After another week of J-Jam, the McFlurry Fury are still in front.  After determining a winner of the spirit day contest, we started off with a game of Mat Ball, then transitioned to Dodgeball.  Zach Ferguson gave a devotion on temptation and we split into small discussion groups.  We finished with the very popular Gross Out Game.  Next week’s spirit week is Hillbilly Day, so find those overalls and straw hats for Tuesday.  See ya then!!!

McFlurry Flury – 803,000

Double Cheesey Beef Buritto – 713,000

Ten Piece – 680,000

Whopper – 679,500

The McFlurry Fury stormed into first place this week. They came into this week in last place, but with many wins, they took the top spot. However, there are many weeks of J-Jam left, and every team has a shot at winning it all. Next weeks’ Spirit Day is TWIN DAY! Your team will get bonus points for dressing up like someone else. Have a good week J-Jammers! Be ready for next week!

McFlurry Fury – 623,000

Whopper - 571,500

DC Beef Burrito – 585,000

Ten Piece – 580,000

Standings:

1st – Team Ten Piece – 394,500

2nd – DC Beef Burrito – 381,000

3rd – Mcflurry Fury – 369,000

4th – Whopper – 359,000

This past weeks J Jam was awesome. We started off with a J Jam favorite of Octopus followed by an intense game of dodgeball. The games were heated, but Team Ten Piece came out of them with a ton of extra bonus points for knocking out key players of the games. We then moved on to our Sanctuary games of cinderella shoes and the 3-legged race. After that, Chris McNaney delivered his devotional on what true worship is. He had us ponder what true worship really is. Worship is not just singing songs to God. It is devoting your life to his purposes. Finally, the night ended with a great gross out game where Team Whopper’s JJ led the team to a quick victory by shoving his face into the baked bean and pretzel mixture.

We hope to all see you next week. Remember…. BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!!

To start out our second week of j-jam we played an intense game of kickball.  Ashton was pretty awesome at the game.  Then we played a few rounds of dodgeball.  After our gym/jim games we headed up to the youth center for some exciting rounds of bulletin skiing, but this was no ordinary bulletin skiing, this round of bulletin skiing was in a large oval, which proved to be very challenging for some teams.  After the game,Pastor Jan came to share the devotion on how God never changes.  After the devotion we played the final game of the day, the gross out game.  For this gross out challenge the students had to consume 10 pickles soaked in honey.

Here are the team totals so far

1st- Double Cheesy Beef Burritos – 284,000

2nd- Ten Piece - 274,500

3rd- McFlurry Fury – 264,500

4th- Whopper – 255,000

So the first week of J-Jam spring season 2009, was a t0tal success!  We divided up our teams, and started in on the action right away!  We started off with some kill the cone!  That is a J-Jam favorite.   After that we went to some dodgeball, which is another J-Jam favorite. Eric Stump gave our team a pep talk, “WE WILL LIVE TOGETHER, AND WE WILL DIE TOGETHER!”  Thats deep!!  After two games of dodgeball we went up the sanctuary for bumper bellies.  You stuff a couch cusion into a DoubleXL shirt, and then you put four of these people into a 10×10 foot box and let them sumo!  AMAZING!  Then we went to a marshmallow relay where kids had to pick up marshmallows with their feet and hop on one foot down to the other side, and drop them in a picther!  Needless to say some people had sticky feet after this game.  Then Eric Starner ate them!  I am completely kidding!  After the marshmallow relay, Pastor Jeff gave the devotion and asked a few questions to make sure the chicos and chicas were paying attention, which they were!  Then to the final game, DRUMROLL PLEASE!  “THE UNHAPPY MEAL!!”  Cheeseburger, french fries, and water all mushed up in a cup for the team to drink!  Absolutley disgusting.  But it was a great day at J-Jam, and the kids really enjoyed it.  Here are the points standings thus far.

McFlurry Fury - 150,000

Ten-Piece – 137,500

Whopper – 121,000

Double Cheesy Beef Burrito – 118,500

We will still be having the J-Jam skating party, even though it is snowing, the roads are still clear. See u there!!!

