Each year at the end of the school year, HIS youth
ministries seeks to welcome the younger students into youth group for the
following August. Hosted by the 7th & 8th grades this
year, we actually welcomed 2 grades into middle school.
This year Heritage is moving from a junior high department
to a middle school department, meaning we’re moving from 7 & 8 only to an
age separation of 6-8 for Middle School and 9-12 for High School. So instead of
welcoming only grade 6 into grade 7, we also included grade 5- welcoming them
into grade 6.
From now on, we are working at keeping middle school and
secondary separate in retreats, youth groups, Bible studies and other
activities. Pray with us that we
have enough youth workers and energy as we put together schedules for each age
group!
Anyway, we hosted the Middle
School Welcome, with grades 5-8 participating totaling about 50 people.
These are exciting times to see our school numbers growing so much! :)
Getting Mrs. Michelle wet was quite entertaining during the water balloon fight.
... and the ever popular trolley rides, including bowling this year!
Below: digging for the buried candies in powdered sugar. Always a messy delight!
Oh slip-n-slide, whoever invented you was a genius!
