Emotional starvation, while not life threatening, does have some symptoms. For some of us, emotional starvation can lead to radical mood swings, for others to general lethargy, for others yet, to anger, bitterness, and resentment. The heart suffers and the body cries out. Most of all, emotional starvation leads to distortions in our character and prevents us from becoming the-best-version-of-ourselves.

For most people, their legitimate emotional needs include spending time with family, friends, a spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, colleagues at work, and perhaps a spiritual director or mentor. Spending time with these people helps us to develop a sense of self, teaches us to participate in the fulfillment of other people’s needs, and reminds us of our deep connection with the human family.

One of our most dominant emotional needs is our need for acceptance. We all need to feel we belong. In the face of rejection, we may put on a brave face and pretend that we can survive without acceptance. And that is true; we can survive without the nurturing acceptance provides.

But we cannot thrive without it.

We all have a great need to feel accepted. It is one of the forces that drives human behavior. Our need to be accepted is powerful, and it is astounding what most people will do to gain some sort of acceptance or sense of belonging.

…

I have always been fascinated with how many different churches there are in America and the criteria people use to choose a church. For several years I have been asking people, and I am amazed how similar their responses are. Most of them say something like “From the minute I walked in there five years ago, I just felt so welcome” or “I just feel like I belong there.”

We have a great need to be accepted. We need to belong.

With this in mind, it is easy to understand why so many people join gangs and cults. From time to time, you may hear a story about a gang or a cult, and those of us who live in a relatively secluded world may wonder why anyone would get involved in these things. Simple. Just like you and me, people who join gangs and cults have a legitimate need for acceptance and a sense of belonging. They just don’t have the options you and I have.
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Our needs are powerful. In many cases, if they are not fulfilled in healthy ways, they will seek their own satisfaction in self-destructive ways.”

Upcoming Events: = Basic Catechist Training  Monday Oct 11 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Martino Nguyen (Cha Thong) – We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule. = Leadership Fall Retreat for HT and HS Helpers Oct 15 @7pm – Oct 16 @5pm, 2010 – Please mark your calendars for our retreat to refresh our spiritual well being. Bring warm clothes and clothes you can get wet in.  - Come reconnect with God and each other.  - Please report to your Nganh Truong whether you can make it to this retreat.  = Basic Catechist Training  Monday Oct 25 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Martino Nguyen (Cha Thong) – We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule.
= Basic Catechist Training  Tues Nov 2 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Robert Tân Phạm – We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule. = Monthly HT & HS Adoration Saturday Nov 13 7:00-8:00pm due to Ephata Retreat – This Adoration will brought to you by Nganh Nghia.   – Come at 6:30pm for some food and mingling
= Monthly HT & HS Meeting Nov 14 @ 3:15pm-4:15pm.
= Thanksgiving TN Leadership Dinner Nov 26 @ 6pm, Location TBD
–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

= A Special Thanks to all HT and HS who showed up to show support for the families at the funeral. It is one of the ways we “làm việc tông đồ” doing apostolic work.

= Quote from “Because God is Real”

8. So the meaning of life is . . . to be a saint? Exactly! But being a saint does not necessarily mean being someone unusual and famous, like Saint Francis of Assisi or Mother Teresa. It means simply loving God with your whole heart and loving your neighbor as you love yourself (Mt 19:19). This is every person’s destiny. Most of us have a long, long way to go to reach it. But God cares about every one of His children, even the ones who are the slowest to learn to walk down the road of love, the only road that leads to Heaven. God cares about the smallest steps we take on this road, the tiniest choices to love. He is our Father, after all; that’s why He is “easy to please and hard to satisfy”, as C. S. Lewis’ friend George MacDonald put it. God is pleased with the first little baby steps we take on this royal road of love, but He will not be satisfied until we are mature and whole and reach the end of the road. That’s one reason why the process of learning to love completely will be completed after death in Purgatory for most of us: because we’re not finished yet. Although Baptism and faith have made us “justified” (or “saved”, or “in a state of grace”), so that we can go to Heaven, we still need to do good works, the works of love, throughout our lives in order to grow into saints, in order to be “sanctified”. Meanwhile, life is a road to that end. Here is what life looks like from the perspective of that end, that destiny:

It is a serious thing to live in a world of possible gods and goddesses, to realize that the dullest person you meet may one day be something which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship; or else a horror and a corruption which you meet now only in a nightmare. All day long we are helping each other to one or the other of these two destinations. There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations, these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we work with, play with, marry, snub, or exploit: immortal horrors or everlasting splendors (C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”). ”

Upcoming Events:

= Our First Praise & Worship: MOVED TO Friday Oct 1  @ 7pm-10pm

- We moved it so it would not conflict with the Wake service at Church

= Monthly HT & HS Adoration Saturday Oct 2nd 7:00-8:00pm in FULL UNIFORM

- This Adoration will brought to you by Nganh Thieu.

