Monday, August 15, 2011

Dive In Movie!

Are you ready to dive into a new year of EYC Smiley? Our first official EYC event of the school year will be a Dive-In movie at Good Shepherd Episcopal church's pool THIS Sunday (August 21st) from 5-7:30 p.m.. We are meeting at Good Shepherd (e-mail me if you need directions), and pick-up from Good Shepherd will be at 7:30 p.m. Please let me know if you're coming!

Mission Trippers Smiley! Our Mission Trip Wrap-Up (with Slide show and youth speakers) is THIS Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in Leatherbury Hall, during the final Summer Breakfast. Wear your St Mark's Tie-dyed T's! The Wrap-Up is for the whole congregation, so please come to support the EYC Mission Trip participants.

LOTS of
pics from last week's 7th Grade Camp Smiley! Thanks to all of you who volunteered your time last week to help. We start out with some fun moments in the Youth Center...




Random Holiday Free smiley Face Courtesy of www.Freesmileys.org: Thursday (8/18) is Bad Poetry Day! Roses are red, Violets are blue...

EYC Kickoff is NEXT Sunday, August 28th (Rally Day), from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Youth Center Smiley! Come to play games, eat dinner, and discover our EYC theme verse for the 2011-12 school year.

There will be a Parents' Meeting from 5:30-6:00 p.m. on August 28th in Grace House. At the meeting, we'll go over the Fall Calendar and answer questions about St Mark's EYC.

We still need more Rally Day Games volunteers Smiley! The two shifts are 11 a.m.-Noon and Noon-1 p.m., and this year's games are: Bounce House, Dunk Booth, Water Slide, Cake/Cookie Walk, Face Painting, and Fishing Pond. Sign up for your shift today!

More Camp pics from the Bridge and our game of Balloon Pop:





Our annual trip to Universal Studios for Rock the Universe (RTU) is the weekend of September 9th-11th Smiley! This year's RTU price is $175 per person (which includes tickets and hotel), and $75 will secure your spot today. The final $100 per person will be due by Sunday, August 28th (Rally Day)! Check out this year's RTU lineup here.

Save the Date Smiley: New Beginnings (a Junior High renewal weekend similar to Happening) will be held at Camp Weed the weekend of November 11-13! Look for more details soon...

Some fun Camp pictures from Sulzbacher...





Quote of the Week :
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson

The final pictures include underwater camera pics, picking up trash in Stockton Park, and a group shot of 7th Grade Camp and helpers. Don't forget that God loves you, and so do I
Smiley!





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