Next Ladies night is scheduled for Friday, May 23rd at Sandi’s house. (804 Hillside Ave. Middletown) We’ll probably get started around 8pm so if you’re a lady, come hang out!

This week the YAG group is in charge of the PRAYER. Please contact Jay Ervin if you’re interested in helping out.

This summer ORB is offering a unique opportunity for college aged students to try out being an ORB High School leader for the summer! This means you will help plan and run the Thursday night group from start to finish! If you are interested in participating in this, please see Jared for more information and for an application.

The ORB Service Group has a number of great serving opportunities available to the community. Every Thursday from 10am – 1pm help serve food to those in need at Lunch Break (you can also help serve food any other day of the week there as well!), the first Tuesday of each month a group from ORB cooks and serves food to families of sick children at the Ronald McDonald House, every Sunday after the ORB service, you can participate in bringing communion to people’s homes. If you’re interested in receiving more information about any of the service opportunities, please contact CDLC, Susan, Emily or visit: http://orbcare.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, May 27th there will be NO YAG. However, the following Tuesday, June 3rd there will be a YAG BBQ…more details to follow!

This Monday (even though it's Memorial Day), there will be a group going to play Roller Hockey from 7pm-9pm at Kunkel, in Leonardo. Talk to Jay N. for more information. FYI you need your own sticks and blades.

The next Hutchy Bears game, ORB’s own softball team, will be at Count Basie’s field on Sunday, June 1st at 12:30 pm…NO GAME THIS WEEKEND!

Saturday, June 14th is our next scheduled YAG Field trip to Princeton, NJ! The day’s activities will include a lunch stop at Tiger Noodles Chinese Restaurant, the Bent Spoon for dessert and Princeton Record Exchange for cheap CDs.

ORB now has two blogs up! One collects all the artwork, photography, short stories, philosophical musings, etc of this wonderful talented community! The Bus The Metaphor. Website is at thebusthemetaphor.blogspot.com. If you want to submit anything, send to chris@theorb.org.

There is also a blog for the service group, that talks about volunteer opportunities, world issues, local issues, and discussion as to how Christ calls us to work for social justice and serve the poor and needy. It's called ORB CARE. CARE standing for Christ Actively Restoring the Earth. Website is at orbcare.blogspot.com

If anyone is interested in going skateboarding contact Tom Sasso! And he is starting up Sidewalk chalk/Mural Time Club! If interested in this contact Tom!

YAG has a new Box/Bag for giving. If you don't make it to the Sunday service and would like a place to give some money to, please feel free to do so on Tuesday nights at YAG. Even just a couple of bucks or spare change. Anything you WANT to give, there is NO OBLIGATION here!

Lauren Elio's Uncle has a kitten that he is willing to give to someone who really wants a kitten and would take really good care of it. Please contact Lauren Elio if interested!

Joe Reilly (Lauren Elio's Friend who was there this past Tuesday) has a 5 piece Ludwig drum set he is wanting to sell. All hardware and cymbals included. He is asking 500$. If interested, contact Joe at: jreilly6@gmail.com

Kathleen Gill wants to go camping, if you want to too, call her up or e-mail her and get a group together!

Photography Club is being started by Brandon Murray. If you are interested in photography and would like to be a part of this, contact Brandon.

Dan DeLucia is collecting old, new, broken, and/or crushed crayons. If you have old boxes or bags of this stuff, let him know and he will take them off your hands for a project he is working on!

Pucci's Band is playing this coming Tuesday at Chubby's and since there is no YAG, why not go out and support them? Contact Matt Pucci for more info!

IF ANYONE IS STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION TO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO ABOUT THIS, JOE JOYCE (who spoke at YAG once), IS OFFERING HIMSELF UP TO YOU! PLEASE CONTACT HIM BY CALLING THE ORB OFFICE (732-530-7737) AND HE WILL GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU OR THEY CAN GIVE YOU HIS CONTACT INFORMATION!