Fall Festival 2013

Fall Festival

2013 Highlights

September 28, 2013

To celebrate the 10th year of serving our community with this incredible day, we sure didn't  hold back!  Close to 600 people attended this spectacular day, blessed by God with warm weather and abundant sunshine.  Much of the crowd stayed all day, enjoying caramel apples, pumpkin decorating, hay rides, free raffles, taking a shot at the dunk tank (how much fun was it to try and dunk Pastor Glen and all the others!), tasting chili, toasting marshmallows by our new fire pit and SO much more.  The Pie Eating Contest was a huge success once again, challenging 36 children and 24 adults in their pie eating skills.    The popularity of this engaging event has prompted us to consider adding a third seating next year!  Follow the links below to either the video or the photo gallery for a complete recap of this memorable day.

 

Photo Gallery

Fall Festival Video
    

Our Church in Action

Feeding Friends Outreach

Our cooking crew!

A great day of fellowship was enjoyed by all!

Many times, people have the best intentions.  They hear of a friend, neighbor, or acquaintance that just had surgery, or just lost their job, or are mourning the loss of a loved one.  They'd like to help out, provide a meal, but just can't find the time in their busy schedules.  That's where we fit in!  Periodically, those in our church community who enjoy cooking, come together to prepare meals; prepare A LOT of meals, enough meals to fill a stand up freezer!  So, when we hear of someone in our local community that is experiencing physical, financial, or emotional hardship, we can provide a delicious, home cooked meal or two, at a moments notice, and ease their burden just a little bit.

"Chef" Michele checking the turkeys

Canned Food Drive

Conveniently located on Route 130, a widely traveled route in our local community, we serve as a drop off location for The Upper Cape Cod Helping Hands Food Pantry.  Non-perishable food items and other personal necessities can be dropped off anytime to our church office,  and we'll make sure they reach the food pantry.  Partnering with the Upper Cape Cod Helping Hands Food Pantry is just another way we enjoy serving our community by keeping their shelves stocked and helping those in need.

Some of our CAPE Kids on a field trip shopping for our Can Drive.

Collecting donations from neighborhood homes.

                         

      Coins for a Cause 

Started during Fall Festival 2013, this outreach opportunity collects spare change for a variety of causes at various times throughout the year.   For Fall Festival, we collected donations for charity: water, an organization that seeks to provide the clean drinking water that is so abundantly available to us, to people around the world that are so desperately in need.  Check out the link below for more information on this organization and all that they are striving to do.

Charity: water

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Fall Festival 2012

         

        Forestdale Family 
     Fall Festival
     Highlights
        October 20, 2012

 Over 400 guests braved what started out to be a drizzly day and enjoyed this free, fun-packed day of games, refreshments, raffles  and entertainment!  In addition to the Pie Eating Contests, Tractor-Drawn Hay Rides, Pumpkin Decorating, Chili Contest and all the other "regulars" at our annual Fall Festival, a few new venues were added,  including a competitive yet friendly Basketball Challenge and the ever popular Cake Walk.

Table after table had to be added to accommodate over 40 kids who participated in the youth Pie Eating Contest!

  

  Gunner Lee, for the second year in a row, won the contest and took home quite an unique First Prize!
  

Pumpkin decorating is always a huge hit!

      


Face painting at it's finest!

To view all the photos from Fall Festival, 

click here!

Be sure to check out this year's video too:

Fall Festival October 15, 2011

2011 Fall Festival

 One of our biggest community outreach events of the year.  Over 500 people attended this year's Fall Festival!    This fun-filled day included, among other things,  an inflatable obstacle course, tractor drawn hay rides, creative face painting, two hugely successful, and a little bit messy, pie eating contests, a variety of games, the ever popular chili contest, an amazing amount of free raffles, and all the food you could possibly want!

The Infamous Pie Eating Contest

 So much to do for the kids...pumpkin decorating, games, face painting, an inflatable obstacle course, bouncy house and hay rides are some of the  favorites!

Face Painting

  


                                                    

Be sure to stop by the Pastor's Booth for delicious caramel apples!                                 

There's always a line at Pastor Glen's booth

"Olympic Games" for the kids

 With the entire day provided entirely free to the community, it's one event you do not want to miss!