Family Fun Night

Drive-In Movie Theater

Friday, October 4, 6:30 p.m.

Park, grab your popcorn, sit back and get ready to be entertained. Parents, we invite you to Starry Parking with your student to enjoy the 2024 movie release, “IF” with Ryan Reynolds.  Bring your own lawn chairs and blankets if you choose to sit outside your vehicle. A chair/blanket section for students will be reserved. Concert speakers will project the sound, but you can also tune into the movie through your car radio or transistor radio if you bring one (save the car battery). Concessions will be served- popcorn sales will benefit the Student Activities Board. This fun event is available to the first 75 cars/registrants.  If you register, you will receive an email mid-September to confirm your parking spot.  If you do not respond to that email, your parking spot will be made available to those on the waiting list.  The event is free but a minimum donation of $10 per car is suggested, all funds collected to benefit AROMA -Messiah’s Sports Ministry Program. Movie will begin at 7:30 p.m.

*Audience – parents, alumni and their students and current students

5K Fun Run/ Walk

Saturday, October 5, 8:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.

It’s back! The 5K Fun Run/ Walk will cover the campus using both paved roads and the Stabler Fitness trail.

While the course will be measured, marked, and participants timed, we encourage all interested, young and old, to participate.

At Messiah, we are part of one body with many parts (1 Corinthians 12:27). We also seek to recognize the whole person as well, including one’s body, mind, socio/cultural setting, and spirituality.

As you take part in this race, we hope you find joy in recognizing you are part of a larger family and consider all the elements that make you healthy and unique.

Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.  The fee is $20.00/ person and includes a t-shirt.  Please indicate how many people in your party are running the 5K by the amount of t-shirts you order.

*Audience – alumni & their families, parents & their student

Miniature Golf

Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Join us for miniature golf, a 9-hole deluxe course with obstacles in Lower Starry Field. Time of Your Life Game Rentals is a brand-new, family-owned, and totally unique rental company based out of Lancaster, PA, ready to bring the fun to our special event.  Their holes vary in length from 16’ to over 24’ and have been carefully designed and tested to challenge and be enjoyed by players of all ages. Please register to provide estimated head count, however courts will be available first come, first serve, unless demand exceeds allotted time slot.

*Audience – alumni & their families, parents & their student

Cornhole

Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Join us for Cornhole under the tent on Lower Starry Field.  We will have 5 sets for recreational game play.  Please register to provide estimated head count, however courts will be available first come, first serve, unless demand exceeds allotted time slot.

*Audience – alumni & their families, parents & their student

Pickle Ball

Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Bring your backhand and we will provide the rest, equipment and the four tennis courts by the Yellow Breeches.  Please register to provide estimated head count, however courts will be available first come, first serve, unless demand exceeds allotted time slot.

*Audience – alumni & their families, parents & their student

SAB Homecoming Bingo

Saturday, October 5, 8:30 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.

Brubaker Auditorium

Join the Messiah University Student Activities Board for SABingo and refreshments after the Homecoming Men’s Soccer Game. Enjoy some time to hang out over some fun and friendly games of Bingo for your chance to win prizes.

*Audience – alumni & their families, parents & their student

Be sure to tour the new Sawyer Pavilion, the new concession and hospitality outdoor athletic complex, located on the perimeter of Shoemaker Field.