I. Yahoos and Hooliyahs (announcements)
* There is a meeting with Kristin Sampson about the 1998 Budget from SGA on Thurs. At 7pm. Anyone wanting to attend feel free.II. Wild Tales of Lore and Certitude
*We ARE doing a Spring Break Trip this year. Details coming next week. Any ideas? Share them with mike or michelle.
*Scott volunteered to call Pete Berol about the conference dates.
*Ellie volunteered to remind Scott...
*Kwanza, new YACHT treasurer, reported that K-lee is on vacation and she will have solid budget info by next meeting.
*Letter sent around the room for TOM KURTZ.
*The Simple Way open house is Saturday, Feb 7th. All are welcome!
*Come help clean the Simple House this Saturday, or any day. The phone #: (215) 423-3598. There is also a small group leader meeting that afternoon.
*Shannon is taking people in on Saturday morning, and will be joined by Mike Elk’s and Danté’s youth group.n Meet 9am in Marriott.
*Volunteers for devotions: 2/2: Meg Williams; 2/9: Ellie; 2/16: Scott; 2/23: Mandy; 3/9: Kwanza; 3/16: Shannon; 3/23: Danna; 3/30: Darren
*Shane’s points-- Volunteers needed to get donations from Princeon sometime this week; The Simple Way needs a church contact for parking space for their Double- Decker Bus. Keep your eyes peeled!
*Food Bank trip, Wednesdays, 3-7pm. Meet at 3 in the gym parking lot. Contact Mandy or Darren if interested in going.
*Future book sales: Let’s start a committee and make this a campus wide event. Talk to Noah Macy, Janae Sauder, or Mike Brix with ideas.
* HELP!! YACHT NEEDS STORAGE SPACE ON CAMPUS!!
* "The House Bomb" (subtitled "How We Met Our Neighbors")III. Close in prayer by all.
*Michelle and Mike got engaged.
*Ellie spoke about Sheila
*Portia Williams, "new" attendant, shared some thoughts.
*Shannon shared about Saturday in the city and suggested a "homeless for a day" project.
*Rebekah Holonia talked about Bo and Peaches.
Amanda:
· Nursing Home Christmas Day in two weeks. We would like to have people
that can play instruments and sign. We would just like to have a lot of
people there to show them a good time. They will love to see you and it
will really mean a lot to them- more than you know.
Lydia:
She and Kristen took the food that they collected to city team. Ask her
about it.
Darren:
The food bank trips have been going well and he said that it was great to
see so many people and so many new people and that they are getting a lot
of stuff done. Soon they will be making Christmas boxes so please take part
in that.
Josh:
Planning a party for Sheila. More information next week. Think of ideas.
Mike:
WE NEED A TREASURER!! Maybe it is you!! think about it.
The thing on the Friday after thanksgiving. Let him know if you want to go
and want to catch a ride. Brooke will also be driving and whiling to pick
you up. She is coming from somewhere else that I forgot to write down- well
I wrote it down but my handwriting was so bad that I cannot tell what it
says. I think that it startes with a "d".
We will be having a spring break trip.
Brooke:
Remember to bring stuff from home. It is cold out there!!
Topics:
We talked about Hunger and Homeless Week and how we thought it went.
Overall we said great.
We also talked about the sleep out and shared what people had learned from
it.
SPECIAL GUEST…ETS!!!(empty the shelters)
(all video taped.)
-Kwanza opened with some information she found from her small group. It was
very interesting.
- ETS introduced.
- Talked about them, homelessness and poverty and how it effects the
people, and human rights and how you can get involved.
Y.A.C.H.T. Club Announcements November 3, 1997
YACHT (x1567) mikebrix (5388) michelle (5445)
Devotions
Amanda Van Deman talked about John 15
Announcements
by Denise- Church Outreach phone calls & SGA food drive **need drivers on November 19th;
Ellie- (for Kristen)- Hunger & homelessness Awareness Week **meeting Wednesday @8.30pm;
Brooke- next week will be an educational with ETS. bring friends;
Amanda- HHAW Thursday is International Day, 10-3pm
Zack, Debbie, Lydia will have displays. Anyone interested in participating to share stories?
