MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hi guys

Merry Christmas to all of you, hopefully you are all having a great Christmas surrounded by all of your loved ones :) We had a wonderful Christmas, my entire family was over at our house, it was fun and I especially enjoyed watching Noah open up his first Christmas presents :)

Me and Marja are going to be out of town this weekend, so we won't be organizing any youth night. We will pick up in the New Year, I hope that you all have a blessed holidays and New Years.
God bless all of you

-Mononens-

Youthlings

Hi

How's everyone doing? Hopefully you have all gotten into the Christmas spirit and are enjoying yourselves. I want to thank all of you guys for participating in the Christmas play, i've heard a lot of positive comments on it, so congrats :)
Now, we won't be meeting this week. Its a bit to close to Christmas and since all of the other meetings at the Church have been cancelled, I figure that we might as well have the week off also.
So thats about it for now. I'm not sure what you guys are planning for New Years,but i'm gonna spend my New Years this year with Marja and Noah. I think though that throwing out some ideas for what you guys are doing or want to do would make for some interesting discussion for the next week.

God bless all of you and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

-Miika , Marja and Noah-
ps. Hopefully all of you can use some of your freetime during the holidays to focus and dwell on the birth of our saviour, and to really understand the significance of His coming...

Hark How the Bells!

Sweet Christmas Bells!! :D :D :D
The time of the Christmas play is approaching!! Are you ready?!?
So this Friday at 7:30 we're going to be doing a dress rehearsal of our play that we've worked so hard on memorizing and getting together!
So bring all the "costume" ideas you can with you, or what you would think a typical high schooler would wear- guys maybe some of you can bring jerseys or dress totally gangsta or something.. girls maybe co-ordinate costumes for when you're collecting the food drive stuff (nina, ruth, and danica).... And yeah! Costumes are pretty simple, but try to bring something super fun. :D
We'll go over the play a couple of times and then help decorate the church for the Christmas concert/play night on Sunday.
So again, Friday night.... THIS friday night. at the church at 7:30 pm!
Bring: costumes, and your good energy.
Remember: to memorize your lines! I'm (liisa) expecting this to be done since you've had the scripts for at least 3-4 weeks already.
You guys are great, we're excited to see you soon!
God Bless,
the Karjanlahti's

Christmas dinner

Hey youth

So we have changed the date of the annual Christmas dinner. I came to the realization this weekend that we had a total of 5 tickets sold for the 15th banquet. Now I asked you guys last week to let me know if you had sold any tickets. I believe that Jenni and Liisa were the only ones to post over whether they had sold any tickets. So please make an effort to let me know ASAP.
So I need the following info from you guys

1. How many tickets your family will need?
2. Will you be able to come and help prepare, serve and clean-up for the banquet? Basically the ball is in your guys court. I will do my part, but basically if this banquet will happen this year, It will be because of a bunch of you guys gettin up and helping make it happen...

God bless and please respond with your info

-Miika-

Homework

Hey guys

I'm gonna have a rather lengthy and event-filled post here, so concentrate :)

1. Next week, we are at the Koivumakis for our Christmas secret-stealing-santa-lindtlosing party. We are gonna try to make it for 7:00 p.m and if you want to bring something to snack on, please do. (its not mandatory to bring a gift, but if you want one, then bring one ) 5-10$ value.
2. Our Christmas dinner fundraiser is coming up again. I have a request for you guys. Since this event is solely for YOU, and since YOU are your parents child, could you ask your mom (or dad) if they could make some kind of Finnish laatikos (Carrot or Rutabaga). Now I know that everyone is busy and such, but this fundraiser can only work if YOU are involved fully. So please bring up the issue with your family and let me know ASAP (this week).
3. I forgot to ask you guys about your parents and loved ones who are planning on comin to our event. Please find out who is coming and how many tickets are needed. The price is higher this year, but the money is going to us for YouthRally 2008. DON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER :)
4. Our Christmas play looked pretty good already last week,and i'm looking forward to seein it with all the props and such. I'm gonna make the lockers and a sign this week for it. We didnt discuss the Sun and Moon thing to much, but i'll make those also :)
So yeah, there is all the info for the week. Please get back to me with the Laatiko info. I figure that since our youth are the only ones to benefit from the fundraiser, it should be our youth's familys who are the most helpful and supportive :)
God bless and see you guys Friday

-Miika-