Effective Leaders, Faithful Disciples, Vital Congregations
Effective Leaders, Faithful Disciples, Vital Congregations
We are very excited that this year we are moving our show to Broadbent Arena at the Kentucky State Fair & Expo Center. This will have twice as much seating as in the past - and give us arena style seating. It is going to be awesome!
Please help us in making our main session worship time more sacred by asking and students to please turn off cell phones, and to refrain from unnecessary movement to concessions and other venues (restrooms) during our speaker. These are some of the main complaints that we receive each year.
Group leaders are responsible for all actions of their groups. We will have several young adults from our UM Colleges and Wesley Foundations to help us "enforce" curfew and other appropriate behaviors. Please make the weekend one to remember for all the right reasons.
Remember that you represent much more than yourselves as you visit Louisville. Please do everything you can to convey the "light of God" evident in your life at all times.
A very special place through the Winter Blitz weekend is the Prayer Room. This place is reserved for those seeking to share or receive special prayers. Stop by as a group or individual and share some of your prayers on the Winter Blitz "prayer wall." The prayer room is open for one hour before and half an hour after each of the main sessions.
Again this year we will have an activity room in the rear of the main auditrium to meet and greet some of our United Methodist College and Wesley Foundation students and leaders. Come by anytime one hour before or during free time to play corn-hole, guitar hero, or just hang out. While there you can find more information about all the wonderful opportunities we have at our 10 campus ministries throughout Kentucky.
On Saturday evening we will be receiving an offering for our Youth Service Fund to support Imagine No Malaria (www.imaginenomalaria.org), Honduras Outreach Inc (www.hoi.org), and our Kentucky Conference Camps (www.kycamps.org). Last year, we raised over $6,800. Let's be prepared to give generously to help these great causes.
For all you early birds out there ...come down to the ballroom in the Crown Plaza and join us for some awesome times of young people sharing their stories connected to God's story. These 20 minute morning worship times are just the thing to get your morning started right. Worship music is led each morning by Sarah May McGinnis.
Submit your group video advertising Winter Blitz, your youth group, or anything else that you think might be fun to see on the big screen. We will play a couple of videos before each session with winning videos getting a freebie. DETAILS: Videos should be less than 3 minutes. MGEG is preferable format for mail-ins. You can also post on YouTube and send me the link. Submissions can be mailed to: Ministry with Young People, Video Contest, 7400 Floydsburg Road, Crestwood, KY 40014. All Submissions need to be made by January 21st to be considered. Videos will be posted online at www.youtube.com/kyumcyouth for future publicity.
Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.