- Come at 6:30pm for some light food and mingling

= Monthly HT & HS Meeting Oct. 3 @ 3:15pm-4:15pm.

= Basic Catechist Training Tuesday Oct 5 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Robert Tân Phạm

- We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule.

= Leadership Fall Retreat for HT and HS Helpers Oct 15-16, 2010

- Please mark your calendars for our retreat to refresh our spiritual well being.

- Come reconnect with God and each other.

= Basic Catechist Training  Monday Oct 25 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Martino Nguyen (Cha Thong)

- We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule.

= Basic Catechist Training  Tues Nov 2 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Robert Tân Phạm

- We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule.

= Monthly HT & HS Adoration Saturday Nov 13 7:00-8:00pm due to Ephata Retreat

- This Adoration will brought to you by Nganh Nghia.

- Come at 6:30pm for some food and mingling

= Monthly HT & HS Meeting Nov 14 @ 3:15pm-4:15pm.

= Thanksgiving TN Leadership Dinner Nov 26 @ 6pm, Location TBD
–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

Upcoming Events:
= Pray for the Soul of Ong Vicente Truong Hoang Vinh (Eric’s grandfather) – Come show your support for their family. Please WEAR UNIFORM when you go to both funeral.
1. Wednesday (22/09/2010): * (Mass) Thanh Le Phat Tang luc 8:00am tai Nha Tho Ho Dao
* Tham vieng va chia buon tai nha quan Bill Head tu 10am den  8pm toi
2.  Thursday (23/09/2010):
* (Visitation)Tham vieng va chia buon tai nha quan Bill Head tu 10am til 4pm chieu.
* Thanh le canh thuc (Mass), cau nguyen cho lh Vicente Truong hoang Vinh luc 7:30pm (I’m planning to go to this mass)
* Cac Ban Nganh Doan Hoi, than huu, quyen thuoc chia buon voi tang quyen sau thanh le.
3.  Friday (24/09/2010) Thanh le (Mass) an tang luc 8:00 am va tien dua linh cuu den noi an nghi cuoi cung.

= Pray for the Soul of Martino Lê Minh Trung, (2 of our students dad who died in an accident on Sunday) - 8:00am Wednesday (22/09/2010): Le Phat Tang tai Nha Tho Ho Dao (at Church) – 7:30pm Friday (24/09/2010) Le Cau Hon (Mass), Canh Thuc, chia Buon tai Nha Tho Ho Dao  (at Church) (I’m planning to go to this mass)  - 8:00am Saturday (25/09/2010) Le An Tang & Tien Dua tại Nha Tho Ho Dao.  (at Church)

= Our First Praise & Worship: MOVED TO Friday Oct 1  @ 7pm-10pm – We moved it so it would not conflict with the Wake service at Church

= Monthly HT & HS Adoration Saturday Oct 2nd 7:00-8:00pm in FULL UNIFORM – This Adoration will brought to you by Nganh Thieu.   – Come at 6:30pm for some food and mingling

= Monthly HT Meeting Oct. 2 @ 3:15pm-4:15pm. = Basic Catechist Training Tuesday Oct 5 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Robert Tân Phạm – We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule. = Leadership Fall Retreat for HT and HS Helpers Oct 15-16, 2010 – Please mark your calendars for our retreat to refresh our spiritual well being.   - Come reconnect with God and each other.

