The sun is coming up on a beautiful morning in Sylacauga, Alabama again. For my friends that read this around the country you can skip this next part since you've been snowed in for a few weeks. It was unusually warm during the Christmas break but as they always say "If you don't like the weather hang around, it will change in 10 minutes." It seems like that 10 minutes is up where we live. As many of you all know, we will hold our pre-trip meeting for our student winter retreat on Sunday, December 11, 2009 after our evening service at FBC. One of the things that we will ask you to do at this meeting is to stay tuned to this blog or the blog on the www.fbcstudentslive.com website under the parent's page. Sometimes we need to get information out quickly and our student website is the fastest way to do this.

We talked about the weather because the weather people in our area seem to be in agreement that we are going to see very, very cold weather as we leave next week. As it stands now the forecast high for Friday is 39 with a low of 19. I ask you to watch this for two reasons. One, it will help you to pack properly for your student that will be leaving with us next Saturday morning. And, two, we may have to make travel changes and they will be posted here and on the student ministry site. Why may there be travel changes? For the 2008 winter retreat weekend, a cold front with a snow, ice mix moved into this region while many of the conference attendees would have been making their way to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Instead of groups not coming, the SDEA allowed the conference attendees to leave on Friday afternoon after school and check-in to their hotels that night without charge. So, if the possibility of a winter mix of precipitation becomes a reality there is a great chance that we could leave on Friday night and not on Saturday morning.

Stay tuned and we will see you on Sunday night.