Hello All!

This week, Biola University will be visiting BYU for a couple of days of dialogue. Their group is big--42 students--so they will be coming two days. The two days will look essentially the same. Also, because their group is so big, we REALLY need you guys to show up and be here to talk to them. I think that they get really disappointed if there aren't very many BYU students to talk with, because that is one of the big reasons they come! SO, please pass this along to your friends and ask them to take a couple hours out of their "studying" to come and make friends with these students and to learn more about our brothers and sisters of the Evangelical tradition.

The schedule will look like this:
all events will take place in 382 JSB (note room changes for Thursday, from 11-1)
9:30 Welcome and kick-off
10:15 Presentation by Brother Millet and Pastor Greg Johnson.
11:00 Break
11:30 Lunch, first come, first serve; flowing nicely into...
1:00 Student roundtable discussions
4:30 pack up

On Thursday, Lunch will be in a room TBA (yes, that means I'll be sending you another email), and then at 1pm we'll be back in 382 JSB for the rest of the afternoon.

On Wednesday, from 6-9pm there will be a gathering at Kiwanis park. This is NOT sponsored by interfaith hosting, but would be a great opportunity to chill more with these cool people!

On Friday, at 7, there will be a hang out at Calvery Mountain View Church in American Fork. For directions, click here. This is unquestionably the best part of the week, where we get to just hang out with these awesome folks! Dinner and smoothies provided!

Also, thanks for your participation this semester; there will be a few groups coming in the summer, so keep checking your email and hopefully we'll see you around.

Once again, PLEASE invite your friends, roommates, girlfriend, boyfriend, FHE group, etc. to come participate in this excellent opportunity to become better friends with our brothers and sisters of the Evangelical tradition.

Thanks,
Kate
p.s. if you have any questions, please email interfaithhosting@gmail.com
p.p.s. You guys rock!

APU Visit, Tuesday April 7th

On Tuesday, April 7th, we will have the pleasure of a visit from Azusa Pacific University! I'm really excited for this visit; their team will have 7 students, and a professor and his wife. What a pleasure! The schedule will go a little like this:

**all events (except the devotional, of course) will be held in 3223 Wilk**
9:30 am Continental breakfast, welcome, and introductions
10:00 am Professors present.
10:50 am Devotional (call if you want to meet up with us)
12:10 pm Lunch, flowing nicely into dialogues
4:00 pm depart

I really need you guys to come! We really want to show these groups that this is important to us, and that means showing up to talk with them.

I especially need help in the morning; I have class and will be unable to be there until just before devotional. Please make an effort to be there between 9:30 and join us for devotional.

For the people that are new to dialogue, the presentation by the professors will be a great opportunity to see what dialogue is like--what the approach is, etc.

If you plan on joining us for lunch, you MUST RSVP to me by Friday morning. I will be making the order Friday.

Thanks for your help! This is looking to be a great team and a great experience!

ALSO! Gmail now thinks I'm a spammer, so please join this google group so that I can email all of you. Sorry for the hassle, but it's the only way I can think of to send out one large email. The link is: http://groups.google.com/group/byu-interfaith-hosting-program

Feel free to contact me with any questions, ideas, or concerns; also feel free to forward this email to friends you think may be interested--just remind them that they need to RSVP if they want food!

Thanks again,
Kate
interfaithhosting@gmail.com

p.s. you can add our google calendar by copying and pasting this url into the "add a friend's calendar" box in your google calendar: m5ddv3jk6a7hlhk3bqduonm2c0@group.calendar.google.com
this calendar contains all of the up-to-date info on events, and it goes right into your google calendar! (yes, I am a shameless promoter of google calendar)

Wheaton Visit = Success!

And when I say "success", I don't mean we baptized them all! What I mean by "success" is that we had a lovely time talking doctrine and theology and getting to know each other as children of God. We met at Calvery Mountain in American Fork. Here are some pics from the night:

winter semester overview

We have a packed schedule coming up for the rest of the semester!
Here goes:

1. First, some important business. I need to have a tight head count for all meals, and ideally, all activities. You need to let me know if you are going to come. If you may or may not be able to come, respond in the affirmative. There isn't a limit to the number of BYU students, but I just need to have an idea of what to expect.

2. NCU visit. Six students from North Central University are in Utah and want to have dinner with a few students at Brick Oven this Thursday night, say around 6 pm. It will be pay-yourself, but always delicious. These students are AWESOME. RSVP to me by Thursday morning if you want to come so that I can make a reservation.