= Basic Catechist Training  Monday Oct 25 @ 7pm-9pm: Rev. Martino Nguyen (Cha Thong) – We love what we know. We invite everyone to come to learn more about Jesus and the Church. 2010-2011Catechist Training Schedule.
= Monthly HT & HS Adoration Saturday Nov 13 7:00-8:00pm due to Ephata Retreat – This Adoration will brought to you by Nganh Nghia.   – Come at 6:30pm for some food and mingling

–Your Servant in Christ,Nhan

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

= Thank you to Duy Vu, anh Long, and Cac Nganh Truong, Maria, Phuong Anh, Richard, and Anh Khoa for organizing the Huan Luyen Doi Truong Doi Pho this past Saturday. Also thank you to all HT who came out to help with the event as well. The kids loved it

= Quote from the book “Because God is Real”

” 4. Should we question our faith?

Yes! – if questioning is sincere and honest and motivated by your wanting to know the truth and not by your wanting to just play games or show off. Saint Paul says, “Test everything; hold fast to what is good” (1 Thess 5:21). How can you know what is good unless you first test it, unless you first question it? The more deeply and honestly you question, the more you will appreciate the answers you find. But if you don’t really like answers but only questions, then you are not really honest in asking questions. To ask a question is to say, “I want the answer!” Preferring questions to answers is like preferring hunger to food. As G. K. Chesterton said, an open mind is like an open mouth: it’s open so that it can chomp down on something solid.”

(Rev 15:4) “Who will not fear you, Lord, or glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Upcoming Events:

= First Catechist Training This Thursday Sept, 16 @ 7:00pm.

- Father Dung will be teaching about What the Catholic Church Believes

- All HT and HS are invited to join to learn more about our faith

- The training dates for the rest of the year are available on Tomathienga.org=>Khoi Giao Duc

= Thank You Party for Fall Festival Helpers Saturday Sept 18, 2010 @ 7:00pm-9:00pm

- Everyone who contributed to Fall Festival are invited to come celebrate our success.

= Doan Toma Thien 14th Anniversary (Le Bon Mang Doan):

- Field Day- at Church-Sept 18th 1:00-6:00 pm for the students

- Sunday Sept 19 we will have new BCH sworn in.

- BBQ after Sunday class @ 3:15pm. All HT and HS are welcome to join to celebrate our Anniversay

= Our First Praise & Worship: Friday Sept 24

= Leadership Fall Retreat for HT and HS Helpers Oct 15-16, 2010

- Please mark your calendars for our retreat to refresh our spiritual well being.

- Come reconnect with God and each other.

–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

= Thank you all HT and HS who has contributed to the Fall Festival this weekend. It has been a success for our TN. The final numbers for us TN is that we had revenue of about $31,000 for showroom games + $7,000 for selling food. Our Expenses were $15,000 and so our profit is about $23,000.

= If you have Fall Festival Receipts, you need to turn it in to Ban Tai Chanh this week or else you will NOT be reimbursed.

= A special thanks to Michael for heading up the Fall Festival. Ani for coordinating the helpers. Khoa for coordinating the prizes. Anh Tuan (lon) for Mua Lan. Diem & anh Tuan for the play. Linh Nguyen for the entertainment programs.

Other HT and HS Helpers including Hai, Huy, Lieu, Loan, Anh Long, Maria, Paul, Nhat, QA, Robinson, Anh Tuan (nho), Bao, Tan, Ha Vu, My Thanh, Michael (flare), Richard, Kieu, Martino, Du, Peter, Jamila, Mai, Vu Hoang, Nam, Uyen, Phillip, Megan, Elizabeth, Tu, Joseph. If I forgot anyone else, please let me know so I can add their name to the list.

We’ve all had a fun and exhausting weekend. We lift up our Thanks to God for blessing us with such a beautiful weekend and things going smoothly. Enjoy catching up on your sleep this week.

Lev. 11:44 “make and keep yourselves holy, because I am holy”

Upcoming Events:

= Training day for Doi Truong & Doi Pho: At church on Saturday Sept 11 at 1:00-6:00pm

- Please call your students who didn’t turn in their forms to remind them and ask if they are going. Then please report to Nganh Truong so they can report to Lieu the names or students who are going.

- Anyone who can help out with this event, please contact and Long

= Monthly HT and HS Adoration: Sat, September 11, 19:00 – 20:00 in FULL UNIFORM

- Monthly Adoration got moved to the 2nd Saturday this month because of fall Festival

- If you are not able to make it, please report to Nganh Truong

= Doan Toma Thien Anniversary (Le Bon Mang Doan):

- Field Day-Church-Sept 18th 1:00-6:00 pm for the students

- Sunday Sept 19 we will have new BCH sworn in.