Nursing Home- they're going Tuesdays, 4-6pm. and idea discussed for neighborhood outreach;
Korryn-
Angel Tree project w/ Mariluz, let's get presents for kids;
Rebekah- HHAW-Tuesday is "A Day In The Life Of..."
Paint your face and take a vow of silence for the day to represent unheard voices;
Michelle- bringing people to the play on
Friday, who's going?, check on Service Learning hours with her, Marriott is donating lunches again, so anyone who donated their ID #
can eat on Saturdays;
Mikebrix- Conference meeting after this one, T-Shirt contest items due Nov. 10th(T-shirts will be sold before we order them)
we still need blankets, sign up for the Messiah trip, Nov, 12th-13th;
Mandy- sign up with her for Food Bank trip on Wed's from 3-6.30pm,
they have had FUN!
Discussion
**Reactions to the forum
Stories from the Street
**Josh discussed outreach in the city on an individual basis, his experiences,
and some pointers
**Danté discussed their Saturday trip "AWESOME!"
**Mikebrix shared a few reality-check comics and closed.
Y.A.C.H.T. Club Announcements October 20, 1997
YACHT (x1567) mikebrix (5388) michelle (5445)
Upcoming Pretty Big Events:
** November 3rd (Monday) - Forum with Eastern Administration, a time for voicing questions and concerns. It is very important that we attend this as a group, YACHT shirts and all. A time will be posted.
** November 14th (Friday) - This is the last day for the SGA food drive. Please make this a priority. The Church Outreach people will be in charge of contacting local congregations, etc. See Debbie Landis, Denise Mellinger or Linda Hernandez to help.
Also… "Haunted By God" 8pm @ Germantown Friends School. This is a one-woman play about Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Info? See Michelle. (she’s going)
** Arthur Jackson Appreciation Day (date pending) - Hey it needs to be done. Any ideas? Let us know.
** Messiah College visit (date pending) -
** 1998 Annual Conference - We need to form a committee to start putting this together ASAP. Interested? Talk to Mike.
Other important Info:
** FOOD BANK - Wednesdays from 3-7pm. Sign up if you want to go by calling Mandy Foster x5366 or Darren Brown x5220. They need at least 5 people a week to go. BTW - This can count for community service hours.
** Nursing Home - Tuesdays from 5-7pm. They have been having a great time! Talk to Amanda Van Deman (x5258) Christyn Friel (x5203) or Heather Taylor(x5106) if you want to join them.
** Saturday lunch distribution - Yes. Every Saturday unless otherwise noted. 9am @ Marriott
** Angel Tree Project - Korryn Delmanto is working on this project, buying Christmas presents for kids. Talk to her if you wanna help. (x5283)
** T-shirt Design CONTEST!! - We need a new YACHT shirt design. Give it a shot. The only requirement is that it say YACHT (Youth Against…) somewhere.
** IT IS GETTING COLD!! -- Blankets, winter clothes, socks, hats, gloves. Donations are needed! Whatever you can get, from wherever.
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These are questions that we asked at the beginning of the meeting to be discussed in small groups:
1) Why did you join YACHT? 2) What are you most excited about? 3) What are you most concerned about? 4) What do you see your role as being when you face these issues?
* And the announcements...Brooke Singing
* Food bank on Saturday from 1-4, See Michelle about more details
* We made $350 at Homecoming
* Our good friend Tom Kurtz id requesting our help. He has been making P&J
for the hunger people where he is and he would like us to help him fund it-
we will talk more about that later
* The Messiah campus YACHT club is coming along- keep them in your prayers
as they do for us.
* Ali Lien visited and shared about the YACHT club that she has started in
NC- they have been going for three weeks- keep her in your prayers
Mike -
* If anyone has YACHT picture, give them to him or Michelle
* IF you are going to the conference there will be a meeting in the
McInnis Lobby at 3pm on Wednesday.
* Some people shared about the trip to philly on Saturday. - Kwanza said
that they took 71 lunches but they needed so much more and Lori also talked
about the day.
* The meetings are going to be in KEA from now on.
