This Week at Wesley

In this week's email... Informational Meetings for Mission Trip Updated - Mission Trip Fundraiser Haunted House Information and Sign-up Breaking the Silence: Mental Illness and the Family Upcoming Events Join our Mailing List! Join our Facebook Group Peer Minister Office Hours The Wesley Peer Ministers will do their best to hold these office hours every week in the Etc. Coffeehouse or in the PM Office: Dylan Boot, Campus Ministry Intern - Tuesday 1-3pm, Friday 10-noon Jarod Spohrer - Tuesday 9-11am, Friday 12-3pm Hannah Nelson - Sunday 7-8pm, Wednesday 4-5pm Brooke McClure - Tuesday 10-11am, Thursday 10-11am John Powers - by request Renee Schroeder - by request Erin Heath - by request

Informational Meeting for the Mission Trip to Thailand The LAST informational meeting is this Sunday at 3:30 in the Conference Room! If you are at all interested in going on our mission trip, you MUST attend this meeting if you did not attend the meeting last week. We will be taking our mission trip to Nonthaburi, Thailand the first couple weeks in January. We will be organizing and running a VBS program for orphans with disabilities. Visit www.ccdthailand.org to learn more about the Rainbow Orphanage where we will be staying. The estimated cost of the trip is between $2600 and $3000. We will be doing a lot of fundrasing to hopefully pay about half of that cost. Passport Information If you are interested and you do not currently have a valid passport, you should get one! It will take a couple of months to process the application, so you should apply sooner rather than later. Passports are good for ten years, so even if you don't end up going, it may come in handy later on. Click here to be directed to the first time applicants section of the U.S. Department of State website. If you want a hard copy of the application, reply to this email and we can get you one. Volunteer Fundraising Opportunity Updated Are you thinking about going on the mission trip to Thailand? Do you want to help those who are going? If so, we have a volunteer opportunity for you! We will be selling concessions during the Illinois Homecoming football game on Saturday, October 23rd at 11am. We will also be running a parking lot to help raise funds for the trip. We need about five people to help in the parking lot starting around 8:30am, and any other volunteers can help with concessions starting around 9am. If you are interested in helping, just reply to this email or talk to Dylan. Haunted House is coming soon! Volunteers needed! Last year it took almost 200 people to make the biggest student run haunted house, which raised over $3,000 for the Wesley Evening Food Pantry that feeds over 900 families every month. We are looking for more volunteers this year. There are many different ways to help including being a zombie, helping with make-up, working the ticket booth, and many more. Groups are more than welcome to help. It's a great way to get service hours or just to hang out and have fun. If you would like more information, contact Jarod Spohrer at jspohrer@hotmail.com. If you would like to sign up to volunteer, simply click here. We will continue to have meetings in the Etc. Coffeehouse on Friday nights at 7:30 and Sunday afternoons at 12:30 (with light lunch). Build nights will be October 25, 26, and 27 starting at 5pm. The Haunted House will be the nights of the 29, 30, and 31st of October (Friday-Sunday), with a rehearsal night on Thursday the 28th. If you are interested in being an actor, you must be at the rehearsal or be at the haunted house the night before you start in order to be trained. Breaking the Silence: Mental Illness and the Family Do you have a family member suffering from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other serious mental illnesses? Do you know where to find help? Do you think enough support is available? NAMI Champiagn County (National Alliance on Mental Illness) presents a screening and discussion of the eye-opening public television program Minds on the Edge: Facing Menal Illness. The screening includes discussion with local experts. The screening will take place on Tuesday, October 19th from 7 to 9:30pm in the Wesley Foundation Great Hall. Learn more about mental illness at www.mindsontheedge.org. Weekly Services Sundays 9:30 am -- Traditional Worship Service 11:15 am -- Contemporary Worship Service Wednesdays 8:30 pm -- Midweek, student led service, in Watseka Lounge Upcoming Events October 15 - Cookout and Hayride with Purdue Wesley Foundation 17 - Mission Trip Info Meeting at 3:30 in Conference Room 19 - Minds on the Edge Screening at 7 in Great Hall 23 - Volunteer Fundraiser at Homecoming Football Game 29, 30, 31 - Haunted House November 6 - Football Pizza Party at Wesley January Mission Trip to Nonthaburi, Thailand