Butterfly Farm

This is a repeat for all of you who read your mail from Reynolda's Childrens Ministry, but there will be a trip to the Butterfly Farm for all young kids on September 30th. This is not done through the POPs class, but it is a perfect fit for us. Christal Giese is putting together a trip to All-A-Flutter Butterfly Farm. Directions to the farm are on their site. Please contact Christal at 659-6581 if you want to attend, so she can let you know any additional details.

September 30th at 10:30

• $6 for adults
• $5 for children 2 and older

Image courtesy of Bruce Jennings

Vacation Bible School - Reynolda

Last week Reynolda had their Vacation Bible School. I think I saw everyone from the class there at some point. I hope that your kids enjoyed it as much as Rachel.

As promised, Pastor Chris Lawson posted the closing video from the week. I think it was hard to find on the Reynolda site, so I have re-posted here for everyone to see again. Or, for the first time, if you are like Allison and could not make it.

...Video was removed... Vacation Bible School from Reynolda Church on Vimeo.

Upcoming Parenting Class

First of all, thank you Joyners for letting us all come to your home on Sunday. It was amazing how you kept the rain at bay for us to enjoy your backyard. We had a great time.

As for the announcement, Gwladys Keating will be teaching a class during the Vacation Bible School next week. Gwladys is a well-respected lady of the church and full of wisdom. She will be giving five lessons:

1. Building Self Esteem in Your Child I
2. Building Self Esteem in Your Child II
3. Discipline
4. Celebration in the Family
5. Encouraging Spiritual Growth

Allison and I are planning on making as many as we can. This is great opportunity for each of us. There will be CD's available if you are helping out with the VBS. Hope to see you there.

August 9 - 14

6:00 in the Chapel

Reynolda POPs Easter Egg Hunt

Getting a head start on all the Winston Salem Easter events, we had our Reynolda POPs Easter Egg Hunt yesterday at the church. It was perfect weather and having it on the playground was a perfect place to be and let the kids play. Many thanks to Elisabeth who did a lot of the leg work for this. Many of us took pictures, but here are some highlights of ones that I took. It was a great time.


Pre Easter Egg Hunt Festivities


Pre Easter Egg Hunt Advice


Kids finding out there is candy inside the eggs, and the Easter Egg hunt begins.


Looking for Easter Eggs.


Eating the Easter candy, and enjoying the day.

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter is just around the corner, and the POPs class will be celebrating with a fun Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday, April 4th at 3:30. We will meet at the church and will host the festivities outside. Bring 12 plastic eggs filled with a small prize in each. Please contact Elisabeth Joyner for more details. This will be a great event for us to allow our kids to play together and for us to hang out. Look forward to seeing everyone there.

image courtesy of the River Church

Super Bowl Party

When: Sunday, February 1st - 6:00 PM EST
Where: Tony and Elisabeth's Home
Who: Pittsburg Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals
Bring: Snack or Beverage
Channel: NBC

There has been much discussion on the items above, and there may have still been some confusion. So far it seems that all of the guys are coming with the possible exception of Daniel having a new baby at home. Let's all contact Tony and Elisabeth to let them know what we are bringing so they can plan for the night.

Christmas Party Recap

Our thanks go out to the Saul's for opening up your home for everyone and allowing a bunch of kids to decorate cookies. There was much laughter and eating, and the cookies were very appreciative. There was a party at Winston Salem Street School today with the cookies our kids made. The students were impressed when they realized that kids had made them.

Here is a collections of a few pictures taken during the festivities.

Christmas Time!

It's that time of year! Our Christmas party for the class will be next week (see Class Calendar for directions and details). Justin and Sara will be hosting the event at their home and will have more information in class tomorrow about how everyone can help. The party will be from 4:00 - 6:30, which gives us plenty of time to get the kids home for bed. We are looking forward to seeing there.

Chili Gala A Success

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The Chili Gala was a glowing success. Thank you to Mike and Lisa for having everyone over to their home. There was plenty of food to be had and lots of room for the kids to play.

We even had some inter-family friendships budding. I wanted to say romances, but since one of the girls is my daughter, I have to say she is much too young.

For all the parents who were there, here is a little collage of the beautiful children.

Dixie Classic Fair

The Dixie Classic Fair is Here!

Now some of you might not be from around here, but the Dixie Classic Fair is a perfect local activity for you and your kids. We love to go to event the fried Snickers, community charities bar-b-que, and elephant ears. We also like to take Rachel to see all of the animals - sheep coraling and pig racing. This will be Elizabeth's first trip to the fair, but we are looking forward to it.

The fair is generally opened from 11:00am - 10:30pm each day from 10/3 - 10/12. It costs $8 for adults (over 12) and $4 for children (6 - 11). If you park in the lot, it will cost $7.

The are different days with savings, as weekdays before 1:00 it costs $3 to get in. Wednesday 11/8 you can get in with 5 cans of food from Lowe's Food. And, next weekend (11th & 12th) kids under 7 can read all rides for just $7 from open to 5pm. There are directions to the fair on their site.

Enjoy!

Chili Gala Postponed Due to Rain

We are anouncing a rain delay for the Chili Gala. With a cold steady downfall throughout today and called for most of tomorrow, we thought that we would not want to be outside. And, we might all feel a bit cramped inside. We had 5 couples planning on coming, which was great, but 10 adults plus children is quite a lot pushed indoors.

We are currently planning on moving this to next Saturday with everything else the same. Make the changes in your calendars!

Chili Gala

This Saturday we are having a class get together. We will meet from 4:30 to 6:30, so we all have time to get our kids home before bedtime. This is a family friendly event, so bring your kids to let them all play together. Mike and Lisa have graciously set this up and are hosting at their home. Here is a map to there house. Please call them at 722-0709 if you are coming.

Please sign up in class for one of the following:
· Chili (2-3 families to show off your stuff!)
· Loaded Baked Potatoes (The Mebanes)
· Paper Products (The Mebanes)
· Drinks/Ice
· Desserts (2 families)
· Appetizers
· Corn Bread Roll AND Crackers