MID AMERICA TEC
November 2000
TEENS ENCOUNTER CHRIST

10/2000 Volume 23 No. 1 1206 E. McCarty St., Jefferson City, MO 65101 573-635-5717
Newsletter email:www.midamericatec.com

FRIDAY NIGHT SHARED PRAYER FOR TEC #176

All TECites are invited to pray with the Team beginning at 7:30 PM sharp, Nov 10, St Joseph Parish, Salisbury, MO

Weekend Director: Pam Whitney
Spiritual Director: Fr. Chris Cordes
Assistant Director: Sarah Aulber
Asst. Spiritual Director: Rev. Mr. Vince Garufi

WHEAT LETTERS: Mail Your Letters To
St. Joseph Parish
Attn: Wheat Letter
301 W. Williams St.
Salisbury, MO 65281

REUNION Nov 12, 2000
3:30 PM Candidate's Parents' Meeting
4:00 PM Gathering Time
4:30 PM Liturgy
6:00 PM Hoot, Shared Prayer

TEC WEEKENDS FOR 2001
#177 - Jan 13-15, 2001 IC @ Jeff City
#178 - Mar 17-19, 2001 Wardsville
#179 - Jun 9-11, 2001 Sedalia
#180 - Jul 28-30, 2001 Hannibal
#181 - Nov 10-12, 2001 Boonville


HOOT MASS CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 2000
January Jeff City $815.31
March Wardsville $548.00
June Moberly $281.75
July Taos $675.31

REQUESTS TO SERVE ON TEC

Katie Wallace, Samantha Fowler, Maureen Quinn, Tamera Veit, David Lankford, Kathy Haaf.
Thank you for serving Jesus!

TEC 172 "Coolness" Update
All of your hard work has paid off!! Carol Blecha reports that on her return trip from World Youth Day, the six youth traveling with her confided, "Fr. Dan is SO COOL!" They even talked of taking him "clubbing". Congrats on a "coolness" job well done!

NEXT TEC COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE FRIDAY, Nov 17th, 7:15 pm in the meeting room at I. C. Rectory, Jeff City. All TECites are encouraged to attend these meetings. The Core Council needs your input and observations to assist in the decision-making for the future of Mid America TEC. This is where the action is! Be a part of the future of TEC!

November Wheat Letters:
I.C. Parish
Attn: Wheat Letter
1206 E McCarty St.
Jeff City, MO 65101

NEWS ABOUT TEC WEEKEND APPLICATIONS
Deadline for TEC applications are the Monday prior the TEC weekend. We are running into the problem of getting acceptance letters & letters to the candidate's parents in time for the weekend. Keep this in mind as you are recruiting for TEC.

NOW IS THE TIME TO FILL OUT A RTS FORM FOR SERVING IN JAN. & MAR. ADULTS AS WELL AS YOUTH ARE NEEDED. PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING THE DATE OPEN AND ALLOW JESUS TO CALL YOU AS HE NEEDS YOU!

These "RTS's" (Requests to Serve) are on file with the TEC office: Bret Sander, Jim Haaf, Calista Parkinson, Lisa Sander, Mary Jo Hancock, Lindsay Benson, Jasmine Rustemeyer, Jean Lubich, Julie Oppermann, Jami Dubbert, Jo Gately, Katie Kehoe, Toni Struemph, Kristin Hoskins, Aaron Dunn, Kim Boessen, Beth Pope, Colleen Dowd, Ryan Lodder, Amanda Haaf, Connie Gerling, Molly Blanton, Katie Kuster

CORE COUNCIL NOMINEES ARE NEEDED!
SEE ENCLOSED FORM FOR MORE DETAILS!!

TEC 176 has 20+ candidates signed up at the writing of the newsletter. Begin your wheat now!

MAIL YOUR TEC #176 WHEAT LETTER TODAY!!
Remember to write a general letter to the whole weekend before the personal ones!

Timothy Armbruster News

The TEC community received an invitation to Timothy's "Definitive Incorporation" with the Society of the Precious Blood (this was his formal commitment to the community) which occurred October 27th. He is also making plans for his deacon ordination set for December 17th to be held at Sacred Heart Parish in Sedalia. His priesthood ordination will be sometime next year either late summer or early fall. Please keep this TEC friend in your prayers.

