We are starting a blog for Park Avenue Youth and Family Services! During the summer one of the biggest things that PAYFS does is the urban summer program. We just wrapped up our first week of day camps for preschool through junior high. This week we were blessed to have a group of about 30 volunteers from the youth group at Wheaton Bible Church in Wheaton, Illinois serving with us. Their help made this first week of camp go smoothly. We are so grateful for all their hard work!
During the week, the preschool group went to the Splash Pad, Como Zoo and the Wild Rumpus Bookstore.
This week was Sports camp for the Kindergarteners through 5th graders. They were split by gender rather than age for the week. They played basketball, kickball, had a baseball clinic with the MN Twins and spent all of Friday at Tropics Water Park.
The 6th-8th graders focused on missions and service this week at camp. They swept the stairwells at Ebenezer apartments, packaged food at Feed My Starving Children, served meals at the Marie Sandvik Center and volunteerses at Goodwill in Hopkins.
Tune in again for more updates as the summer continues, and please remember to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. It's really important!
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