* The small group leaders meet after the meeting.
· -Michelle
· -give her your ID # so that Marriot will give us lunches to take in on
Saturday- we may lose Saturday lunch she will get back to us on that
· -we do go to the city every Saturday morning and this is NOT just for
service learning peeps
· -if you have your van license you need to get a rules and regs paper to
drive Yacht members
· -Small groups update
· -Heather spoke about the nursing home - they go on Tuesdays from 5-7. Meet
in the lobby of the New Dorm- if you would like to go, you will need to fill
out a very simple application form.
· -Darren spoke about the food bank. They are going some time this week and
can take as many people as would like to go, but they need at least 5.
· -Brooke spoke about the research group and said that she has stuff for you
to do- interesting stuff.,
· -Brook also said that she is going to a large rally protesting the death
penalty on the 18th- if anyone would like to go. It will be totally awesome
and there will be music. poetry, Jesse Jackson and much more. She will have
more info later.
-SEID update done by Shane
· -The church may be off, but they have other great ideas.
· -Thanked whoever for the "surprise" lunches.
· -new member of the SEID group.. Amie!
· -Mike said that we will be having a conference in feb like the one that we are going to this month. Be thinking and praying about it.
· -PAPA STUFF
· -the money breakdown….$2100 profit..10% to student activities, $447.06 to
Habitat for Humanity, $781.84 to SEID, $781.84 to YACHT club.. but that’s
not all!!! The Yacht grand total- t-shirt and everything = $1905.37
· -Scott and Mike meet with some guys about the whole thing and they said
that they will be having PAPA again next year and are thinking of making a
stage- whatever..
· -Mike said we need those good stuff buckets Jen reported that here are none in Gallup, They took the ones from Hainer, Scott and Lori Anderson are going to get them for the New Dorm, Sarah Davison will get them from Doane and Ellie Hoffman will get them from Kea.
· -Homecoming
· -Michelle said that we need people to sign up to work the table and
collect monetary donations.
· -Megan and Debbie are making a list of everything that we have and need to
sell at Homecoming.
· -Michelle said that she is taking people to the city on Saturday and she
will be back between 1-2pm so if you go you can still participate in
homecoming events.
· -Amie is working on the vans for the conference- things are going well.
-Mike said there will be a meeting for the people going to the conference
to tell them what to bring and what not to bring and all that good stuff.
· -Scott closed with prayer
Mike:
Look on the "Current" page, it has everything you need to knowSmall Groups:
It is the BIG DADDY of info.
New Jerusalem- Thursdays are a probibility. Josh and Amie are going this Thursday to preview. More info will be available next Monday. Possibly construction or other stuff. Talk to Josh @ *5256.
Church Outreach- There will be more information next Monday. Talk to Debbie @ *5258.
Civil Disobedience oops I mean Civil Education Awareness- This is an up and coming small group. What it involves is: research, going to town meetings, protesting, and making statements. This is V-I-T-A-L. It will research what effects people. You will be dealing with everthing from Welfare Reform to Section 8 housing cuts. Also Saturday mornings at a Free Market in Kensington. See Brooke for details.
Mike:
Wrote a letter to Dee McCarter asking for the left-over GoodStuff buckets.
Michelle read the letter to the YACHT club. Dee made verbal confirmation that
YACHT can have them. Everyone needs to round up the extras from their dorms.
The supplies will be going to PCH (802 Broad).
Shane:
Séid minute. Found the name "Together". They are going to meet with the
lawyer on Tuesday the 30th. Pray for the buying of a home (Germantown, or St
Ed's Church).
Get Rented Van Information for the Conference: Amie
Oct. 11th-Homecoming: Megan *5454, Debbie *5258
Reasearch facts for Pennsylvania Poverty and welfare:Heather *5160
New Secretary: Heather *5160
Need a form letter to food corps. for donations: Jenae *6242
Mailings for Séid: Madelyn *5454, Sara *5387, Kwanza *5368
Michelle:
Needs people for Food Bank on Oct. 18th from 1 to 4 PM.
(It's a Saturday)
Jeremy closed with prayer and Danté led a group for continued prayer outside.