Dear TEC 175,
So much has happened since we were together in Taos last July! Many of you have started new jobs, gotten a big portion of your first semester under your belt and have just gone on to live life. And yet I know (judging from my email) you have not forgotten one another! There is something precious and sacred in knowing that three days spent together have formed friendships to last a lifetime!
How wonderful it is to know that the words of our theme song have taken root in your hearts, for we truly are one Body in Christ! As I challenged you on Go Day, now is the time to share in the larger Body of Christ in TEC by doing wheat for TEC 176 as so many did for you! I encourage you to write a wheat letter to TEC 176 and be Christ to them by welcoming them into this Body. I am more than confident that you will effectively express His love to them for I saw it in your faces when we said goodbye.
I hope to see many of you at the hoot in Salisbury!
In His Warm Love, Paula Sanning

TEC Council Meeting Minutes from July 28th….
Steve Maxwell was introduced as the new Core Council member filling the vacancy of Colleen Dowd. Carolyn Mullins was introduced as the new TEC Secretary….. Paula Sanning made the report of TEC 175 - facilities were wonderful, great candidates. The wheat team was superb and she felt that their "speaking when spoken to" made them less of a distraction. The wheat team served the Agape meal and had their own table for this meal. They also did not join in the discussion. Hoot was very well attended and it was commented on how many priests were there (bless you guys!)…. No one has been tapped to direct the November weekend or any 2001 …. The TEC 25th Anniversary Celebration will be in 2002 …. Discernment needs to be held again this fall, the date of October 29 was set for this …. A fall training workshop has been set for September 17th, Paula Sanning offered to lead this workshop.

DID YOU KNOW ---
….The National TEC and Koinonia Convention will be held in Evansville, Indiana next year in June?

….The crucifix which hangs in our conference room has a wooden corpus. This crucifix originally hung in a chapel at Washington University and was a double-sided crucifix - it had a corpus on each side. It was given to Fr. John Whitely who removed one corpus for use in the UM-Rolla Newman Center and donated the wooden crucifix to MA TEC!

…. The podium used on the TEC weekend was made in 1984 by a TECite from Boonville, Alan Lammers, in his shop class in high school.

THIS MAY BE YOUR LAST NEWSLETTER...
Please send $3.00 with your name and address to the TEC office to keep your newsletter coming. Renewals are due every year upon the anniversary of your 1st TEC as a candidate or observer.

The newsletter is written several weeks before each TEC weekend. YOU ARE WELCOMED to send letters, prayer requests, original poems, news items, etc. to be included in your newsletter. Send whatcha got to: Newsletter, Mid America TEC, 1206 E. McCarty St., Jefferson City, MO 65101 or email to: jdarc@webtv.net

Marica Bibb Carol Blecha Kristan Buechter Christina Cearlock
Aaron Dunn Duane Evers Leann Forck Amanda Haaf
Larry & Joyce Hildebrand Emily Holtzclaw Kristin Hoskins Lisa Hustead
Kelli Jones Carolyn Koenigsfeld Daniel Leonatti Sandra Luebbering
Jackie McCauslin Kim Merchant Aaron Rackers Chris Riebold
Kenneth Rippetoe Ceceilia Sander Barry Schaller Lisa Schillers
Meredith Schumacher Rhonda Schumann Lee & Christina Siler Sommer Skinner
Linda Sommers Greg Van Boening

CORE COUNCIL NOMINATIONS
EVERY TECITE NEEDS TO READ THIS:

Included with this newsletter is a recommendation form which the TEC Council would like for you to complete and return.

Please pray and complete the form and return to Lee Menz (her address is on the form) no later than NOVEMBER 15th.

This information was emailed out and not one nomination was returned!

As the form states we need youth representatives as well as adults! Look around you and the people you have served with on TEC. Whom do you feel would be good in helping lead TEC into the new millennium? Just take a few minutes and complete this form (you may submit up to three names - married couples count as one).

If you like, you may EMAIL the necessary information to Lee Menz (her address is on the form). Your name is required.

ALL CURRENT CORE COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL BE DISCERNED AGAIN THIS YEAR! IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE CURRENTLY ON THE CORE COUNCIL AND WISH FOR THEM TO BE DISCERNED, THEY MUST BE RE-NOMINATED!

This is a very important process for our TEC center. Please take a few moments to let your voice be heard.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!