Upcoming Training Opportunities

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Location: TBD

Note: Classes listed below are tentative and subject to change.

Email from Potomac Conference will be sent out prior to each date confirming classes, date, time, and location

*Master Guide classes will be managed by Area Coordinators and offered in Spanish and English, 6 times per year

^ΔPLA classes – the goal is to offer in both Spanish and English but this will be determined on a class by class basis

^PIA classes will be offered in English only

Conference PF Leadership Training Day

• Date: Sunday, March 1, 2020
• Classes will be taught from the following AYMT Certification tracks:
  • Basic Staff Training (BST) (English & Spanish)
  • Director Staff Training Certification (English & Spanish)
  • Leadership Certification
  • Staff Leadership Certification

PATHFINDER OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE  is an outdoor adventure for Explorers to teen pathfinders.  The first event will be on:

 October 10-13, 2019

You will find more information on this event in the documents below.

Backpack Trip Information 2019

Backpack Trip Registration 2019 (fillable)

This site is under development.

This message is in English and Spanish.

Directors,

This is to make sure that you are planning to have at least one vehicle at Chosen Camporee that can be parked in the outside parking lots and driven off campus.

There are several reasons this is necessary:
1 – You will need to pick up your food at area grocery stores, Costco, etc.  There are no grocery deliveries to campsites during camporee.

2 – You may need to take someone to urgent care or the emergency room.  If someone gets transported in an ambulance, you will need to have a vehicle to get a club representative to the hospital.

3 – The weather may change and you may need to go out into town to purchase tarps or other emergency supplies which you did not bring with you.

If you cannot have a vehicle yourselves, please coordinate with another club that does have transportation which can be driven off site BEFORE you arrive in Oshkosh.

Also, please be reminded that the majority of your food needs to be picked up and at the camp by 7pm on Tuesday because that is when the gates close

Pastor Sherilyn O’Ffill

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Este mensaje es para asegurarnos de que usted está planificando tener por lo menos un vehículo que se estacionara fuera del Camporee Chosen para poder moverse fuera del campamento.

Hay varias razones por la cual esto será necesario:

1. Necesitará ir a recoger la comida en los supermercados, Costco, etc…  No habrá ningún tipo de entrega a domicilio mientras usted este en el Camporee Chosen.
2. Puede ser que necesite llevar a alguien a la sala de emergencia de un hospital.  Si alguien es trasladado en ambulancia, usted necesitara un vehículo para que el representante del club llegue al hospital.
3. El clima puede cambiar y usted puede tener la necesidad de llegar hasta la cuidad y las tiendas para conseguir carpas u otros artículos de emergencia que quizás no tenga consigo.

Si usted no puede tener un vehículo para su uso, por favor coordine ANTES de llegar a Oshkosh con otro club que tenga un vehículo en las afueras del área del camporee para que usted pueda utilizar ese vehículo en caso de que sea necesario.

También, recuerde que la mayoría de la comida necesita ser recogida y estar en el campamento antes de las 7pm el martes porque es cuando las puertas/portones del campamento cerraran.

Pastor Sherilyn O'Ffill
Associate Director, Youth Department
POTOMAC CONFERENCE CORPORATION
of Seventh-day Adventists
606 Greenville Avenue | Staunton, VA 24401
office 540-886-0771 mobile 707-812-3921

Hello Directors and Potomac Pathfinders,

On Sunday, we had a full house at the Vienna SDA church for the last director’s meeting to be held before the Oshkosh International Camporee.  In this post is a PDF of the presentation that was given. A lot of important information was shared the leaders that attended.  Please review so you won’t miss a thing.

Director Meeting 2019

Nesco Lettsome Jr.
Specialty Coordinator for Communications
potomac.comm@gmail.com
301-532-8533

Welcome to our Area Coordinator’s Communique

The purpose of this Communique is to
a keep communication between Area
Coordinators and Directors/Staff. This
will be use to educate and as a reminder.

Starting next Pathfinder year (July
2019) we will continue to send this
communique on a regular basic depending
on the needs, also this
Newsletter will be use to inform you
and your club about any updated information
from the conference.

We would love to hear from you on
the challenges and concerns you may
have throughout the year. We will try
to address them.

AC Communique April

Bienvenidos a nuestro Comunicado de los Coordinadores de Área

El propósito de este comunicado
es mantener una comunicación
entre los coordinadores de área y
los directores/personal de apoyo.
Esto lo usaremos para educar y
como recordatorios.

Comenzando el próximo año
(Julio 2019) nosotros seguiremos
enviando este comunicado de
manera regular dependiendo de la
necesidad del mismo. También
será utilizado para mantenerles al
corriente de las noticias mas recientes,
cambios y actualizaciones
de la conferencia.

Nos encantaría escuchar de ustedes,
cuales son sus retos y preocupaciones
a lo largo del año y
haremos todo lo posible por contestarles.

Calling all Potomac TLTs!

Spring 2019 TLT Convention will be a lock-in held at the Fredericksburg SDA Church, March 9 & 10. Below are PDF files of the registration to print, fill out and email back and the schedule for your information. Please respond soon so we can have a headcount for planning supplies and food purchases.

2019 TLT Lock-In Registration

2019 TLT Lock-In Schedule

We will begin Sabbath afternoon  at 3 PM with workshops, supper, sundown worship, and, as always, Super Fun Something in the evening.  We will be staying overnight in the gym, so bring your sleeping bags and pads.  We’ll have breakfast Sunday morning, continue with the remaining workshops and be finished by 12:30 PM.  There will be warm fuzzies as usual and your favorite workshop facilitators.

In this Oshkosh year, we are trying to help conserve your funds to attend that life-changing event.  So this TLT event is only $40 per person and includes Sabbath Supper, Sunday Breakfast and a sack lunch.

Please register now to facilitate our planning to make this event special for your teen leaders. Make sure your TLTs remember to bring their binders so they can get signed off on their workshops.

We are excited to spend some time with our awesome Potomac TLTs.  See you soon!

Martha Kiger-Nelson

Potomac Head TLT Coordinator