Why Puppets?

We have received our new puppets!  This year we have 5 puppet teams (that's right 5 puppet teams)!   Thanks to all our puppet team leaders for organizing these puppet teams.  We have gone back and forth on if we want to invest in another puppet stage for practice.  We have decided to hold off this year on the new puppet stage and see how it goes.  There are ways to practice without a stage.

Why have puppets?  Is there a spot in the Church for puppets?  We don't have puppets in Church?

Puppets actually has some huge benefits. 

• Teams learn to work together with a team to accomplish a goal.
• Teams grow closer (fellowship)
• Commitment to a team.  Once you sign up for a team there is a committment to practice with that team.  There are ones that are sacrificing sporting events and other activities to be at practice.
• Leadership can be shown in different ways on a puppet team (example and actually leading the team).

Great Job puppet teams!

~Scott Miller

Thanks Misty!

The other night I was on the phone with Misty for over an hour planning out the meal plan for the convention.  We have changed up a few things to be efficient.  A few things that we are looking at:

• We plan to have meal sign-ups and charge by the meal instead of a weekend meal ticket. 

Breakfast will be int he form of a grab bag that can be picked up the evening before or the morning of.

Lunch will be provided in a family bag based on what you sign up for.

These are only a few of the ideas that we are planning to do this year, but this gives you an idea of where we are going with this. 

Look for the meal sign-ups to be handed out starting this Friday (Feb 24).

Premier and Practice

Last night we had the first practice and movie premier.  The movie premier I thought turned out really good.  At 5:30 we began by announcing all that were in the films.  Tim Nance was the announcer.  We played the same music that they used to announce Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen when they were with the Bulls.  When their name was announced they got to walk down the red carpet.

It made it all worth while when I was putting Kayla to bed and she told me her favorite part of the day was being a movie star.  We had a great time.

The films were "RODEO DREAMS" and "TACO SPY AND THE NINJA WARRIORS".  These were sent out to the L2L guys.  We'll see during the convention where we come out.

We had practice right after.  We have scheduled it out that we have 15 minute practice sessions.  The goal is to try to do more and more one on one practicing.

Nashville Blue

The divisions have come out for the L2L convention. We are in the Nashville Blue Divison. See the listing below. We are in seating order #7 at the convention (out of 39 Churches).

We have 89 seats reserved (parents and kids at the Convention) - These are kids signed up and adults that are staying at the hotel! We are the 8th largest group in our group! The program at Walter Hill has really grown in 2 years!  The question is are we growing in just numbers or are the youth growing spiritually to be great leaders in the Church? 


Churches in our division (look at the list - Do you have family at any of these Churches? What a great time for a family reunion!

1 Atwood Church of Christ at Atwood, TN (Nashville/Blue) 20
2 Owens Cross Roads Church of Christ at Owens Cross Roads, AL (Nashville/Blue) 69
3 Portland Church of Christ at Portland, TN (Nashville/Blue) 121
4 Center Hill (AR) Church of Christ at Paragould, AR (Nashville/Blue) 67
5 Ninth Avenue Church of Christ at Haleyville, AL (Nashville/Blue) 121
6 West Main Church of Christ at Tupelo, MS (Nashville/Blue) 93
7 Walter Hill Church of Christ at Murfreesboro, TN (Nashville/Blue) 89
8 Germantown Church of Christ at Germantown, TN (Nashville/Blue) 144
9 Hoover Church of Christ at Hoover, AL (Nashville/Blue) 134
10 Fairlane Church of Christ at Shelbyville, TN (Nashville/Blue) 45
11 Ellijay Church of Christ at Ellijay, GA (Nashville/Blue) 74
12 Jacksonburg Church of Christ at Florence, AL (Nashville/Blue) 41
13 Mt. Carmel Church of Christ at Athens, AL (Nashville/Blue) 57
14 Highland Park Church of Christ at Muscle Shoals, AL (Nashville/Blue) 58
15 Eva Church of Christ at Eva, AL (Nashville/Blue) 31
16 Northeast (Kingsport) Church of Christ at Kingsport, TN (Nashville/Blue) 40
17 Brentwood Hills Church of Christ at Nashville, TN (Nashville/Blue) 158
18 Shady Land Church of Christ at Bowling Green, KY (Nashville/Blue) 19
19 Cottondale Church of Christ at Cottondale, AL (Nashville/Blue) 57
20 Greenwood Park Church of Christ at Bowling Green, KY (Nashville/Blue) 46
21 Woodlawn Church of Christ at Florence, AL (Nashville/Blue) 62
22 Pulaski Street Church of Christ at Lawrenceburg, TN (Nashville/Blue) 69
23 Liberty Church of Christ at Dennis, MS (Nashville/Blue) 36
24 Exchange Street Church of Christ at Union City, TN (Nashville/Blue) 33
25 Concord Road Church of Christ at Brentwood, TN (Nashville/Blue) 105
26 Samford Church of Christ at Steele, MO (Nashville/Blue) 59
27 East Side (Cleveland) Church of Christ at Cleveland, TN (Nashville/Blue) 38
None Cox Boulevard Church of Christ at Sheffield, AL (Nashville/Blue) 101
None Grant Church of Christ at Grant, AL (Nashville/Blue) 42
None Hartville Church of Christ at Hartville, OH (Nashville/Blue) 71
None Homewood Church of Christ at Birmingham, AL (Nashville/Blue) 41
None Lomax Church of Christ at Hohenwald, TN (Nashville/Blue) 41
None Madison (MS) Church of Christ at Madison, MS (Nashville/Blue) 28
None Main Street (Springfield) Church of Christ at Springfield, TN (Nashville/Blue) 37
None Rossville Church of Christ at Rossville, GA (Nashville/Blue) 76
None Salem Church of Christ at Florence, AL (Nashville/Blue) 64
None South Green Street Church of Christ at Glasgow, KY (Nashville/Blue) 79
None Spring Meadows Church of Christ at Spring Hill, TN (Nashville/Blue) 47
None Sylvan Springs Church of Christ at Sylvan Springs, AL (Nashville/Blue) 34

Practice Is Here

It is hard to believe practice starts this friday! We'll start our first practice session with the movie premier for the storyline. Can't wait to show it to each of you. We have some talented actors and actresses!

Make sure you let the adult leaders know if your child is unable to attend any friday night so they can plan accordingly.

Adult leaders look for an email in the next couple days which will have the schedule for you for each friday's practice.

Also, if you were unable to sign up for food on Friday let Heather know. We are anticipating that we'll be feeding around 50 or so each Friday night!

~ Scott Miller