Welcome back to GRADES 7/8 JR. YOUTH! We are super excited for this year! Reminder emails are sent out every Monday with an update of what’s up. If you ever have any questions please don’t hesitate to email [email protected] or [email protected]

Sept 11 | Oct 24 | Halloween Photo JR Youth Kickoff Scavenger Hunt Sundae Bar & Amazing Race Come dressed up in costume, ready to Invite your whole family as we kick compete in the ultimate photo scavenger hunt off another amazing year of JR Youth! We at the mall! will enjoy a BBQ and an introduction to the Where: Outlet Collection at Niagara (300 Taylor year with a game of Amazing Race! Meet the Rd, Niagara-on-the-Lake) leaders and get an understanding of what our program will be like for the coming year. When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Where: New Hope Church Niagara *Nov 6 | Guys/Girls Night When: 6:30pm-8:30pm GUYS: Video night. Bring your Dad, Uncle, What to Bring: A salad, side dish or dessert.! Grandpa, Big Brother, etc. Sports, food & great Sept 18 | Board Games Live guy bonding! Family game night is a blast, and when you GIRLS: Craft Making and Drink Tasting! Some of the nights we’ve add in life-sized board games, it’s even better! Where: Guys – Westdale School planned this year require extra Where: Westdale School Girls – New Hope Church Niagara parent help. When: 7:00pm-9:00pm When: 7:00pm-9:00pm They are marked as PARENT HELP Sept 25 | Gross Out NEEDED NIGHTS. We would love Get ready to get gross and dirty! Perhaps Nov 13 | Mad Science for you to join us anytime and some colour wars, slime and guck games and Explosions, rockets, slime and super-sub-zero especially on those nights. an ‘are you gonna eat that?!’ challenge! experiments. Where: New Hope Church Niagara Where: New Hope Church • September 11, 2019 When: 7:00pm-9:00pm When: 7:00pm-9:00pm (Whole family is welcome) What to Bring: Clothes that can get messy & a Nov 13 | Harry Potter Night • October 16, 2019 change of clothes to go home in! Parent Chaperons. Cross over platform 9 ¾ into the Wizarding Oct 2 | Bowling World, be sorted into your house and be ready • November 6, 2019 Let’s knock down some pins! for a full timetable at Hogwarts! Dads/Male mentors. Where: Parkway Social Bowling Lanes (327 Where: New Hope Church Niagara Ontario St, St. Catharines) • December 4, 2019 When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Parents to help in the kitchen. When: 7:00pm-9:00pm What to Bring: Dress in robes or other Harry • January 15, 2020 Oct 9 | Mix Up Dinner Potter related gear! Parent help in the kitchen. Will you need a fork, a knife, a spoon? Will you have to eat without your hands? Will the meal Nov 27 | Hangout Night • January 22, 2020 be in the right order? Come get mixed up at Come just hangout for a night!! Have an interesting job you would like to share with us?) our Mixed Up Dinner. Where: TBD Where: New Hope Church Niagara When: 7:00pm-9:00pm • February 12, 2020 Parent Chaperons. When: 7:00pm-9:00pm *Dec 4 | Christmas Banquet A JR youth tradition! We’ll have a Christmas • February 26, 2020 *Oct 16 | Agape Valley Mom’s & Female Mentors invited Come on out for a night outdoors! We will go feast and a super fun, ‘White Elephant’ gift to join us for Zumba, yoga, for a hay ride, have fire roasted hotdogs and a exchange. smoothies & video games!. bible story around a camp fire. Where: New Hope Church Niagara • April 1, 2020 Where: Agape Valley (392 Kilman Rd, Ridgeville,) When: 6:30pm-9:00pm Do you live within walking distance When: 7:00pm-9:00pm What to Bring: Dress up red & green, or festive of between Power Glen and the New Hope Building? Would you & fancy! Bring a wrapped gift that someone in be interested in being a ‘Egg Oct 23 | Laser tag your lesson group would enjoy but that doesn’t Spot’? Let us know! Kids don’t Bring your “A” game as we transform New cost any money! Either something you already need to come inside your house. Hope Church into a battle ground. own or something you make! Where: New Hope Church Niagara • May 20, 2020 Are you interested in running When: 7:00pm-9:00pm or helping to run a workshop? What to Bring: $15. If that would be an issue for Let us know. you, come anyway! We never want money to NO JR YOUTH DEC. 11 TO JAN. 8 – keep you or your friends to come. CHRISTMAS BREAK Welcome back to GRADES 7/8 JR. YOUTH! We are super excited for this year! Reminder emails are sent out every Monday with an update of what’s up. If you ever have any questions please don’t hesitate to email [email protected] or [email protected]

