of the gifts someone else brought. Hard to explain briefly, but a LOT of fun! We are setting a $5 limit on the value of the gifts you bring, so if you want to get a head start on shopping for a gift to bring to the party, there you go. Just try to think of something that costs less than $5 that most college students would enjoy getting. We also have some other games planned, and of course we'll have some yummy Christmas desserts, Christmas music, etc., so it's going to be a lot of fun. So be sure to mark your calendar and save the date.

Hope to see you THIS Friday at 5:15pm at the campus house.
Steve

Thanksgiving Banquet

It's hard to believe, but our last weekend together before Thanksgiving Break is this weekend, already. We wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving together with a Thanksgiving Banquet, and since this is our last weekend before break, we're going to have the banquet this Friday night. We'll start at 6pm and it will be at the campus house.

We'll have turkey, of course, with stuffing, potatoes and gravy, spoonbread, biscuits, green beans, corn, roasted carrots, sweet potato casserole, mac 'n cheese, cranberry sauce or cranberry relish, Jello salad, pumpkin or sweet potato pie, apple pie, and more!

Besides enjoying a delicious meal together, we'll take a little time to praise God by sharing with each other what we are most thankful to God for this past year. Afterward, we may watch a movie or play some games, or maybe both.

This is an old CCVT tradition and it's always so much fun to share a big, traditional Thanksgiving dinner together, and the food is always delicious! So don't miss out. Make plans to come join us.

6pm, Friday, Nov. 9 at the campus house.

Looking forward to giving thanks to God with you,
Steve