Celebrating the Summer....
With just a couple more weeks left of the summer, it's hard to believe it's come so fast...And yet, it always does. But we want to celebrate the great times we've had this summer and there's still plenty left to enjoy! Our remaining events are:
- Girl Swim - This Wednesday 4-8pm at Millersville Pool
- Summer Wake Party - This Sunday, 4-8pm at Bigler Lake
- Man Day Monday - NEXT Monday, 2-4pm, Slip N Slide Baseball
- Fall Parent Gathering - Sunday August 28, 6-7:30pm
We're requesting that if you or your child has any pictures or videos from our summer of activities and want to share them with our group, please email them, put them on disk, or arrange to borrow the youth flash drive to fill it up with memories. Speaking of...here's a look at some of the things we've been up to lately!
Girls Enjoy Backyard Camp-out
By Debbie Burkhardt
July Girls Nite began with dinner around a campfire at the Bigelow home. Sixteen girls & four women enjoyed hot dogs & s'mores cooked over the open fire & great conversation that gave lots of new 7th graders time to get comfortable. The group enjoyed the "Going on a Cruise" game, and Taylor Forbes stumped everyone with "The Stick Game". After hours of fellowship & laughs all headed to the Burkhardt home for an ole'-fashioned backyard camp-out.
The large group of girls shared two tents each surrounded by white lights pitched under the summer stars. Before settling in for the night, the Jr. High tent joined the Sr. High tent for some sleepover games & junk food. They played "The Candy Game", "Spoons", and of course "Truth or Dare". The teens discovered that Allie can really sing, everyone loves Taylor Laughtner, & there is no trail that goes through the Burkhardt woods.
As the night wore on , the Sr. High girls "excused" the silly Jr. High girls so they could settle in & talk. The night had just begun for the younger girls, and 3:00 am found them seeing how far they could frizz their hair out.
Gradually the only sounds were the crickets & the trickling pond water. However 7:00 am came fast & the energetic middle schoolers were up, cleaned up , bags rolled up & giggling as they peeked in at the crashed out older girls.
Everyone enjoyed an 8:00 o'clock breakfast of doughnuts, Pop Tarts, orange juice & chocolate milk. No doubt there would be lots of naps that afternoon.
On Wednesday August 10, we took 30 students and 5 adults up to Community Bible Church for our first ever Water Wars and Worship event. CBC happens to be my father's youth ministry and so it was a night full of fun competition. We split into 9 teams of 10 students, and sent them out to compete in 7 different water games. They would compete against another team in games such as:
- Water Slide Relay (Fastest time)
- Water Balloon Volleyball
- One Base Pool Ball
- Drip-Drip-Drop (Duck-Duck-Goose with water!)
- Slick Tarp Relay Race (See video below!)
- Slip N Slide Kickball
- Fountain Cup Relay
After pounding down pizza, chips and soda (the food line was determined by the winning teams) we enjoyed the worship gifts of the Salt N Light Worship band who shared in music, drama, testimony and sharing from God's Word. It was an awesome night!
