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Fourth and Fifth Grade EpistleWe started our week with some silent worship and discussed our plans for the week. We had small group time where we got to play games, make crafts, and prepare ideas for the Fun(d) Fair and Cafe Night. We spent time getting to know each other by having a People Scavenger Hunt where we asked questions about each other and found out information about each of us.On Tuesday we practiced cooperation within our group. We played a big game of Quaker monopoly, where we were the pieces and we had to answer questions on Quakerism. Later, we went on Silver Bay's Cooperation Course. We learned a lot about how to work together as a group and had a lot of fun on the course, too! On Wednesday the group gathered together again in worship, reading parts of "God is in the Mountain" and drawing our ideas of how God works in our world. We also had some special visitors join our group and speak to us about Native Americans. They answered lots of our questions and taught us a lot about traditional people. On Thursday we began with a circle and some worship - holding hands and speaking in turn about our thoughts on God. We had several visitors to our group. Reb and Renee-Noelle spoke about Biblical figures and told stories about children who made a difference in the world. We told stories about children and people that we knew who made a difference and got Bibles from Reb to bring home. Mike and Chris talked about the youth program at Powell House and taught us some fun games as well. Our final visitor of the day was Judy Inskeep, who dressed up like Mary Samm, who we learned was a 12- year-old Quaker who helped her grandfather while he was in prison. On Friday we started worship by reading "Another Way to Listen." We worked on our epistle and played a lot of fun games with our parachute. At the end of the week we gathered together with the rest of JYM to sing and worship as a group. |