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It's just about time to turn the calendar over to a new liturgical year in the Christian church. For many of us, Advent also means mid-week services and yummy potlucks. (Lenten soup suppers are always so reserved by comparison.) Instead of using blank white place-mats, this year, start families into using Family Table Devotions. I'm going to print them out onto 11x17 paper and put a few of them on each table. If you don't have a printer/copier that can do that, print them on letter sized paper and leave a few on each table.

Family Table Devotions are one of the many resources available from the North Carolina Synod, through the work of their most excellent Youth and Family Ministry Coordinator, Tammy Jones West. If the devotions don't work for you, they also have Table Talk sheets available, with a series of questions designed to spur conversation around the table. While you're on the North Carolina Synod Youth & Family Ministry website, be sure and poke around the links in the left hand column. There are a number of great resources available.

I hope to see some of you this weekend at CSLYOPs. There may not be new post next week, since I'll be gathered with many of our young church leaders and the adults who work with them.

Pastor Andy Arnold
ELCA Youth Ministry Network Tech Geek

P.S. - If you're in need of some encouragement about what our church is called to be, check out Tammy's report at her synod assembly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l1PzU8CA_Y