FVJN Film Club & Book Club!

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FVJN Film Club
April 15, 4 – 6 p.m.
Mark your calendars for April 18, 4-6pm.  All are welcome to a
film viewing and discussion with snacks. Keep an eye on our calendar at www.fvjn.org for the title of our next film! Participation in the Film Club is free and open to all.

 

FVJN Book Group
May 8, 7 p.m., at FVJN
At our next get together, we will discuss Walking the Bible
by Bruce Feiler (not the children’s version). On July 10, our book will be
Hornet Flight by Ken Follett.
This month we finished Kosher Chinese in which Michael Levy told  of his
fascinating experience during two years in rural China as a teacher with the
Peace Corps. Participation in the Book Club is free and open to all.

FVJN Volunteer Gardeners

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Volunteers Needed to Help Make Geneva Beautiful!
Anyone interested/available to plant? It’s that time, again!
FVJN maintains a beautiful flower garden each year, as part of the Geneva Beautification program.
Volunteers are needed to help with planting on Saturday, April 14, starting at 8 a.m.
The garden we are responsible for is on the southwest corner of State St. (Rt. 38) and Third St., in Geneva.
You can just show up or contact our volunteer garden coordinator, Marci: marci@worddesigner.net.
If able, bring gardening gloves, shovel, trowel, clippers, etc.
See you there!

BBYO Connect for Kids!

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For Students in Grades 5th – 8th
BBYO Connect!
*Volunteer Parent(s) Needed to Lead Group!
Do you have children in grades 5th – 8th? If yes, would they enjoy the chance to engage in more social activities with their FVJN friends, as well as meet other Jewish teens their age from the area (Elgin to Aurora)?
FVJS/FVJN is looking into starting our own chapter of BBYO Connect, specifically for this age group.

 

**Visit the Forum at www.FVJN.org to share your thoughts!

 

BBYO Connect doesn’t cost any money to join. They sponsor many regional events that all our kids would be invited to attend. If we could grow enough out here, we may even be able to get them to sponsor events in our neighborhoods!

 

BBYO Connect is the BBYO experience made just for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students (as well as 5th graders, from January on), offering social and meaningful experiences that will serve as a gateway to continued involvement in Jewish life.
The purpose of this group is to provide middle school students with a positive experience in which they can get together with camp, school, and synagogue friends, as well as meet new friends. BBYO Connect allows middle school students to begin experiencing the privileges and obligations of being a member of the Jewish and general communities. Focused on service, social, and Judaic programming, BBYO Connect builds a network of teens across North America at a critical age when middle school students begin to strengthen their identities, form social circles and prepare for high school and beyond.
Visit http://bbyo.org/connect/ for more information about this organization!
**This group needs a parent or two for coordinators/advisors. If you are interested, please let us know by emailing info@fvjn.org. Thank you!

Volunteer Corner!

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FVJN Lazarus House Volunteer Project
Volunteers needed once a month, May thru September!
FVJN individuals and families are needed to provide dinner the first Wednesday of each month to the guests of Lazarus House, a shelter located in St. Charles. Please consider helping with this FVJN Volunteer Project and sign up, now!

 

What’s involved:
1. Go to Lazarus house some time the week before the first Wednesday of the month and “shop between 9am and 9pm” for donated items. Supplement as needed, OR shop on your own at your own expense.
2. Prepare a dinner meal of your choice that will feed 85 guests.
3.  Deliver the prepared meal to Lazarus House on the Wednesday you signed up for.  The preferred time for drop off is between 6-6:45 p.m., but if needed can be dropped earlier and kept warm in their ovens.  Please specify to staff that your food be for the dinner meal.

 

Tips:
*Cook with others!
*Large casseroles as well as stews in large pots are good.
*Do the cooking a bit at a time and/or ahead of time
*Buy big casseroles (e.g. from Costco)
Please RSVP to Bethany, ASAP! bkural73@hotmail.com,630-208-6301

Have Your Say!

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The Forum at www.FVJN.org

Check it out!

You have a voice at FVJN!

Visit www.FVJN.org.

Look at the horizontal menu bar above the postings.

Click on “Forum,” the second item from the left.

Here you can read forums posted by FVJN and it’s participants.

You may also register and thus comment on existing forums,

and even create your own!

Just another great way to participate at FVJN!

 

 

FVJN Bulletin Board

Check out the new addition to our FVJN space! Just inside the lower level entrance is a new bulletin board, for all to use. Please make use of this, by posting relevant items for our community, as well as by checking it frequently for news you can use!

Current items already posted include AID’s (Association for Individual Developemnt) electronics recycling program; an upcoming BBYO event for all area middle and high schoolers, and more!