CHIC events on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville begin Sunday morning with a welcome party and conclude with the Thursday evening worship service. Roughly 6,000 students and adult volunteers are expected to participate in this year’s event.
Speakers at the worship services include Bart Campolo and Efrem Smith. Popular Christian bands appearing at the event include Salvador, The Afters, and GRITS.
Each day, Covenant News Service will publish stories as part of the daily online news report at Covenant Online News. The stories will cover evening worship services, various event activities, and include general features on young people attending CHIC as well as adult volunteers. Staff writer Stan Friedman will be reporting from Knoxville with contributions from editor Don Meyer and others. For those who do not want to miss any of the coverage, sign up for the free Covenant news headline email service at Covenant Newswire.
A second source of information will be a special CHIC blog supported by numerous volunteer writers. The blog, which will be updated throughout each day, will be found as part of the CHIC website at CHIC Blog. The link is also available from the home page of the Covenant website. Photographs from the event also will be posted on the CHIC website, as will downloadable podcasts of portions of the CHIC worship services.
Residents of Covenant Retirement Communities (CRC) will be kept abreast of CHIC activities through special reports prepared by Lloyd Ahlem, who first began writing the special reports designed for older adults during CHIC 2003. CHIC leaders asked him to write for this year’s event as well.
A lot of the CRC residents want to know about the CHIC event because they have grandchildren or other relatives attending, Ahlem says. “I try to capture the feeling and the mood.” He hopes it will be possible to set up a means by which senior adults and students can develop “pen-pal” relationships.
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