Happenings

8/24 - Kids Shabbat ... DS was told his prize smelled like candy...took a bite and it was soap - poor thing...LOL

8/25 my Kombucha scoby arrived....made up a brew.....

8/26 Intro to Jewish Roots class on Yom Kippur- Day of Coverings

8/27 - all day meeting and found out my order of the TransFIRMer is on it's way

8/28 - college and my mom's beauticontrol party

8/29 - I get my teeth cleaned today and am having a dilemna

what to do?
so DS finally got into Awanas...and it is starting back up next week

but on 10/31 they do a "alternative" to haloweeny thing.....and you know How I feel about this.....if we truly believe we shouldn't participate, why even have an alternative? why not treat it like a normal day....I'm sending my son to a church group for something different. If I wanted him to get hyped up on sugar and get a cavitiy, then I would send him out into the world for this.

but Swylv, this is an outreach, a ministry, a way of witnessing because we provide a safer way to have fun on this day.....

"WHY DO IT AT ALL?"
I have no problem with "dress-up"...I let my son dress in his batman and spiderman suites all the time....when he was 4 he practically lived in a spiderman one....jumping all over the place pretending to be spiderman.

In the world but not of it....let's be different....if they are candying it up on a particular day, let us abstain from candy that day...there's 362 other days a year to eat candy. (you'll notice I subtracted 10/31, 12/25, and someday in either march or april, surprised they haven't made a same day every year for that day as well)

and then I find out they will also do xmessy type stuff and ishtary type stuff...so I have to figure out when to not let DS go so he'll avoid the hype to be involved.

would pull him out altogether but he does need a group to go to...wonder if 4H would fit the bill....

We can memorize scripture at home together and we learn from the Scriptures everyday, not just at Awanas.

maybe even boyscouts at this point. Although not hip on the gay men can lead and the fact that boy scouts is heavily associated with the catholic church.

but some homeschoolers have gotten together to form dens for homeschooled children...so maybe.

but again, all these organizations will heavily talk about the pagan days of 10/31, xmess and ishtar....and DS will wonder about these.

It's bad enough that we don't do them in our home but the rest of the family does in theirs...talk about being the "party pooper"

but we have a weekly festivity - Shabbat
and 7 Biblical Feasts each year
plus Purim and Chanukah ....

and all these for the most part last more than just one day.
So who is really having more fun?
any words of wisdom about what to do with Awanas?