Fall activity ideas

Next Saturday, the 21st, we will be hosting a Fall Fun day here at our house for my 3rd-5th grade Sunday School students. (There are about 14 or 15 students in all--mostly boys) It's just a chance for them to get together and have fun outside of Sunday School. We're planning the typical menu: Hot dogs, chips, apple cider and donuts.

Here's your assignment, should you choose to accept it:

I could really use some suggestions for some fun outdoor games. I am planning an obstacle course/maze of some sort using bags of leaves and several relay races. Bobbing for apples is a no brainer. But I need at least one activity that doesn't include running and chasing and racing because one of my students is in a wheel chair. Stef can definitely navigate a maze but I am hoping to find some other fall activities in which she can participate fully. The kids will only be here about 2 hours and part of that time will be taken up in eating, but I want to make sure I have enough to keep them busy!

Any and all suggestions will be most appreciated. You can leave them in the comments or send them via email.

Psalm 119: Your Word is Truth

Psalm 119

א ALEPH

1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of the LORD!
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the whole heart!
3 They also do no iniquity;
They walk in His ways.
4 You have commanded us
To keep Your precepts diligently.
5 Oh, that my ways were directed
To keep Your statutes!
6 Then I would not be ashamed,
When I look into all Your commandments.
7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart,
When I learn Your righteous judgments.
8 I will keep Your statutes;
Oh, do not forsake me utterly!

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Thursday Photo Challenge: Glass

Thursday Photo Theme
GLASS

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It's a record

Yesterday's snow set a record for the earliest measurable snowfall, logging in at 0.3 inches. The previous record was set on October 18, 1989 with 0.7 inches. This morning's Northwest Herald answers the pressing question: How did this happen?--"moisture and cold temperatures. "

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God's Minute

October 13

1 John 5:8

If we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us.

With gratitude for Thy protection during the night watches, we begin, O Lord, the new life of a new day. Our paths will be the busy thoroughfares--walk Thou with us unseen. Our thoughts will be of our business--let not our hearts cleave to these things, but through the sweet influence of Thy Spirit, incline us to seek things that endure. We shall be tempted today, we may be drawn to the verge of some awful mistake--in the swift moment of danger, when we cannot withdraw to our closet of prayer, give us to know the right, and the power to do it.

Let not trifles ruffle our temper, not disappointments unman us; let not exacting duties make us selfish and churlish; give us rather a sunshiny face, a forthright hand, and the joy of a word fitly spoken to some timid, discouraged soul.

Strength for the day's service give us in such measure as Thou willest; pass by our sins of omission; and when the shadows fall, bring us again, unsullied by thought, or word, or deed, to sweet refreshing sleep. For Christ's sake.

Amen.

Hon. John Stites,
Louisville, KY