This past Wednesday we had our “Big
Wednesday” at youth group a week early. Since it was the day before Halloween,
we wanted to do something fun. We decided to have a Pumpkin Festival!
As the youth ministry intern, I helped come
up with the plans for the night. J We were praying that the weather
would cooperate, as there was a 100% chance of scattered thunderstorms that
day. Knowing a lot of our plans were outside, we started praying, and God
blessed us by keeping the storms at bay! There was a light drizzle and it was a
bit cool, but not enough to keep us inside. J
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Each
student was instructed to bring a small pumpkin and a large pumpkin. A couple
of guys from church built a huge pumpkin slingshot for the little pumpkins!
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It
got pretty slippery and messy with the mud! We also discovered that horse
apples went much further than the pumpkins. But we had fun doing both!
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Afterward,
we all went inside to warm up and enjoy some good food! We ate pumpkin-shaped
pizzas, pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin
pie bars, orange-colored cake balls, candy corn, hot chocolate,
and hot apple cider.
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Then
we got started on carving the big pumpkins. Some of the kids kept it really
simple, while others had fun getting more elaborate. Most of the high school
boys carved some type of super hero insignia on theirs.
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The
finished pumpkins all lit up!
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It was a really fun evening, and definitely
worth all of the pumpkin guts we had to clean up afterward. J
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