3. Wheaton College visit. March 10th. Ten students and Dr. Jerry Root. The schedule goes a little bit like this:
9:00 am, 382 JSB: Welcome and kick-off by Brother Millet and Jerry Root. This is going to be amazing, Dr. Root and Bro. Millet are awesome to listen to, and you definitely won't regret coming to this.
10:00 am: Tour of BYU campus. You're invited to this, but since we'll probably take golf carts, I definitely need to know if you're coming
11:00 am: Devotional with Elder Jay E. Jensen, in the Marriot Center. Call me at 801.369.1375 if you want to meet up with us.
12:00 noon (ish): lunch, in 382 JSB. If you want food, you MUST rsvp to me. I will have a list of students who have rsvp-d and I will not let you have a sandwich until everyone who did rsvp has a sandwich if you haven't rsvp-d!
1:00 pm (ish) to 4:00 pm (ish), 382 JSB: Student round-table discussions. The Wheaton group is one you won't want to miss. seriously.
5:45 pm: dinner at the Creamery on Ninth. This is pay-yourself, but a kid's meal is cheap and plentyful. We'll eat together and then go somewhere on or near campus to hang out. We want somewhere comfortable, so if you have any ideas or want to offer up your apartment (it should be fairly large, able to hold twenty or so people) to meet at, let me know. We'll try to wrap up around 10:00 pm.

Friday, March 13th, there will be a hangout at Calvary Mountain View Chapel in American Fork at 7:00 pm. Follow this link for directions. Dinner will be provided, and often, there is a fun worship service. Always a pleasure to be with these folks in a more relaxed situation.

4. APU visit. April 7th. 6-10 students and Dr. Dennis Okholm.

9:00 am, 382 JSB: Light breakfast and kick-off by Pastor Greg Johnson, Dr. Okholm, and hopefully Sister Fronk and Brother Fluhman. Once again, something you won't want to miss.
10:30 am, depart for devotional, taking a walking tour of campus as we go to the Marriot Center.
11:00 am, Marriot Center: Devotional, Choral assembly. Call me at 801.369.1375 if you want to meet us.
12:00 noon: lunch in 382 JSB. If you want food, you MUST rsvp to me. I will have a list of students who have rsvp-d and I will not let you have a sandwich until everyone who did rsvp has a sandwich if you haven't rsvp-d!
1:00 pm (ish) to 4:00 pm (ish), 382 JSB: Student round-table discussions. You know the drill. And if you don't, you should get to know it!
5:45 pm: dinner somewhere. details to follow! as well as more awesome social time!

5. Biola visit. April 15th and 16th. Upwards of 45 students. Yeah. That's big. And yes, during reading days. We really need your help and attendance on this one. Seriously. You will be happy you came. I promise. I don't know the exact schedules on this yet, but I'm guessing that they will be similar to the ones already set up.

6. If you have any ideas or suggestions, I'd be happy to take them.

7. We will be meeting Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:00 pm in C207 Benson to have a preview/training of sorts. We will meet each Tuesday at 6:00 pm in the same room when we are not hosting a group. You MUST attend one of these trainings throughout the semester to attend the dialogues. If you cannot come to one of these trainings, please let me know, and I'll try to work something out with this. I hope to make one meeting required and then expand the advertising base, so that I can get more people that are interested involved, but also give the students that are new to it a chance to learn about the attitudes requred for dialogue and our approach. What do you think of this idea? I really need your feedback!

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Hey friends!

How is the new semester? I just wanted to give you a feel for what is coming, and perhaps get some feedback from you.

1. The Wheaton visit has been set, so mark your calendars!

• To add my interfaith hosting calendar to your google calendar, you can copy and paste this url in your google calendar where it says "add a friend's calendar": m5ddv3jk6a7hlhk3bqduonm2c0@group.calendar.google.com
• I'm going to try to keep this calendar as updated as possible so that you can plan ahead
• Yes, this is my shameless plug for google calendar.
  

2. We're trying to work on some things for the Biola visit during April. Their trip dates are the 13-17th of April, which happens to be the last funky week of school with two classes, two reading days, and finals starting on Friday. What do you think about a visit that week? Should we schedule it during the last two days of class, or should we wait until reading days? I really need some good feedback from you guys, so please let me know on this.

3. You can also keep up with the interfaith hosting program at http://byuinterfaithhostingprogram.blogspot.com/ or http://byuinterfaithhosting.googlepages.com. I'm not the most computer literate, so if someone wants to help me with these, or write on the blog, please let me know.

4. You can reach me at this email address! We hope to use this account so that we can make transitions easier. Add it to your contacts list: interfaithhosting@gmail.com. If you want to keep emailing me at sadler.kate@gmail.com, you're totally welcome to.

5. If you have friends who want to be on this email list, tell them to email interfaithhosting@gmail.com.

6. Anything else? You guys are AWESOME.

Kate

Upcoming Events

Next up, I believe, is an Assemblies of God group from North Central University in Minneapolis, MN. I actually haven't heard any details about this trip yet, but I know that their spring break is March 2-6. Man, this group is stellar, and I hope that they are still planning on coming.

Other dates to look for:

Wheaton, March 10th (also bringing a STELLAR team)

Biola, April 13-17 (yes, I know that this is reading days/finals, we're working on the dates, etc.)