- Anyone who can help out with this event, please contact and Long

= Our First Praise & Worship: Friday Sept 24

= Leadership Fall Retreat for HT and HS Helpers Oct 15-16, 2010

- Please mark your calendars for our retreat to refresh our spiritual well being.

- Come reconnect with God and each other.
–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

= Thank you all HT and HS who joined us for the meeting on Sunday. It was a great way to kick off the year. Keep up the high spirit.

= As a reminder to all HT and Helpers. Please do NOT drive anyone under 18 off of church property without parental permission. Especially NOT during class hours.

= When I came to the US in 1992, I attended CCD Class (Church School) at St. Andrews Catholic Church. Looking back on those years, I didn’t learn much about the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any teacher that made much of an impact in my faith life. All I remember going to class once a week as to fill in the blanks in a workbook we had just to fill our time (busy work). Most of the time I didn’t understand much anyways so I would just copy from some other kids’ workbook to be done with. To me, God was up there and I’m down here. I do my thing and He does His thing, as long as I’m not bad, he’s not going to bother me.

One of the big reasons why my lack of faith education besides not having good teachers was not having good text books. My suspicions were confirmed when Dr. Peter Kreeft, one of our best Catholic Theologican and Boston College Professor, commented on how boring our Catechist text books are. They are dry and filled with knowledge, but lack in passion and practical examples. So when I went to his talk when he spoke at St. Peter Chanel, I asked him what is his suggestion for addressing the problem of dry and boring Catechist books. He said, read his book “Because God is Real” because he wrote it to address real life questions to our faith. I just finished reading the book and I think it’s a MUST READ for all Catechist teachers. I’ll send some sample text in the next few emails.

Be a SAINT and have a wonderful week.

Upcoming Events:

= Church Adoration and mass to pray for the Fall Festival.

2/ Adoration; Friday 9/3 9:30-11:30 am
3/ adoration: Saturday 9/4 9:30-11:30 am
4/ Mass: Saturday 9/4 at 5:30 & midnight
5/ Mass: Sunday 9/5 at 7:30 am & 9:30 am only, no 11:30 & 1:00 masses.

= Fall Festival Sept 3-5th (NO CLASS)

- We will be responsible for games in the Show Room.

- If you haven’t signed up to help already, please email him if you can help (michaelpham84@gmail.com)

- We are still desperately in need of volunteers, please sign up any time you can.

= Training day for Doi Truong & Doi Pho: At church on Saturday Sept 11 at 1:00-6:00pm - Please call your students who didn’t turn in their forms to remind them and ask if they are going. Then please report to Nganh Truong so they can report to Lieu the names or students who are going.

= Monthly HT and HS Adoration: Sat, September 11, 19:00 – 20:00 in FULL UNIFORM

- Monthly Adoration got moved to the 2nd Saturday this month because of fall Festival

- If you are not able to make it, please report to Nganh Truong

= Doan Toma Thien Anniversary (Le Bon Mang Doan): - Field Day-Church-Sept 18th 1:00-6:00 pm for the students

- Sunday Sept 19 we will have new BCH sworn in.

= Our First Praise & Worship: Friday Sept 24

–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

= Please pray for anh Long’s Dad, he’s back in the hospital and back in ICU again due to low sodium.

= Thank you all for getting back into our teaching roles again. The first few weeks of class are always hectic and filled with many confusing things. Please bare with Khoi Giao Duc as we try to get things sorted out.

= Website Update www.tomathienga.org . I have added a section for Khoi Giao Duc (Education Dept) so as to update all the documents from So or chi Huong for your references. For example, which days do we get off for Sunday School or if you need email address of your fellow teachers, it’s all under Khoi Giao Duc page

http://www.tomathienga.org/?page_id=555

Upcoming Events:

= Building For Fall Festival Sat. Aug 28 11am-8pm

- Please come to help Michael build games for Fall Festival

= First HT Meeting Aug. 29 @ 3:30pm-4:30pm.

- Lay the vision for the direction of our Doan
- Set HT expectations for next year
- Ask for volunteers for upcoming events

- If you can’t make it to the meeting, let your Nganh Truong know

= Church Adoration and mass to pray for the Fall Festival.

