Paintball July 29th!!

Dear Parents,

Our next summer event is July 29^th and we are going paintballing! We are going to meet at the church at 10 am and get back at 4pm. We will be going to a place called Paintball Brothers Inc. (address – 3906 CR 218, phone # 608-8299) out in Middleburg to play paintball. This event will cost $45 which includes, use of the tactical paintball field (the best in the Jacksonville area), all the equipment necessary (paintball gun, mask, & CO2), 1,000 paintballs, and lunch. You may bring your own equipment (gun, mask, etc) but it does not change the price (the field charges whether you have your own stuff or not). I suggest that you leave your equipment at home and just use what is rented to us. YOU CANNOT BRING YOUR OWN PAINTBALLS! For safety reasons the fields we are going to will not allow us to bring our own paintballs so you MUST leave those at home.

If you have never been paintballing before here are a couple things you should know:

• · Paintballs can hurt – make sure you wear layers of clothes to help protect your body. You must wear some kind of pants (jeans, camo, etc). I suggest a long sleeve shirt with another shirt over. Also no flip-fops you must wear closed toe shoes or boots. You will be wearing a protective mask (provided by the paintball place) to protect your face. The more clothes you wear the less the paintballs will hurt, but remember its July and the fields are outdoors….It will be hot! If you wear shorts or flip-flops of any sort you will not go paintballing with us! (Also bring a change of clothes for the ride home)
• · There are rules – The rules will be laid out in detail at the paintball fields from our instructor which generally include no short range shots and during game play never take off your protective mask (provided by the paintball place). If you break any of the rules laid out by the instructor at the field you will not play the rest of the day!

You can also check out www.warpig.com/paintball/newbie/by.newbie.shtml for an interesting article about paintballing from a beginner’s prospective.

Thank you so much for being a part of our summer events here at Petra Baptist Church! If you have any questions or concerns please email me at josh@petrabaptist.com or call me at 904.612.9799.

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