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This week’s episode features details about the extended deadline for Spring Break missions, new calendar stuff, a discussion covering what missed in TV, music, fashion, and food in the new year, and a recording of the sermon delivered by Rev. David Fuquay at the Gator Wesley Center on January 22, 2012.

We still have room on both of our Spring Break missions trips, so we are extending the deadline to February 1 to sign up and pay your deposit. For details on both trips and to sign up online, click over to our Spring Break Mission Trip page.

This week begins the intramural season! The first group up is our co-ed rec soccer team on Monday nights at 7pm at Southwest Rec. Starting next week, we have two basketball teams in action. Men’s basetball is Mondays at 6pm, and the co-ed rec team is Tuesdays at 9pm. Later this week, we will have details about softball. To keep up to date on all intramural action, join our intramural Facebook group (link). Within that group, each sport will have its own event for coordination and communication. Check out the soccer (link) and basketball (link) events. To sign up for our intramural teams, you must go through UF’s intramural page- if you have questions about how to do that, talk to Matt or Brandon or post on the wall of the Facebook group.

Come on out this Friday night at 8pm for a 1950s Theme Night! We will have music, food, and themed games! So, bust out your best vintage-wear (or something like it), and come on out for an old fashioned sock hop!

On Saturday, February 18, the Maranatha Choir will be celebrating its 40^th Anniversary, and we have a bunch of alumni coming into town. We need people to baby/kid-sit from 9:30am-4:30pm, again from 6:00pm-9:00pm that evening, and during church on Sunday. We are looking for 10-15 people who are not in Maranatha who would be interested in watching, babies, toddlers, or young kids. If you are interested, please email dan@gatorwesley.com and RSVP to the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/360266953998708/ . At the Facebook event, please specify which times you are available out of 9:30pm-4:30pm Saturday, 6:00pm-9:00pm Saturday, and during church on Sunday.

The dealine to register for the Maranatha 40th Anniversary Weekend is January 31. Click on the banner above or head directly to http://www.GatorWesley.com/Maranatha to get more details and to register online. You may also call the office (352-372-8183) and speak to Pam or email her (pam@gatorwesley.com) if you have questions.

We have brand new Gator Wesley t-shirts available for $10. You can swing by the office during the day to get one, or purchase one at almost any event at the Gator Wesley Center. Proceeds will go to support missions trips and projects.

One of our roles as a United Methodist campus ministry is to develop leaders. Part of that role involves helping students explore whether they might be called into ministry. The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church has put together a new website for people who want to learn more. Check it out at: http://www.mycallfl.org/

A prayer group is forming that will meet each week on Thursday night at 10:30pm. This is an informal group, so come when you can. On Tuesdays and Fridays, there is a group of students who will be eating lunch together around 11:45am. Bring your lunch or pick up something there, and enjoy some community! On Tuesdays they will be at the Reitz Union Foodcourt, and on Friday they will be at the HUB.

The Gator Wesley Center will be open from 11am-11pm on Monday-Friday, as well as on Sunday afternoons until 5:30pm. It is a great place to both hang out and study (FREE wireless internet!).

Our regular weekly Spring activities are as follows:
Sunday- Modern Worship, 11am
Free Student Lunch, after worship
Monday- Emerge Freshman Group, 9pm
Praise Band Practice- Jam Band at 7:30pm, Praise Band at 9pm(email dan@gatorwesley.com for details)
Wednesday- Bible Study/Small Groups, 7pm
Evensong Late Night Worship, 8:30pm
Thursday- Intramural Night, details TBA
Friday- Wesley Nights fellowship activities on select Fridays, See the full calendar for details.

There are two important ways you can stay connected to Gator Wesley through Facebook. First, if you would like to receive a weekly update, which is a message complete with everything you need to know about what’s going on at Gator Wesley, join our group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatorWesley

If you would like to receive quick announcement updates and encouraging thoughts and prayers in your news feed from Gator Wesley, become a fan on our fan page: http://www.facebook.com/GatorWesley

Is waiting 7 days to come back next Sunday too long? Was there a worship song or two this year that was new, and you would like to hear it again to learn it? Well, now you can! Check out this new Grooveshark playlist with some of our most used songs from worship for FREE:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Gator+Wesley+Worship/28538880

This semester, we have a few students who live further away from campus and need rides to church. If you are willing and able to give someone a ride on a Sunday, please email Dan at dan@gatorwesley.com so he can connect you with people who need a ride. Thank you in advance for helping these students get to worship!