Come home to SOS!
Friday, September 16 & Saturday, September 17, 2022
Calling all SOS Summer Staff & SOS Academy alumni!
It’s a “best of SOS” weekend for those of us who love it best. Memories, faces, quirks, acronyms, traditions and more!
We love you. We want you back.
An element of this summer that felt so special was the realization that God’s work through SOS is incredibly wide and so beautiful and nearly unmeasurable save the stories that we each carry.
It’s you.
The no-words nods when someone says that God used their time at SOS to change deep pieces of their heart and mind. The memories of homeowner partners blessing and loving team leaders and carrying them through hard days. The work that happens to hearts when invested in deep and meaningful community.
Come and celebrate those things with us.
Alumni RSVP details:
$60/single alumni registration.
Bringing your family? GOOD! Select the $40/family add-on fee.
The fee covers lodging at SOS, meals, and activities for the weekend.
Join us for some or all!
What’s the EBC?
The Endless Bucket Club is a group of Summer Staff and/or SOS Academy alumni who support SOS with monthly gifts of $5 and up.
A perk of EBC memberships? The reunion is totally free of charge for EBC members (and spouse and kids).
What’s the weekend schedule?
Friday, September 16
6:00 - 8:30 pm: Family Picnic and Party
Big family party! Central BBQ for dinner, kids’ activity, SOS throwback activity, and a bit of SOS story telling from some of our dearest voices.
6:00 - 7:00 pm Picnic Dinner
6:30 - 7:00 pm TBA KIDS ACTIVITY
7:00 - 7:30 pm TBA SOS TRADITION
7:30 - 8:30 pm SOS Stories
Saturday, September 17
8:00 - 11:30 am: SOS Traditions & Group Picture
We’re bringing back some of the familiar, but not so early in the morning! Join us for some SOS construction activities and see if it those roofing skills come back! Great for families and kiddos — we’ll be eager to impart some skills in the next generation of Summer Staff candidates.
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Morning Meeting with Big Dog
9:30 am Parking Lot Party and Group Picture
10 - 11:30 am Construction Training & Fun
12:00 - afternoon: Choose Your Own Memphis Adventure
Optional lunch at SOS, but don’t let us keep you if Huey’s is calling your name! We’ve left the lunch hour and afternoon open and hope that you’ll pick your Memphis favorites and go and enjoy them. We’ll put together some suggested activities to encourage group events and outings. Let us know if you’re spearheading one of your own!
12 - 12:30 pm Optional lunch at SOS
Afternoon Enjoy Memphis!
6:00 - 9:00 pm: Dinner & Chapel
We’ll fill up that beloved cafeteria, load up our plates with Gus’ fried chicken and sides, and welcome you to join us for dinner together. We’ll follow that with a chapel full of music and teaching as we worship our good, good God together as the SOS family.
6:00 - 6:45 pm Dinner at SOS
7:15 - 9:00 pm Chapel
Sunday, September 18
Nothing official for Sunday, but we’ll provide a continental breakfast for our dear dorm dwellers and encourage all to attend a local church service. The easiest to find? House Church is having their monthly Celebration Service in the SOS chapel at 10am. Enjoy a day in Memphis as you wish. We’ll close up the building at 4pm.
Join us as you’re able! The weekend is entirely a la carte!
But, wait! There’s more!
YOU are now invited to invite! Find your people and make sure they’re there! We’ll be sure to celebrate the Summer or Academy class that’s best represented.
The SOS store will be open! Get the family ready for sweater weather with some SOS joggers or long sleeves. Plenty of t-shirts, of course! We’ve got Spring Break and Summer Camp designs from the last few years that are priced to move.
And an exclusive SOS Alumni Reunion shirt will be yours! It’s currently in the works from a talented graphic designer/SOS alum and we’re eager to print up and share!
More details are ever forthcoming! Need an A to your Q? Contact Philip or Ally !
Chateau SOS has vacancy!
We’d love to welcome you to stay at SOS! Are we talking The Ritz? No...but our mattresses are both antimicrobial and waterproof. The Ritz ain’t got that action!
We’ll open the camper bunkhouses for families to stay in pods: Moms and daughters in the Women’s Camper Dorm and dads and sons in the Men’s Camper Dorm. We’ve got the flex dorms that we’ll reserve for families of babies or other families best suited with a bit more privacy (aka: a door).
Staff dorms will be open for adults staying sans kiddos.
...and you’re welcome to make your own accommodations for the weekend, but we can’t guarantee creaky bunks and squeaky mattresses anywhere else, so please recognize the risk you’ll be assuming in doing so.