Friday, January 2, 2009

Greetings

Hi everybody,

This blog is set up so we can share information between us. We are trying to organize a reunion.
Everything is up in the air so we want to know your thoughts. Would you be interested in attending it?

Because some of us have children in school, we were thinking about having it in the summer of '09. We were also thinking that the good ole Wheaton, Illinois should be the place.
Another thought was to have 2 separate reunions. One for the 80's Youth Group on one night and all other members the next night.

Whatever we choose, we will be cost effective. A thought for the Youth night may be to go to a place we used to hangout at regularly-like the Seven Drawfs restuarant on Roosevelt Road or Denny's on Schmale.

For the main reunion, we were thinking of a family picnic/potluck in somebody's backyard or a local park. Someone recently suggested Blackwell Forest Preserve or Herrick Lake. Another person suggested the old church.

We are looking at the weekend of July 17th...

What do you think? We want to hear from you. Please post here or email WheatonAofG@gmail.com.

7 comments:

judy said...

Hey guys...count me in!

Tim Roeske said...

How does the weekend of July 17th/18th sound?

Anonymous said...

I can't wait to see you all in July. Being in Wheaton Back in the late 70's and early 80's was a time on my life i will never forget.

Duane Swanson said...

I am anxious to see everybody in July. I hope you will be there too.

Cal and KellyThompson said...

Hi everyone from Fargo ND
We are excited to see this blog happening and especially the idea of a reunion in the summer sometime.
We are doing well here and still have a passion for Youth Ministry.
Thanks to Tim and Sandie for putting together this idea for connecting.
We are planning to be in Chicago again this summer a couple times. The first is a missions trip we lead from this area. Over the last several years we have had over 1,500 go with us to the City Church in Chicago... in some ways we kept Chicago outreach going. (My heart I guess has never left wanting to be a part of the Chicago area)
A July reunion sounds great and we will do whatever we can to come.
Just an update on our family... Tanya is now 24 , married to a Nuclear Engineer and living in Seattle ; Brittany is 22 and getting married in March.
Wow... we are getting hold but still plan to Youth Pastor till I retire?!?!
I love this blog stuff, so lets keep it going.

Cal and KellyThompson said...

Hi everyone.
We are excited to have this connect with all of you again.
Wow... it has been 18 plus years since we left Wheaton but still the memories are large.
Have a picture of the group from the last Wednesday night at FANTAZ.
Thanks Sandi and Tim for getting this thing rolling and the possibility of a reunion. We will plan to be there.
We will be in Chicago June 20-28 on a missions trip and would love to have any of you join us for a night if you can.
Let's keep this thing going and growing.
Love you guys and will update as to all the famil ext time... now I am just trying to see if I can do this HA

Cal and KellyThompson said...

Hi everyone
I am trying to see if I can get this to work... if it does, I will post.
Cal