MISSION TRIP INFO:

Dates are July 19 – 25.

TOOL TRAINING SUNDAY 5PM

TEE SHIRT DESIGN TEAM MEETS AT 4:00 PM ON TUESDAY

Click HERE to watch the video.

Click HERE for a Permission Slip.

This year, we will be traveling to exotic Groton, Connecticut for our 2009 Mission trip.

Not much is known about this heretofore insignificant state. Here are some true and interesting facts:

In Hartford, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands! True law on the books.

It is against the law in Connecticut for a guy to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship. Also absolutely true!

In colonial New Haven cut pumpkins were used as guides for haircuts to ensure a round uniform style. Because of this fashion, people from Connecticut were nicknamed "pumpkin-heads."

Connecticut is home to the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948).

The first lollipop-making machine opened for business in Connecticut in 1908. Also the first typewriter, sewing machine, can opener, submarine, vacuum cleaner, tape measure, pay phone, revolver, law school and frisbee were all from Connecticut.

The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names and was published in Connecticut in 1878. A man named Roger Olander was listed but was soon removed because of a bounced check payment on his phone bill.

Connecticut is a small state in the northeastern US and is best known for being the place that soda cans land after New Yorkers throw them out of their car windows.

The highest point in Connecticut is Mt. Frissel, at 2380 feet, which is where Connecticut residents get to throw the empty soda cans back into New York.

The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, was built in Groton, Connecticut in 1954, after which it turned on its creators and went on a fearsome, building-destroying rampage through the city.