J-Jam last week was amazing. This was our second to last J-Jam event and we are now rounding down for this season of J-Jam. This week we took a bit of a Christmas theme for the gross out game. We took a page from Elf: The Movie and decided to try eating some of Buddy’s breakfast surprise. It was a lot of fun.

We hope to see you here next week for our last J-Jam of the fall season.

Scores:

1st  :  Tibiofibula – 1,605,500

2nd :  Jugular – 1,488,500

3rd  : Metacarpal – 1,422,150

4th  : Iliac – 1,372,150

Trivia Question:

What popular children’s cracker today was introduced in 1902 as a Christmas ornament?

So yesterday was a very fun J-Jam. Although we did not have the Gym for any dodgeball or kill the cone, it was still a great day.

We started with the pop the balloon game. Everyone ties a balloon to their ankle with string, and you have to run around and try to pop the balloons off of kids on other teams. Its a very high pace game. Then off to Chariot. One rider and two kids are horses, the rider has flags around his waist and the two horses have to run around and pull the flags off of other riders on other teams. The kids find this game very fun. After that… AMAZON WOMEN!!!!!!!!!! Aeriel Hammaker loves this game. lol. All the boys crowd together, link arms and legs while all the girls run around and try to pull boys out of the circle. Lots of soreness after that one. But then after the commissioner, co-commissioner, and Pastor Jeff talked it over, we decided to do one more round. So it was again another game of pulling on arms, pulling on legs and shirts for them to yank the boys out of the circle. Matt Burkey wants to thank Eric Stump for putting his butt in his face the whole first game, and I would like to thank Eric Stump for the sweet aroma of his amazing smelling foot that was in my face the whole time. Good going Stump! Kris McNaney then brought the word!!! He talked about giving and how it is important to give with a kind spirit and a cheerful heart. Then to our gross out game. It was some kind of vegetable juice, that tasted like watered down pea soup. It was disgusting, probably the worst gross out game this season. But that’s it for this week, so here are the scores.

1st Place: Tibiofibula 1,355,500

2nd Place: Jugular 1,261,500

3rd Place: Metacarpal 1,217,650

4th Place: Illiac 1,169,000

Next week is Pilgrim and Indian Day!!!

Trivia:

What country leads the world in mining and production of silver?

Well we started off with a J-Jam favorite, Octopus! It was a great game besides one of the girls getting owned in the face by a leader that shall remain nameless. Then to dodgeball which was fun, as always. We split the girls and guys and each team from the girls side got to pick one guy to join them. It was a great game even though all the guys won. Then we went to the youth center to play the pick up a paper bag with your mouth while standing on one foot and leaning down game. HAHA I didn’t know what to call it so that’s its name now. That was great, get em Isaiah Seilhammer!! Then we took a Disney quiz. Pretty fun. Then to our gross out game, mustard, banana, apple, and rice cake sandwiches. So Good!!!! NOT! But that was J-Jam this week. The standings are as follows…

1st Place: Jugular-1,143,500

2nd Place: Tibiofibula-1,233,500

3rd Place: Metacarpal-1,123,500

4th Place: Illiac-1,087,000

4 more weeks to go!!!

Trivia Question

What is the largest mountain in the Universe?

Bonus Points: How tall is it?

So yesterday at J-jam was Steve Urkel/nerd day which was most amusing. To start off the day, we went down to the gym (or jim depending on how you like to spell) to play the cone game, a J-Jam classic. Then we played a new game called dragon dodgeball. The students had to hold onto each other to form a dragon while the rest of the students had to throw dodgeballs at the tail of the dragon to get them out. After dodgeball, we went up to the Youth Center to play probably the most creative game in the history of J-Jam. Students were blindfolded and led through an obstacle course by another student. The gross out game was pretty gross, the students had to drink hotdogs in smoothie form, which looked and smelled pretty bad.

Point totals:

1st place Tibiofibula – 1,070,500

2nd place Jugular – 1,021,500

3rd place Metacarpal – 1,007,000

4th place Iliac – 966,500

Trivia Question:
When was the Panama canal built and opened?