Lock In Pics

We had a great Lock-In this year and a big thank you goes out to all those that helped make it happen.  We had a lot of fun!  Here are a few pictures from the night:

Gil from http://mobeach2.intuitwebsites.com/Archery.html showed us how to shoot.

Officer Maguire stopped by to show us his car and other gadgets her uses on the job.

Jacek showed us around his puppet workshop.

Jack and a Giant from http://www.dreamtalepuppets.org/index.html

Lock-In

This Saturday (June 29th) night will be our kick off to celebrating summer with a church lock-in.  From 5 pm until midnight, we will be on the church grounds, having fun and growing in faith.

Activities will include archery, a tour of Yasik's puppet shop, a scripture lesson, flashlight tag, food, and other fun surprises.

Bring a friend, and help kick off summer vacation right!

Another Successful Food Drive

June 9th was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed the lovely weather and the wonderful neighbors around our church with our summer canned food drive.  We chatted with lots of folks and found many of them outside enjoying the sunshine or tending their garden.

counting the food we collected

We even met a family that has a plot in our community garden.  We really are blessed with a group of caring and giving neighbors.

The youth did a wonderful job of representing the church and we managed to collect 32 canned items and 21 boxes and bags of beans, rice and other non-perishable foods.

It was a good thing we had our trusted "unicorn," the name we have given to the wagon we use to carry all that food.  Thanks to all who helped collect, all who gave, and all those who prayed for us from home.

Final Food Drive of the Year

Jeremy is back from his sailing adventure with SEA and just in time for our summer canned food drive.  We will be meeting at the church at 4:00 June 9th, and be done by 5:30.  If you have a wagon, please bring it!

We will also need as many parent volunteers as we can muster in order to cover the most area and collect as much food as we can.

(The canned food drive will be our last meeting of the year.  Over the summer, we will have a late night lock-in on June 29th and a family amusement park trip on July 20th.  Please mark your calendars, more information will be provided at the meeting.)

Bike Fest

Join us this Saturday for Bikefest and Pedal to Parcels.  We will be meeting at Mullen-Hall School with our bikes at 10am.  There we will go through a safety check and practice safe riding techniques.  Then we will pedal to the bike path and go for a short group ride guided by the 300 Committee.  Adults are welcome and encouraged to attend.  It is a great excuse to dust off your bike for the summer.  We will be back at Mullen-Hall around 1pm.

Here is a link to learn more about the events that the town is putting on in honor of bike month: http://www.300committee.org/documents/pedal-to-parcel-final.pdf

Geo-caching Hike

In search of the next cache

Last Sunday was a beautiful day, so we took to the forests of Beebe Woods to try our hand at Geo-caching.  Geo-caching is a game played around the world where people post the coordinates of caches and other people go out and find them.  A cache can be a box full of small toys, or just a log book in a plastic baggy.  Either way, it is a fun way to get outside and go see new places.  Learn more at http://www.geocaching.com/

We found it!

During our hike we found two caches, and earned our very first digital "souvenir," the Massachusetts Sate badge, for finding a cache in Massachusetts.  In all the caches that we found, we left cards of our homemade recycled paper with Job 12:8 and JWUMC Youth written on it.  Whoever finds them can take one and go look up the verse.  But in case you are curious, it is "Speak to the earth, and it will teach you."

Canal Clean Up!

Armed with our "grabbers" the youth picked up lots of trash.

You can rest assured that the bike path along the Cape Cod Canal is a much cleaner place after the Canal Clean-up last Saturday.  JWUMC Youth Group joined forces with a couple dozen other community groups to help Americorp pick up trash and accomplish other service projects throughout the area.

Our group was responsible for about two full bags of trash!  It was a lot of walking, but there were plenty of snacks and we even got pizza for lunch!

But the highlight of the trip was probably finding some crabs beside the canal before we even got started picking up trash.  Thanks to everyone who helped out, and for those of you that weren't able to make it, Americorp will be having this event again next year and we are surely going to participate.  Happy Earth Day everyone!