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CEDAR LANE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH JUNIOR HIGH YOUTH GROUP To Junior High Students and their Parents: It is time for 7th and 8th grade students to join Cedar Lane’s Junior High Youth Group and continue the fun and reward of being a Cedar Lane student. The Group’s goal is to create activities that keep our junior high youth interested in Cedar Lane and have a lot of fun in the process. And with a lot of help from many, many kids and parents, we usually succeed. The Junior High Youth Group is in addition to the Religious Education classes taught each Sunday for 7th and 8th graders. The Youth Group is purely voluntary. But we try to organize enough fun and challenging events that students will want to attend without being pushed. The objectives of the Junior High Youth Group are simple. We try to plan activities that allow Junior High kids to get to know each other, advance their socializing skills, learn ethical lessons of sharing and caring for each other, perform public service for our community and church, and have fun in doing all this. In the recent years, we have enjoyed pizza and movies at the church, gone to local malls for dinner and a movie, rafted the Shenandoah River, hiked the Appalachian Trail, and mastered the Innerquest ropes course at Madeira School. We have shared two-night weekend trips to the Wisp Resort in western Maryland for skiing, traveled to a YMCA camp on the Eastern Shore for weekend retreats, made splashy weekend trips to New York City for two days of sight seeing, slept-over with the sharks at the Baltimore Aquarium, and traveled to West Virginia for a weekend of cave exploring. Four or five times each year, we pack food boxes at Manna Food in Rockville for needy families in Montgomery County and earn school service credit. We have washed cars during Spring B to raise money for removing land mines in war-torn countries and for protecting women and children in Afghanistan. We have helped at-risk kids at Beacon House celebrate Halloween and Christmas. At Thanksgiving, we have helped prepare food bags for deserving families in the District of Columbia. We usher at the Christmas Eve Family Services and other services during the church year. We know that our students have many other things happening in their school, and their family’s activities are a priority. So we understand if some cannot attend everything on our schedule. But we think they will enjoy many of the activities and getting together with their Cedar Lane friends. Look for the Junior High Youth Group’s schedule that accompanies this letter, mark the dates on the family calendar, and come to as many events as possible. Before each event, an announcement will be mailed to the student with information about the activity. If you have any questions, please call us at the numbers below, or contact Susan Archer or Glenis Bellais at the Church (301-493-8300). The Junior High Youth Group has completed the first half of its year’s activities with the recent ski trip to Wisp Ski Resort. Other activities included a weekend caving trip, our annual Retreat at Camp Tockwogh, rafting on the Shenandoah, hiking the Billy Goat Trail, movies at the mall, and Manna Food Packing. New 2008 Junior High Activities Are Scheduled - see link below. The upcoming Winter/Spring schedule will include a Hike on Old Rag Mountain near Sperryville, VA, a Sleepover with the Sharks at the Baltimore Aquarium, the annual New York City Sightseeing Trip, another evening of Manna Food Packing, and an evening of pizzas and movies at Cedar Lane. If you have any questions about the Junior High Youth Group, call John Daniel (301-946-5509) or Megan Renner (301-807-4963). Junior High Youth
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