Residents@JV

'Old Fashion' Family Picnic

Sunday, October 15, 2006, the WestWood General Baptist Church held an Old Fashioned Family Picnic on their grounds located on South Boehne Camp Rd. All Jacob’s Village residents of Wanda, Donna Kay, Debbie, Mike, Michael, Scott, and Home Coordinators Janet and Barry arrived just as the fun was beginning. The parking-lot was filling up; by chance it seemed, the two usual spaces for Jacob’s Village were open. All the games, arts, and crafts began at 2:00pm and the covered dish picnic would commence at 5:00pm under a tent behind the Church. The arts-n-crafts area to entertain the young and young at heart was set up on the South side in the grass. Many members and friends of the Church had teams of 5 to 10 people competing in a series of games for points and the team with the most points would be rewarded a trophy. The variety of exciting games consisted of: Human Bowling, where an individual lying on an automotive maintenance rolling tray called a creeper would be rolled into ten large plastic pins 25 or 30 feet away, Croq-Kick, was patterned off the old croquet game where teams used inflated beach balls, replacing wooden balls that were kicked through three ft. large plastic rings instead of small rings that were inserted into the ground to see which team could kick the ball through the course in the quickest time, Giant Ring Toss, where hoola-hoops were used as rings to toss at stakes of different height with a picture of Pastor John Sloan on them, Egg-Beaters, teams were out to crush other teams’ eggs, that were in a zip-lock bags tied on both sides of their waist, with a foam ‘Thunder Stick’, and the games ended up with the self explanatory Sack-Race. The points were tallied, a winning team was crowned, and the trophy was awarded on the stage under the tent during dinner hour. While everyone was finishing with tasty deserts from the pitch in picnic, the amateur variety show began. There were some singing, some instrument playing, and storytelling for the crowd of about 200 in attendance. Four of the six Jacob’s Village residents had special guests join them for the afternoon picnic. Two weeks prior to this event, the Jacob’s Village residents were introduced to the ‘Best Buddy International’ program through USI. This program is a volunteer type of student service in which a college student is assigned a disabled individual to build a relationship with. The ‘Best Buddy’ program can develop and evolve into a pen-pal type of friendship or a companion ‘go for an outing’ type of friendship. Mike and his buddy painted pumpkins, Michael and his buddy played basketball, Scott’s buddy took some photos, Donna Kay and her buddy conversed and watched the actions of others. A big thank you is in order for the WestWood General Baptist Church for a good time that was had by all at their Sunday afternoon picnic.

posted by J V Resident Blog @ 7:46 AM