Halloween Party

A Spooktacular Success!

I would like to start with a big thank you to all of those who helped make our Halloween Party a fun and wonderful event. Between the doughnut eating contest, the candy corn race, wink-wink murder, mummy wrapping and random dancing, there was a lot to do. Thank you for your help!

This year we played a game called Methodist And Really Incredible Other People Acting Ridiculous Together At Youth-Group (M.A.R.I.O. P.A.R.T.A.Y!) We split into four teams and tried to get as many points as possible. This included playing mini-games, performing task dictated by chance cards and Bowser chance cars, and singing Karaoke. 

The goal of the night was to continue to build a group of young people that can work together to accomplish great things. To this end, we read the story of the Ghouled Samaritan, a tale about helping others no matter who they are. If you had fun at the Halloween Party, please sign up for our Food Drive coming up soon. Click here for more info on that.

Bellow is the full text of "The Ghouled Samaritan"

Once Upon a time in the village of Graveyard town in the land O Halloween there lived a little ghoul. He was scary and grotesque and was very capable of scaring just about anyone he wanted to scare. In fact, he was known as the ugliest ghoul of them all and possessed all the necessary characteristics you would want in a good ghoul. On Halloween night, he would spend most of his time scaring little children, but in the off-season, which was 364 days of the years (365 on leap years) he would spend his time scaring the other inhabitants of the Halloween land. In fact all of the villages in Halloween land would spend the off-season trying to scare each other and out-do the other villages. And the biggest rival of Graveyard town was the village next door, Tombville. Nothing made our ghoul happier than to scare the inhabitants of Tombville and send them crying home to their mummies…

On most days, he would find a bush that was covered in shadows and wait for an unsuscpecting Tombvillian to walk by, then he would jump out and scream at them. It was a classic scare and rather simple, but it was very effective and achieved the desired result. However, on this particular day, things became more complicated. As our little ghoul was hiding in the bushes, he saw a mummy walking up the road, but instead of being happy and skipping down the road like most mummies, this mummy was already crying and seemed very sad. Before it got the bush where our little ghoul was hiding, the mummy sat down under a tree and started crying ever more loudly. The little ghoul wondered why the mummy was crying and wanted to ask it, but he was unsure of what to do. Just then he saw another mummy walking down the road. Our little ghoul recognized it at once, it was the mummy of king tut! “Surely,” our little ghoul though, “Surely the king will stop and ask this poor mummy what it is wrong.” But upon noticing the crying mummy, the mummy of King Tut walked a little faster and passed by without asking. “Wow, what a mean mummy,” our little ghoul thought. But then he saw another mummy coming down the road and he knew this mummy would stop and ask the crying mummy what was wrong. This was because the mummy skipping down the road was the mummy of a mother. It was a mommy mummy and they wre known throhgout Halloween Lan as the most compassionate of the all the creatures. But upon noticing the crying mummy, the mommy mummy crossed over to the other side of the road and skipped by even faster.

Our little ghoul could not believe it, mummies were supposed to help each other, and two of the most respected mummies just walked right by and fellow mummy in need. Our little ghoul could not stand it. So instead of sacring the crying mummy, he walked over and asked it what was wrong. Our little ghoul and the crying mummy ended up talking for hours and hours about allt he issues a young creature faces in the Land of Halloween. Our little ghoul cheered it up and even told it a few funny jokes like, why the skeleton couldn’t cross the road and who Frankenstein took to the school dance. And together they learned that it is ok to compete with one another, but when someone is in need, you should try and help them out.