A couple of weekends from now the church here at Friendship Community is going to show a drive-in movie on our ballfield on Friday and Saturday nights, June 20 & 21. For months we have been talking among the staff about what would be a good movie to show. Something that all ages could watch and that would be a fun family experience. After discussing some movies that have been out recently, we finally decided to show "ET"(not Entertainment Tonight but ET the Extra Terrestrial).

Yeah, it's an old one from 1982 but it's a great story and I am looking forward to seeing it on the gigantic screen that the Hershey Drive-In will be bringing for our event. The screen is higher than our church building. It will be a free event and if we have nice weather we may have 600 or more people as we did last summer when we had a couple of drive-in weekends.

The thing that makes "ET" special is that it is a real family (well as real as movies can do) with family difficulties and in the middle of all that something special happens. It seems scary at first but then ET becomes part of the family, in some ways at least.

If you live nearby, come on out and join in the fun. Admission is free, you can bring your own food and drink if you like, and there will also be food and drinks available for purchase if you like by the Hershey Drive-In team. Drive on in, stay in the car and tune your car radio in to the movie, or bring a lawn chair and a portable radio to sit out and watch and hear.

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