This Sunday our Sunday school programming will start up again, with Echo the Story at 9:00 for youth 6th-12th grade. Susan Watson and Kristin Muckian will be leading this week. TRU Function will practice 10:00-12:00. I will be away this Sunday, attending to the memorial for my niece in Albuquerque, NM. 

Looking ahead, Sunday 1/14 is our All Church Retreat at Daycholah Center. I will be offering some youth-specific programming on Saturday morning at the retreat. I'm excited for our time together! We will not have regularly scheduled Sunday school at ORUCC on the 14th, and TRU Function will not have practice. If you would like to sign up for the retreat, there's still time! Please sign up here.

Another exciting development: I have been part of a group discussing the idea of an interfaith GSA (Gender-Sexuality Alliance) group in Madison. Anyone interested is invited to come to a meeting at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Sunday, January 21 at 1:00. I will be there–if there are any youth who have interest in sharing their perspectives about what this kind of a group might look like, I'd like to invite you to come along too! Let me know if you'd like to join me there. 

Grace and peace,

Kate