Join The Turn for Dinner & Lasertag TONIGHT (http://bit.ly/98aCFZ)

Bring your friends and come have a blast with The Turn in Memphis tonight! We’ll do some dinner together, play some lasertag (and lots more), and enjoy general frivolity in the grand city of Memphis. All the details about times, locations, cost, caravanning and more are below!

Lasertag Details

Cost

Time

• We have the lasertag part reserved from 7-8pm, so be there a bit before 7pm and be ready to get your laser tagged! (Details below)

Optional Dinner Plans @ Pei Wei Asian Diner

A group of us are leaving at 4:15pm to go eat dinner at Pei Wei first. We will meet at the Blue Coast parking lot off Stadium at 4:15pm today and caravan from there. That will put us at Pei Wei around 5:25-5:30. We’ll eat and hang for a bit, then leave from there for a 15 minute drive out to the lasertag place.

Pei Wei Address: 1680 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104-3768. Phone: (901) 722-3780

For those NOT Joining us for Dinner…

Meet at the Blue Coast parking lot off Stadium at 6pm and caravan from there. If you need a ride, you can correspond (IE beg) via this event (just reply with “Yes I’m coming” and then add an emotional plea via the comment box…or just text your friends and ask…or just hide in the trunk of their car…or hitchhike…or start walking now, you’ve got time).

Golf & Games Family Park: 5484 Summer Avenue, Memphis, TN 38134 (click “Map It” under address to see map for directions at http://bit.ly/98aCFZ)

Cool Lasertag Trivia that Will Make You Cool if You Know It…

• Evidently, there are different brands of lasertag, kind of like shoes
• “Lasertron” is the most popular brand of lasertag in the world. And wouldn’t you know it, just our luck, the place we’re going uses the most popular brand of lasertag in the UNIVERSE!
• Did you know that lasertag aficionados use words like “double-deck?” The place we’re going has a “double-decked Lasertag arena, the largest in the mid-south.”
• Were you aware that lasers need software updates? The place we’re going boasts “the most current version of Lasertron available, the LT-11.5!” Trust me, the LT-11.5 is a WICKED UPDATE to the previous version LT-11. The “.5″ update makes all the difference or we wouldn’t be going!!!!!
• Did you know that there are people in the world that think it’s cool to watch cool lasertag games being played? The place we’re going says, “Just want to watch? Come have a seat at our observation window.” Now you’re cool!

They also have…

• The Sky Trail: nine elements of horizontally strung cables, ropes and boards that create obstacles or challenges. The obstacles and challenges are strung between support structures at a 12 feet height.
• Putt-Putt: 3 courses; 54 championship holes of Putt-Putt Golf.
• Go-karts
• Batting cages
• Large game room
• Driving Range

College adults, come suspend (hang out) at the Fowler’s from 7 ish–10pm ish TONIGHT, Monday Mar 8th. We’ll play games, watch a movie, talk…you know, hang out. We’ll have the coffee brewing and something sweet to fill your belly. Bring a friend and come on.

3-on-3 World Cup Soccer (football) Tournament tonight! Bring a team or come by yourself and we’ll load you up (FYI NO TALENT is required to participate, but may be required to win said tournament).

Other World Cup Games (Non-Soccer Players)

Other WORLD CUP games tonight: Nerts, Toss Up, Cheering, Poker, Ghetto Uno, Puzzle Champs. And of course, our infamous FABULOUS PRIZES!

Tonight at 8:30pm, Fellowship. Bring some friends!

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Calling all Internationals and Americans!

Come play in The Turn’s International three-on-three World Cup Soccer (football) tournament, Wednesday February 24th at 8:30pm and represent your country. Show up by yourself, or with your own team of 3 (guys or gals).

Last year saw China vs USA. Who will it be this year?

Please let us know ahead of time if you need a ride.

Click Here for Full Details and Directions

Join Us for our Chinese New Year Party.

Last year, we had a blast. So this year, we’ve got another great evening planned with our Chinese friends to celebrate our second annual Chinese New Year with them, Saturday, February 13th at 7pm. Come enjoy some great food, traditional Chinese games, and learn more about their culture as we share in this great celebration with them.

We could also use help giving rides and getting our friends to and from campus! Let us know by saying you yes on the Item ”I can help with transportation…” below.

Don’t miss out The Turn’s awesome Spring Retreat on Fri Mar 12 and Sat Mar 13.

