3/16/10

CRANDALL, GA—Active Adventurers gladly hauled their parents out in the rain to Adventurer Family Fun Day at Cohutta Springs Youth Camp Sunday, March 14.

“It is always a thrill to get together with clubs who have been meeting all year!” says John Swafford, Children’s and Junior Youth Church Ministries director. “When club staff members team together with our office staff we are able to accomplish a tremendously fun event for Adventurers and their families.  More than 800 individuals were in attendance this year.”

The “Lift up the Trumpet” theme was evident as each Adventurer started the day. Worship featured a skit on the life of Jesus that ended with a joyful reunion greeting Jesus in heaven. Children then took their parents from booth to booth (operated by Adventurers) doing a variety of different fun activities including guessing names of Christian songs, decorating a cookie shaped like a trumpet, and running under a parachute when your spiritual gift was called. There were bring-your-own picnic lunches and then games like three legged races in the gymnasium after lunch. The day ended with the announcement of a winner to attend Cohutta Springs Youth Camp free and next year’s Adventurer Family Fun Day poster winner. The winner happens to be the same person, Evelyn Farkas from the Atlanta North Church.

Reita Bandy, McDonald Road Adventurers said of the Family Fun Day, “I think it’s great, I wish the weather would have cooperated so we could have been outside. When I woke up my 8 year old daughter this morning I said, ‘Are you sure you want to go?’ and she said yes and jumped out of the bed. I am glad we came.”

Wade Carpenter, with the Maryville, Tenn. Adventurers added, “It is important to us because we home school. This gives our kids a chance to be involved with everyone else. But you want to give them things in the church that keeps them involved, Pathfinders is great and Adventurers is the first, well now second step.”

Adventurer director from the Collegedale Spanish Church Norma Fernandez said, “Family Fun Days are good because they encourage the kids and show them that they are important to us. We like to bring them to very exciting activities and with a Christian atmosphere.”

Mickey Evans, Duluth Church Adventurers added, “Honestly I wasn’t planning on coming but my daughter, who is seven years old, really wanted to come. This day is an opportunity not just to see the kids in her club but meet the other kids in various clubs in the conference and enjoy herself as well.”

The Adventurer program was created for children in grades 1-4. It is to assist parents in their important responsibilities as a child's primary teachers and evangelizers.  The program aims to strengthen the parent/child relationship and further the child's development in spiritual, physical, mental and social areas.  In this way the church, home and school can work together with the parent to develop a mature, happy child.

By Tamara Wolcott Fisher 

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