1/ Adoration: Thursday 8/26 at 6:00-7:30 pm.
2/ Adoration; Friday 9/3 9:30-11:30 am
3/ adoration: Saturday 9/4 9:30-11:30 am
4/ Mass: Saturday 9/4 at 5:30 & midnight
5/ Mass: Sunday 9/5 at 7:30 am & 9:30 am only, no 11:30 & 1:00 masses.

= Fall Festival Sept 3-5th (NO CLASS)

- We will be responsible for games in the Show Room. Michael is heading up the event.

- He will need 15 HT to volunteer to manage the student volunteers for the booths. Please email him if you can help (michaelpham84@gmail.com)

= Training day for Doi Truong & Doi Pho: At church on Saturday Sept 11 at 1:00-6:00pm
- Please collect the forms back this week and give it to Lieu so we can know how many are going.

= Monthly HT and HS Adoration: Sat, September 11, 19:00 – 20:00 in FULL UNIFORM

- Monthly Adoration got moved to the 2nd Saturday this month because of fall Festival

- If you are not able to make it, please report to Nganh Truong = Doan Toma Thien Anniversary (Le Bon Mang Doan):
- Field Day-Church-Sept 18th 1:00-6:00 pm for the students

- Sunday Sept 19 we will have new BCH sworn in.

= Our First Praise & Worship: Friday Sept 24

–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

Doan Truong Blogging:

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

Thank you all the HT and HS who came out for the Adoration to worship Jesus to kick off the year. A special thanks Ha Vu and all the Huynh Truong/Hiep Sy who contributed to make the potluck on Saturday a success.

Also thank you to all those who came out to help make our Church physically more beautiful and for those who helped Michael prepare for the Fall Festival coming up.

PRAYER.

It is the lifeline of our work for building the Church and building TNTT. Since Jesus in the Eucharist is the source of our strength, prayer is the way in which we tap into that strength to keep us going strong. Without prayer, we will be like a branch that has fallen off the tree. It may look green but sooner or later, it will dry up and die. Without prayer, all the knowledge we have and all the time we spend teaching is worthless. No lives are changed and everyone’s time is wasted. We are the ones who sow the seeds into the kids hearts, but without prayer to ask for the grace of God to water that seed, it becomes like dead summer grass facing a drought.

Therefore, I believe it is my job as a Doan Truong to pray for you each day. I pray that you become a Better-Version-Of-Yourself each day by growing in holiness. Once we have God as the center of our lives, everything else will fall into place. I also ask you to pray for me to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that I can do things that will help our Doan grow in holiness. It is also your responsibility to pray for those who are under your care. For Ban Chap Hanh (formerly known as BQT) to pray for our fellow HT. For Nganh Truong to pray for HT in your nganh, for those who teach class to pray for your students each and everyday. That way our chain of prayers unite us in God and everyone receives grace at all levels.

Prayers doesn’t have to be long and it doesn’t have to wait until night time for you to pray. Just whenever you remember another HT, ask God to bless them.

Upcoming Events:

1) Sunday August 22 is the FIRST DAY OF CLASS

- All 1st-7th grade students will gather in class and have regular class from 9am-10am (Giao Ly Portion)

- Near 10am, your class will be instructed to move into the Social Hall for the Opening Ceremony (10am-11am)

- Mass begins at 11:30-12:30ish

- Afternoon classes will be from 1pm-3pm. First Hour is Giao Ly, second hour is TNTT.

- As I said during Sunday’s meeting, all HT and HS teaching/helping with class are expected to be present for both teaching hours.

- Reminder: Please make sure you divide your class into groups this week and Doi Truong Doi Pho forms for them to go to training.

- Lieu will print out permission forms to give to Nganh Truong. Nganh Truong will give to each class their DT/DP training forms to be collected Aug 29.
2) First HT Meeting Aug. 29 @ 3:30pm-4:30pm.
- Lay the vision for the direction of our Doan

- Set HT expectations for next year
- Ask for volunteers for upcoming events

3) Fall Festival Sept 3-5th (NO CLASS)

- We will be responsible for games in the Show Room. Michael is heading up the event.

- He will need 15 HT to volunteer to manage the student volunteers for the booths. Please email him if you can help (michaelpham84@gmail.com)

4) Training day for Doi Truong & Doi Pho: At church on Saturday Sept 11 at 1:00-6:00pm

5) Doan Toma Thien Anniversary (Le Bon Mang Doan):

- Field Day-Church-Sept 18th 1:00-6:00 pm for the students

- Sunday we will have new BCH sworn in.

