Return on Sunday:

We plan to return sometime around 2:30-3:00pm on Sunday.  We will update parents via email with the exact time once we leave Waco and head toward College Station. 

 

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Here is the plan for luggage:

Students are welcome to bring their luggage to the church building anytime on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.  You can put it in the church building or in the youth trailer.  (Text us if you do not know the the combo to the locks.  And if you come at a time when the trailer is not in the parking lot, you can put luggage in the office hallway outside of Monty's office.  He will look at the luggage and whose name is on the luggage and then decide if he likes you enough to carry your luggage to the trailer for you.  Ha.  Hahaha.  How could that even be possible?  Monty likes everyone.  He thinks everyone is awesome.  So of course he will carry your luggage to the trailer for your.  Hey-he'd even carry it all the way to Arlington for you if he knew you needed it.  (But it would take a few days, because walking to Arlington can take a while.) )

 

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Things to bring:

• Clothing for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Dress/church clothes are not needed for Sunday.

• Clothes/pajamas to sleep in on Friday and Saturday

• Toiletries including soap and shampoo

• Towel and washcloth

• Shower shoes or flip flops

• Sleeping bag and pillow.  We will be sleeping
  at a church, so it’s best to bring more than a
  sheet and a pillow.  You’re welcome to bring
  a small foam mattress or cot or blow up
  mattress if you want.

• Money for two fast-food meals

• Cards, games, etc. For the bus ride to/from
  Winterfest.

• A coat

• A camera (we will not have much access to
  phones on this trip)

• A flashlight (if u wake up in the middle of the night and need to find the restroom)

• An open and humble heart

• A good attitude

 

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Do not bring the following:

• Earbuds/earphones, tablets, portable gaming system or any other kind of electronics except for a camera.

• Anything intended to play a joke on anyone or anything illegal.

• Anything you should not have, including any kind of tobacco, vaping or alcohol products

• A bad attitude

• Turtle shells

• Porcupine quills

• Alligator teeth or feet

 

 

Cell phone information:

Sometime on Friday, we will have envelopes for students to put their phones in.  If you need your phone at any time to call your parents, you are welcome to use it.  Otherwise, we’ll keep the phones put away for the weekend.  As always, your parents can get in touch with you by calling Monty or Heather’s phone…and you are welcome to use Monty or Heather’s phone at any time to call them.  We are not trying to keep you from talking to your parents, but we are trying to help all of us to be “present” with the people around us and not on social media or other apps throughout the weekend.  Also – in addition to the info above – please do not bring a second phone so that you have one to turn in and one to keep with you. 

 

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A few things worthy of noting:

• Except for two fast-food meals, all of your meals are furnished during Winterfest.
   

• There are usually a few things for sale at Winterfest.  If you’d like to bring money for this, please feel free to do so. 
   

• You’re welcome to bring snacks (but the bus stays CLEAN.  Very CLEAN.)

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• Anything you bring from school (backpack, tuba, etc.) can be put in the bus/trailer with us on Friday.  Your homework will not be done for you before you get your backpack again on Sunday, but you are welcome to do homework in the bus or during our break on Saturday.
   

• There are a lot of different groups who come to Winterfest, and our group will stay together throughout the weekend. At all times during the Winterfest conference, we will sit together as a group.  If you have friends from other churches, they are more than welcome to sit with our group. 
   

• The other day I got to go to an origami workshop.  There were some famous people there.  One of the guys at the table next to me was Dwayne Johnson.  After we had been there around 30 minutes, I needed something to cut a piece of paper.  So I borrowed Dwayne's.  Then, unfortunately I lost them.  Turns out, I lost the Rock's Paper Scissors. 
   

• If you have any food allergies we do not already know of, please let us know.
   

• If you normally drive a vehicle to school, you may want to arrange a carpool or be dropped off on Friday so your vehicle does not stay at school all weekend.  Again, you’re welcome to meet us at the church at 3:25 if you get out of school early. 

 

 

 

Okay, that’s a lot of info.  If you read all of this and have a question, let us know.  Again, we are so glad you are going to Winterfest.  We’re excited about what God is going to do in each of us throughout the weekend.  We ask for your prayers before, during, and after this trip.

 

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Here is a list (as best as we currently know it) of when and where students are meeting the group. If the info below is not correct, please let us know.  (And if you do not see your name below, let us know.)

 

Meeting at church at 3:25 –

Camden

Jadyn

Gates

Ramsey

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Meeting at Consol at 3:50 -

Anni

Cal

Emelyn

Evelyn

Foster

Jack

Patti

Sterling

Ty

Zach

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Meeting at CSHS at 3:50 –

Andrew

Armani

Ashlyn

Beck

Ford

Gage

Jack

James

Julian

Luke

Parker

Vivian

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Meeting at Target in Bryan at 4:25 –

Alex

Allen

Alli

Brady

Charlie

Eli

Henry

Isabel

Jake

Kambrie

Katherine

Katy

Piper

Sofia

Virginia

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Adults for this trip -

Monty & Heather

Sarah F

Lisa H

Michelle K

Brandon T

Thad A

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