Youth Group Begins Again!

Youth Group Starts This Sunday

A game of "mummy wrap" during our annual Halloween Party

It is a new year and time to start meeting again. This year, we will be meeting every Sunday evening from 4-5pm down in the Youth Room. We have lots of fun events planned for this fall including Geocaching and a Halloween Party. We are also going to do some community service in the form of a canned food drive during the Thanksgiving Season and our live nativity around Christmas. See you soon!

Six Flags was Fun!

by Zoe

The end of a tiring and fun day at the park.

On August 4th, 2014, the JWUMC Youth Group took a road trip to Six Flags New England! At the start of the day, Skylar, Miranda, and Mr.Tags were brave enough to ride The "Bizzaro!" while Milo, Josh, Zoe, Clayton and Tyler rode the Gotham City Gauntlet at least 5 times in a row.  Even though it was really hot, everybody had a blast! (There were misting machines to help us cool off a bit!) 

Getting ready to ride the Buzzsaw

We had a picnic lunch in the shade of sandwiches, veggies, chips, and fruit. Then after lunch we headed down to the water park to refresh and take a cool dip. We rode the Tornado water slide together, went down tube slides and body slides. We played under a big fountain and splashed around in the wave pool. It was a great end to a great day.

Special thanks to our volunteer sponsors, Ms. Tiffany and Ms. Julie. This would not have happened without Mr. Tags, so THANKS Mr. Tags! Six Flags was a great way to spend a summer day with friends!  If you missed Six Flags this time around, you definitely don't want to miss the next trip!

Summer Programs

Summer is Here,

Lets Have Some Fun!

There are plenty of fun and exciting things happening at the church this summer:

Lock-In

July 18

5pm to midnight

Come to the youth room for a night of games, food, movies, and lots of fun.  This is a great event to bring a friend, and lots of energy to.  We will try and stay up until midnight!

Falmouth Bike Lab, Earn-A-Bike

July 7-11

July 21-25

9am to noon

This summer, the FBL will be holding its Earn-A-Bike program where youth can come and learn about bikes and how to ride them.  At the end of the program, youth will have earned a bike that they can take home!  It is a lot of fun and teaches many valuable skills.  Sign up by emailing Mr. Tags at jwygfalmouth@gmail.com. More info at www.falmouthbikelab.blogspot.com.

Field Trip to Six Flags

August 4

All Day

Celebrate the last few weeks of summer freedom with a trip to Six Flags.  We will meet at the church early in the morning and drive to Six Flags for the day.  We had lots of fun last year and even road some big roller coasters!

Cape Cod Puppet Gam

July 8, 15, 22, 29 and Aug 5

4pm

Come and enjoy a puppet show put on by Dream Tale Puppets and other troupes throughout the region.  It's a great event for the whole family and one that will surely make you smile.  More info at www.dreamtalepuppets.org.

Egg Hunt

The Eggs Were Found!

we hid over 1800 eggs

Holy week was a very busy week for us at the church so I apologize for the late post.  But just so you know, our Easter Egg Hunt went great!  We had over 1800 eggs and they were gone is just under 18 minutes!  There were potato sack races before hand and delicious "resurrection rolls" to eat after all the egg hunting was done.  Thanks to all the folks that helped out and to all the youth that stuffed all those eggs!

we had so many eggs, some of them were just "hidden" on the lawn

We Stuffed Over 1,000 Eggs!

Thanks to all the youth and parents that helped stuff Easter Eggs last Sunday.  In two hours, we managed to stuff over 1,000 eggs and eat three large pizzas!  We would also like to thank the good people of John Wesley UMC for donating so much candy.  We had so much candy, Mr. Leonard thought he had died and gone to candy heaven!

Join us this Saturday at 8am to help hide Easter Eggs for the 10am Easter Egg Hunt that is open to the entire community.

Falmouth Eats Together Clean-Up

This Thursday

This Thursday from 5:45 to about 6:15 pm we will be helping the folks from Falmouth Eats Together to put away chairs, move tables around, and generally help clean up.  F.E.T. is an awesome community event that feeds more than 300 people.  Show up between 4 and 6 pm to get a free meal yourself and then stick around to help us clean.  Bring a friend to join in on the food and fellowship!

Caned Food Drive

Chaperons Needed for Canned Food Drive

(Sunday, March 30, 4:00 to 5:30 pm)

We need chaperons for our canned food drive planned for our next meeting.  Chaperons will help lead a group of our youth as we walk around town and ask for food donations.  Our neighbors are very supportive of this mission and typically give generously.  This is a great way to spend some time with our youth and get a little exercise.  The more chaperons we have, the more groups we can have canvasing the neighborhood, and the more food we can collect.  The harder it is to pull our wagon full of cans and boxes, the more accomplished our youth can feel.  Help make this a successful event, email or talk to Jeremy if are willing to help.  

Youth are encouraged to bring a friend as well.  More people usually means more food for the Falmouth Service Center.