Whether you are diving into a pool or just having fun with friends, you will enjoy this summertime treat. Invite guests to come swimming. You don’t have to own a big pool. You could even have a small child’s pool and dip your feet as you soak in the sun. Ask each guest to bring their favorite dip and what they like to dip into it. Some suggestions are: spinach dip and Hawaiian bread, carrots and ranch dip, chips and salsa or cheese dip. You can go to the sweet side by doing a caramel dip with apples or a chocolate chip cheese ball with chocolate graham cracker sticks. If you have a chocolate fountain or a fondue pot you could provide the chocolate and ask guests to provide items to dip like fresh berries, marshmallows, graham crackers, gummy bears, pound cake, or almost any cookie.
You can also visit MMCW’s recipe box for more dip ideas including Easy Fruit Dip, Quick Buffalo Chicken Dip, To-Die-For Cheese Dip, and Mexican Corn Dip.
For party decorations, why not go with beach towels and pool toys in bright vibrant colors? Play fun beach music to set the tone. After a while in the sun you may want to move indoors to watch a funny movie. Evan Almighty is a good movie that is about a man God asked to dip into faith. Your guests will laugh a lot, but you will also have the opportunity to talk about a real Bible character that had to choose to believe God over what the world was saying. In the end it saved both Noah and his family as they dipped (submerged themselves) into faith with God.
A fun take-home favor could be a recipe of your favorite dip or even a prepackaged bag of the ingredients to be mixed at their convenience. Include the recipe and a kind word thanking them for coming.
I used this party as a kick-off for our women’s ministry last year. I used the acrostic Dive In Please for the word dip. The women were encouraged to dive into women’s ministry. We had sign-up areas for participation in upcoming events. The party was held at a local neighborhood swimming pool and the movie was shown at the end of the evening in the clubhouse.
Page Hughes is married to Dr. Les Hughes and together they have four children. She is a speaker, author, and pastor’s wife. Along with friend Cindy Simpson, she is leading the Anchoring Deep in God’s Word Facebook group where women are reading through the Bible in 2013. Visit her blog at http://pagehughes.com/.
We’re throwing back Thursday with a blast-from-the-past post and you can join in too! Link one of your favorite oldie-but-goodie homemaking posts from your blog with us on Thursday. Throughout June we’ll throwback on a different topic each week. Go ahead, dust those links off and let’s throwback!
Reading God’s Story Schedule today, 6/27/13: 2 Kings 9 – 11, 2 Chronicles 22:7 – 23:21.
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About Page Hughes
Page Hughes is a Jesus loving party girl who is always ready to have fun! She has been married to Dr. Les Hughes for over 30 years and they reside in Alabaster, Alabama. Les and Page have been blessed with 4 amazing children and 4 fabulous grand children who are the source of many great illustrations. Page loves people well through ministering to their hurts, cooking delicious meals, and partying with the purpose of leading others to a deeper relationship with Jesus. Page’s goal in life is to go to heaven when she dies and take as many people as she can with her.
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