Tour of Fire Department Rescheduled

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you are all staying warm and enjoying the beauty of new fallen snow.  The new year brings some exciting new events with youth group and we will start next week with a tour of the Falmouth Fire Department.  Meet at the church at 4:00 pm next Sunday (January 12, 2014).  We will be back at the church by 5:30 pm.  Hope to see you there!

Bull's Eye!!

Our group of young archers invaded the Monument Beach Sportsman's Club indoor archery range for an evening of lessons and fun.  Gil Silvia, our resident Archer and member of the club guided us through safe and proper shooting techniques.

The evening was a great success and we managed to put more holes in the targets than the walls and the floor.  We even got to shoot at a moving target that features a picture of a dragon.

A big thank you to all who helped out!

Wii Bowling Lots of Fun

Our JWUMC Youth Group News Team was on hand to capture some of the action at Atria Woodbriar last weekend.  In the video, you can see one of our youth bowl a strike and hear the cheers from the crowd.

Besides Wii Bowling, there were plenty of drinks, popcorn, and cookies to go around, compliments of the chefs at Atria Woodbriar.  It was great to see so many people of so many different ages playing, laughing, and cheering together.  It was a great time, and we look forward to a rematch in the spring!

We "Can" do it. And we did!

the youth kneel behind their bounty of food

No amount of cold or slight drizzles could deter the determination of the JWUMC Youth to collect food last Sunday.  After waiting out a torrential downpour by eating chips, hot queso, and popcorn, we hit the streets.

We filled over three large boxes with canned and boxed food that will be donated to the Falmouth Service Center.  If you missed us, please join us this Thursday for Falmouth Eats Together from 4-6pm.  A great event held at our church.  The youth will be staying after to help clean up.

Happy Halloween!

brains...

Our annual tradition continues with yet another spooktacular Halloween Party.  Lots of characters showed up for the festivities and we had a fun time playing games, completing a group mad libs, wrapping each up in toilet paper, eating pizza and mini-marshmallows, and playing a rousing game of zombies versus humans.  Join us next year for all the Halloween fun you can handle, and costume prizes!

But if you can't wait that long, join us this Sunday, November 10, at 3:30 pm for our second food drive of the year.  More info on the events page.

we are a scary group

Chairs and Puppets!

a few youth in front of
some chairs they helped set up

On Thursday, the youth group helped clean up after hundreds of people were served during Falmouth Eats Together.  Thank you to all the youth that helped out, it was very appriciated!

conversations in gibberish

Then, during our regulat meeting on Sunday, we had the pleasure of doing a puppetry workshop with Jacek Zuzanksi of Dream Tale Puppets.  We learned how to make it look like rod puppets were walking, talking and turning around.  We also learned a new language, gibberish.

the youth learn to walk the puppets

This fall and into winter, Jacek will be putting on a puppetry workshop and production of a traditional folk nativity play to be performed around Chirstmas.  You can find more information here or contact Jacek at info@dreamtalepuppets.org of (508) 495-1251.

We Found It!

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the youth explore a box full of treasures

The youth group had a great time walking through Beebe Woods and finding two of the many geocaches hid there.  Geocaching is a worldwide game that can and is played by people of all ages.  Folks hide "caches" or boxes in the forest, in trees, near ponds, in cities, and anywhere else that might be a cool place to visit.  Then they post the coordinates online for other people (like us) to go and find them.

a group picture before we head into Beebe Woods

Part of the game is taking and leaving prizes.  We found two boxes while we were out and one of them had lots of stuff in it.  In exchange for taking a few plastic rings and such, we left a bunch of colorful plastic coins.  We also left cards with, "Job 12:8" written on them.  The cards were made by us out of recycled paper and the bible verse we are directing people to says, "speak to the earth and it will teach you."

We all had a great time, and managed to find a few pieces of trash to pack out with us along the way.  For more information on geocaching or the youth group, email Jeremy at jwygfalmouth@gmail.com.  Our next event will be helping out with Falmouth Eats Together at 6pm on October 10th.  Check out the events page to learn more.

a screen shot of the geocaching.com website
(the smiley faces are the caches we have already found)