FUMC Terrell News and Events

Your Boy Scouts have been hard at work trying to raise the funds to make it to Summer Camp. 

Camp Fees this year have gone up by $15 per boy and $25 per adult not to mention what gas prices have done. Thanks to the church and the greater Terrell community's support of our Fish Fry we were able to get a lot closer to our goal ($3825 for 12 boys and three adults) but we do still have a ways to go!

It hasn't been all work, though, as we were able to get in a fishing/swimming trip to Cedar Creek Lake over the last month. 

The fishing was a little slow and the swimming a little cold but the boys had fun just the same and vowed to do it again real soon.

It's been a busy Month for your Scout Troop. We have had 2 Fund raisers to help us pay our way for our Spring Break trip to New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. We also held our annual "Scouting for Food" Service project where we collected non perishable food items for the needy here in Terrell. Despite the slow economy we were able to collect over 900 items and deliver them to the local food bank.

Best news of all is we have had several boys visit and ask about joining our Troop and as of this writing 2 have signed up. Scouting is a year round program and we do our best to recruit year round.

Last Saturday Mike Hunt, Joe Chandler and a few of the boys removed the bent axle from our Troop Trailer so that it can be repaired or replaced. We need to have this done ASAP as the Trailer is a must for our Fish Fry in April as well as many of our camp outs and Summer Camp.

As always thank you so much for your continued support.

Troop 391 is busy as bees these days!

We have a "Survivor" camp out coming up where the boys will test their skills in wilderness survival and pit one patrol against the other in skill competitions. We will be working with the Pack to collect food for the needy on February 18 with our annual "Scouting for Food" Drive.

Sunday, February 12, is "Scout Sunday" where we'll join the congregation in fellowship.

Over Spring Break we will be traveling to New Mexico to see Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, Philmont, and an extinct volcano.

Of course, all this activity takes money so we will be doing several fund raisers like our Camp Card sales where $5 gets you a card with discounts you can use all year long and $5 off your groceries at Kroger's so the card becomes free. 

We will also be holding our Fish Fry at the heritage Jubilee again this year. Costs to run this continue to rise so I'm not sure how much longer this will continue to make economic sense. Space rental alone went from $150 last year to $200 this year not to mention the cost of fish, etc... One way or another though we will continue to do our best to provide the youth of Terrell with a fun and exciting program.