6) Our First Praise & Worship: Sept 24

7) Forms will be uploaded to our website www.tomathienga.org =>forms http://www.tomathienga.org/?page_id=7

- Equipment request forms will be uploaded soon

- Any other forms you want to see on the website, let Tan know (imazn44@gmail.com)

That is all for now. Have a blessed week filled with God’s peace.
–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

Doan Truong Blogging:

http://www.tomathienga.org/huynhtruong/

As I plan for the new school year, I think a lot about what is the direction we are headed and how do the things we do help us get there.

Where there is no vision the people will perish (Proverbs 29:18)

Without a vision of where we are going, we wouldn’t not get anywhere. As we head into the new year, I challenge each one of us to think about what do we plan to accomplish this year. If we do the same things, we will get the same result, therefore if we want to improve and have different results, we have to do things differently.

What will you change about yourself this year? What will you change about your way of teaching this year? What will you change about how you preparing for lessons to help delivery God’s message better?

The way I normally do it is by writing down a list of things I would like to see happen this year. I call this my dreams list. It’s the list of things that help inspire me to work at it this year to make a difference. Then I would pick one thing on the dreams list to work on. That way, I can focus on improving a little bit each day.

Upcoming Events:

1) HT Adoration (WEAR UNIFORM) moved to August 14, after which we will have potluck at Duy Vu’s house:

Address:

6503 Wandering Way, Norcross, GA 30093

- After Adoration, we will head over to Duy Vu’s house for potluck, please email Ha Vu (vuhanguyen333@yahoo.com) to let him know if you are coming and what you will bring to the Potluck.

2) Saturday 8/14/2010 - School beautification day & Building Games Booth for Fall Festival from 11:00am – 5:00 pm.

- Come and help out if you are available.

3) Sunday 8/15/2010 – All Giao Ly Teachers meeting at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm in the Confirmation Class (Bldg B).

- All teachers and helpers are expected to go to to the meeting

4) Reminder: Sunday August 22 is the FIRST DAY OF CLASS

5) Teacher’s and Helpers Assignment List:

- The list co Huong sent out is not updated because I moved some people around.

- Please use this link for the most updated list as to who’s assigned to which class.

- Please email me (nonagon@gmail.com) directly if you have any concern with the list.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnOpEo6IdwDAdDdmeEIyelZSbFM2LVFYdDF4T3ZKMmc&hl=en&authkey=CPTrzckO

–
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan

Doan Truong Rambling:

It seems like our summer just flew past us. Only less than 3 more weeks before we get to go back and see our students and teach them about Jesus again. I hope everyone is having a wonderful last summer vacation before the school year begins

Ban Chap Hanh (BCH what is formally known as BQT) met this past weekend to lay out the vision for our TNTT. I am excited about what are headed for the next year. We laid out our dreams of our Doan and we will pursue them with our focus. There are also many issues that we still haven’t had a chance to touch on, like what is our role as TNTT in our Church. Is evangelizing and teaching Catechism part of our core mission or some HT just happen to be catechist teachers as well?

Upcoming Events:

1) HT Adoration (WEAR UNIFORM) moved to August 14, after which we will have potluck at Duy Vu’s house:

– Since so many people are taking vacations this weekend, I’ve decided to move Adoration back 1 week.

– After Adoration, we will head over to Duy Vu’s house for potluck, please email Ha Vu (vuhanguyen333@yahoo.com) to let him know if you are coming and what you will bring to the Potluck.

2) Sunday 8: Student Sign up from 9:00am-1:00pm

– We still need your help with the sign up and selling uniforms.

- please email chi Huong (huong_giang@bellsouth.net) for helping sign up and email Michael (michaelpham84@gmail.com)  for helping selling uniforms.

3) Reminder: Sunday August 22 is the FIRST DAY OF CLASS (it’s moved from August 15 because Cha won’t be there on August 15)

4) Finalizing the Teachers List:

– I am still working on making some changes to the list and so I am not able to send it out to everyone yet.

4) Fall Festival on Sept. 4-5 is only a month away. We will be hearing from Michael soon as to preparation for the games.

Thank you for your service. Please continue to pray for our Doan to embrace God’s mission to evangelize.
Your Servant in Christ,
Nhan