Check out a few samples of one group's eNewsletters:

YOUTH GROUP ARTICLE 5/23/04

Happy Spring to all! It has been a joyous and busy month for your Youth Group! Both the Senior and Junior High youth have been busy fund-raising, mingling with you all throughout the month. Thank you for all of your support and encouragement.

Something to Start With Article for Winter 2004

Do You Have the Time?

I'm surrounded by calendars. At home our refrigerator is plastered with soccer schedules, weekly school lunch menus and school council meeting dates. We have a calendar at home with the sole purpose of listing extended family birthdays. A school calendar identifies the early dismissal and no school days. We even have a calendar that tells us when the next Schwan day will be.

"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." Chances are you see that brief message countless times whenever you're behind the wheel. Most times, I'm guessing, without noticing it much. After two weeks of that phrase's absence on the vehicle I drive most often, I'm now seeing it once again.

Article for Spring 2004 youth newsletter:

Staring something new is always difficult. What will people think? How will it go over? What if it fails? Can we keep up the momentum?

My family moved into a new home late last fall. One of the disadvantages of a move at that time of year is that aside from the few occasions for shoveling snow this winter and the many occasions for raking leaves last fall, we spent very little time getting acquainted with our new yard. It's been fun this spring to discover signs of new life - tulips, hostas, flowering trees - where for the last several months we've only experienced brown grass, dry soil and bare limbs.