We’ll be heading to Memphis to join several other universities for The Rising, an urban retreat for the emerging generation that combines the best parts of a teaching conference with unique “hands-on” opportunities to experience and serve.

Check Out Who’ll Be There

• Carlos Whittaker (Check his recent release on iTunes)
• Lecrae and the Reach label artists: Sho Baraka, Trip Lee, Tedashii (check out videos below)
• Bryon Loritts (Teaching Pastor, Fellowship Memphis)
• Adam Thomason (Associate Pastor @ The Village Church with Matt Chandler)
• and more

Details

New Spring Ongoing Dialogue about Sex

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Join us as we begin an ongoing dialogue about The Birds & The Bees…and Calvary’s Tree. This won’t be so much a series of talks as it will be an ongoing dialogue where we explore our topic together.

• What is the relationship between God and sex?
• Why should you care if God does or does not have any relationship to how we view sex?
• Does Jesus offer any instruction beyond a list of do’s and don’ts?
• Does it all just boil down to some ancient religious or modern moralistic instructions or is there an entirely different way to relate God and sex?

Join Us Tonight

Join us as we begin an ongoing dialogue together, tonight at 8:30pm. Bring a friend, this will be very interesting…to say the least!

Turn Christmas Party TONIGHT, 8:30pm

Get your studying done early so that you can party with The Turn tonight (and blast people with nerf guns). Here’s what you need to know…

White Elephant Griswald Christmas Party: Details and Directions @ 8:30

• Come dressed up in the style of the Giswold Christmas from National Lampoons Holiday classic, Christmas Vacation
• Bring one wrapped white elephant gift per person to exchange
  • A white elephant gift is any item that you do NOT purchase, and that you currently own/possess that you could give to someone else
  • It is often humorous in nature
  • “Wrapping” can be creative and resourceful
  • Ideas include, old CDs, dryer lint, expired coupons, tacky hat, used notebook, etc.
  • If, due to finals, you are in the mood to study and learn, (Get Info Here )
• As usual, there will be a fabulous prize for the best-dressed!

Twas the Night Before Christmas and All Thru The Church, Everything Flying was Made Out of Nerf Nerf Gun Battle

After we party together, we are going to shoot one another with nerf guns!

• Please bring your own nerf gun(s) and nerf bullets (NO other guns are welcome on the premises)
• We will turn the lights out, so you may want to bring your own luminary device
• You will get shot, so you may want to bring your own protective eye gear
• Leave your small children at home, as “a battle” is not an appropriate environment for kids
• All Men AND Women are welcome to play. In particular, we will berate, taunt, jokingly mock, jeer, sneer, scorn, tease and gnash our teeth at ANY who do not participate in the nerf gun battle (and this will most certainly include women)
  • As a special note, our military now includes women. Therefore all historical precedent for NOT fighting as a woman has been removed. You wanted “equal rights”, so come get your equal rights. We’ll be serving them up on a platter for you tonight…in battle!

Summary

• Bring a friend
• Dress like a Griswold
• Bring a white elephant gift
• Bring a nerf gun and nerf bullets
• Say your goodbye’s to friends and loved ones
• Battle to the death

Providing You with a Merry Christmas,
The Turn

Come JOIN Us TONIGHT for The Turn’s Suspend (Hang) @ Fowler’s

College adults, come suspend (hang out) at the Fowler’s from 7-10pm tonight (Mon, Dec 7) for the last time in 2009! We’ll play games, watch a movie, talk…you know, hang out. We’ll have the coffee brewing and something sweet to fill your belly. Bring a friend and let us know you’re coming via The City or via The Plaza (if you don’t have an account on The City but you’re on FB).

Ho,Ho,Hope to see you tonight!

What’s the big deal with God and Sex!

The Turn will REALLY be mixing it up on campus TONIGHT as we address the winners of our Text Message Voting campaign. We asked and you responded. Now come join us as we explore the answers together. You won’t want to miss tonight, as it’s a doozy!

November/December’s Monthly Mix Question: What’s the big deal with God and sex?

Text the KEYWORD to 99503 to cast your vote

Join us in the Spring Room on the 3rd floor of the Union, 8:30pm

Join us TONIGHT at 8:30pm on the 3rd floor of the Union in the Spring Room as we discuss the two questions that you voted the most. Bring a friend–cuz this is gonna be “interesting”–and come hang out with us as we “mix it up.”