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Community members celebrate together at Fifth Avenue Park
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 The Rock Solid Church holds an annual Fourth of July Picnic at Fifth Avenue Park, and this year the church members extended the family fun to the entire Conway community.
Despite the rain showers that unfortunately helped kick off the festivities, Mike McNeely, the church's pastor, said everyone was having a great time.
"It's a bonding thing because we let them participate in games together as a family," McNeely said during Friday's event. "We know in today's society they don't get together like this as often as they want to, so we just wanted everyone to slow down and have fun."
McNeely said in the past the picnic was just a way for the church community to bond as a family but added he wanted the 2008 event to have a more humanitarian side to it.
"A lot of the community members don't have the finances or resources available for an event like this, so we wanted to just provide a fun Fourth of July for everyone," McNeely said.
The event kicked off with a co-ed softball game at the park and was followed by a game of flag football, with both kids and adults participating. There were also church members manning the grill, cooking up hot dogs and hamburgers to serve to the participants for lunch, complete with dessert and all the trimmings.
Tamara Watson, the children's pastor for Rock Solid Church, was in charge of coming up with fun, summertime games for the kids and said the two giant inflatable water slides were a big hit with the younger members of the crowd.
"If the rain doesn't come back too much, we are also going to have games for the kids that are all water-related, like water relays and water balloon fights, to cool down a little," Watson said.
Watson said she will encourage kids of all ages, along with moms and dads, to take part in the fun and games because setting aside time for family was what Friday's event was all about.
"One of our goals within the church is to build up the family atmosphere, and we try not to do different things and activities where one member of the family goes here and another goes over there," Watson said. "This is an event where all the family members get to be together."
(Staff writer Jessica Bauer can be reached by e-mail at jessica.bauer@thecabin.net or by phone at 505-1236. To comment on this and other stories in the Log Cabin, log on to www.thecabin.net. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit)
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