A New Way to Serve Pumpkin

While the December Sabbath Recorder will appear soon at our website, I want to preview something fun that will be in the January issue. And since some of you might have more time to look at YouTube this week of Thanksgiving, here’s a heads-up on an SDB story. The article comes from Valerie Probasco.

The Shiloh and Marlboro, New Jersey, SDB youth entered the Annual Pumpkin Chuckin’ contest hosted by another local church. The youth had to build a catapult or trebuchet (sure looks like a catapult) that could hurl a 5-to-7 pound pumpkin as far as possible (with no compressed air or explosives, guys…).

Anyway, there was a distance competition and an accuracy competition. When the SDBs showed up with their trebuchet on the appointed day, they felt a bit overwhelmed—their model was about half the size of the other four competitors. But do you remember the story of David and Goliath?

I won’t “spill the pumpkin seeds,” but if you can’t wait for the excellent article, check out “Shiloh SDB Trebuchet” parts 1 and 2 on YouTube. Each video is about eight minutes.