March 4 | Country Fair Night Jan 15 | Do you know what it’s like to party in the sticks? Apr 29 | Medieval Times Come out & join us for a hoe-down! Where: New Hope Church Niagara Around the World We will travel back in time to When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Come explore traditions and cultures around a time when life was simpler; when kings & queens ruled the land and Mar 11 Cancelled – NO JR YOUTH TONIGHT! the world through games and food. We might knights fought for the loyalty of their King. even have some special guests! Where: New Hope Church Niagara Mar 13-14 | Jr. Youth Retreat Where: New Hope Church Niagara When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Friday to Saturday sleepover at the church When: 7:00pm - 9:00pm for our annual retreat!! This retreat is for all the What to (not) Bring: Come a little Hungery, Grade 7 and 8’s. After this the Grade 8’s will we’ll enjoy a Medeval meal together! be invited to go to Sr. Youth for the rest of the May 6 | Cardboard Olympics season! Everything cardboard. Use your imagination *Jan 22 | Job Fair Night Where: New Hope Church Niagara and compete by making things out of Ever wonder what you want to be when you cardboard!! grow up? Not only will you get to meet people When: Friday at 7:00pm to Saturday at 11am with some really neat jobs, but we’ll do some Where: New Hope Church Niagara fun activities based on those jobs & get a taste Mar 18 Cancelled – NO JR YOUTH TONIGHT! When: 7:00pm-9:00pm for what it’s like! Mar 25 | Alien Where: New Hope Church Niagara An in-the-dark favorite. Run around the May 13 | Hike at Balls Falls/Dodgeball When: 7:00pm-9:00pm building to try to find the pieces to the ‘laser Hike at Ball’s Falls and lesson in the pavilion OR guns’ you will need to defeat the aliens. dodge ball tournament. Jan 29 | Water Park Night Where: New Hope Church Niagara Where: TBD (Weather dependant) Join us for an awesome night of water slides, When: 7:00pm-9:00pm giant waves & fun! When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Where: (cost and location TBD) *April 1 | Extreme Easter Egg Hunt *May 20 | Workshop Night When: 6:00pm-8:00pm (Exact time TBD) You’ve never hunted eggs like this before! We Sign up for which awesome skill you would will travel to different leaders’ & family homes like to spend two hours learning. Sign up will Feb 5 | Time Travel Night in the area, performing challenges to find the Back to the Future: Travel from the Wild West eggs they have hidden! ! come out closer to the date but may include to Ancient Rome to First Moon Landing in 1969 crochet, cake decorating, fire building & hunt- Where: Drop off: Power Glen School (34 West- & more to retrieve the lost parts for the flux land St., in parking lot, pick up at New Hope) ing skills, how to change a tire/ other car care capacitor and head back to the future! basics, painting class, guitar lessons, wood When: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Where: Westdale School working and much, much more! What to Bring: Dress warm/for the weather,and When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Where: New Hope Church Niagara bring a flashlight & an Easter Basket When: 7:00pm-9:00pm *Feb 12 | Iron Chef Are your cooking skills up to the challenge? Apr 8 |Easter Egg Explosions What to bring: $5 to help cover supplies. A ton of traditional and less traditional Easter This favorite is back this year. What will you and egg related games including extreme make to impress the judges? May 27 | Extreme Scavenger Hunt Easter Egg Hunting. Where: New Hope Church Niagara Explore the church property and forest in Where: New Hope Church Niagara When: 7:00pm-9:00pm search of items that will be the most points, When: 7:00pm-9:00pm and hunt down the hidden leaders! What to Bring: Flashlight & an Easter Basket Feb 19 | Movie Night Where: New Hope Church Niagara Come, chill, enjoy popcorn and a flick When: 7:00pm-9:00pm Where: New Hope Church Niagara Apr 15 | YouTube Trivia Night While your team competes in a trivia When: 7:00pm-9:00pm tournament, watch old YouTube favourites. *June 3 | End of Year Family BBQ Where: New Hope Church Niagara *Feb 26 | Guys/Girls Night Bring your whole family and help us celebrate When: 7:00pm-9:00pm a great year! Come experience Amazing GUYS: Sports ball night Race Part 2! GIRLS: Let’s dance it out with Zumba! Bring Apr 22 | Murder Mystery your mom, or other female mentor! Follow the clues, take the evidence to the lab, Where: New Hope Church Niagara Where: Guys – Westdale School School interrogate the suspects and solve the mystery. When: 6:30pm - 9:00pm Girls – New Hope Church Niagara Where: New Hope Church Niagara What to Bring: A salad, side dish or dessert OR When: 7:00pm-9:00pm When: 7:00pm-9:00pm enter our Chili contest! There are prizes!