THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

Today 8/17/08
Please Join the Oak Dale Boys & Girl Band for an evening of singing at the Goodwill Retirement home, Grantsville, MD – meet at 6:45pm there, starting at 7:15pm – All are welcome to singing and play instruments

Monday 8/18/08
VHS (Vision, Huddle Skill), a small group of care group leaders will meet at Joe Byler’s house (310 Ord Street, Salisbury 814-662-4364), 7:00pm

Coming Events
Wednesday – August 27 - Congregational Annual Business Meeting, at Oak Dale Church 7:00pm. – Everyone that attends Oak Dale is encouraged to attend.

Agenda:
1.     The annual reports
2.     Approval of ministry team leaders
3.     Director of Family Life
4.     Review the next steps towards relocating to our Rt. 219 property 

Sunday – Sept. 7 – Grandparents Day Celebration: Invite your Grandparents or Grandchildren to a worship service celebrating Grandparents & Grandchildren.

Highlights from FUSION 08 – Youth Camp

Four days of FUN and Excitement happened at Camp Albryoca in Pocahontas, PA. (Monday August 11th -Thursday, August 14th). 76 kids (ages 11-17) came and participated in various Games & Activities – from the human peanut sandwich (spreading peanut butter all over you and people throwing pieces of bread at you.) Object - was to have the most bread stuck on you. - To the Picking out Marbles with your Toes in the muddy baby pools, to Counselor’s hide and seek to many other great games. The Crafts were awesome – tydying pillow cases and utensil wind chimes & basket weaving. The Food was absolutely terrific and very delicious. Campfires – was singing silly songs and getting to know people better. Service project - 76 school kits were made for poor children and 19 fleece blankets were completed.

Childcare averaged 17 little kids a day and had a great time – flying kites, hiking, and doing crafts. The speaker Rob Culler was fantastic and really seemed to get the kids attention, he also like interacting with the kids with the games and activities. The speaker sessions all started a worship time of singing songs. Every day there was pool time. Lynn Lais and came and gave a pottery demonstration. Each cabin (4 boy’s cabins & 4 girl’s cabins) had 2 counselors. They made a team flag (located on the wall in the back),  they had devotion time and bonded with each other. All the staff got together and bombarded all the kids after dinner one night with water balloons, shaving cream & water guns. – What a BLAST that WAS!!!!!

A slide show of all the weeks’ memories was shown.

Thank You for Everyone’s help that volunteered their time and energy to make the Fifth year of FUSION such a huge success. The Director was Amanda Maust along with the Steering Committee (Wayne Tiemersma, Anita Lowery & Meg Knauer) worked very hard this year to make the Four Days a FUN and GREAT time for the Staff and the Kids. 

Community Events
The monthly hymn sing is set for Sunday, August 24, at Ruth Miller Yoder's, Grantsville. Food and fellowship will follow. Bring Zion's Praises if you have it, finger foods if you like. All are welcome. Call Ruth (301-895-3909) or Joyce Sauder (814-634-8335) for more information.

United Community Choir will begin rehearsing again soon and you are invited. Bring yourself, your spouse and friends that want to join us. We will be performing something very special for this year’s Christmas Cantata. See the bulletin board for a schedule of practices. – Questions contact Sean & Debi 301-895-4224

Youth for Christ will host Game Night at Salisbury High School starting on Sunday Sept. 7 and will be held each Sunday night from 7pm to 9pm. Any help for Game Night would be appreciated.  – Contact Duane Frederick 301-387-2763