Following the success of its first Community Fun Day, Friends in Action International (FIA) will hold its second annual Community Fun Day on Saturday, May 20, at its headquarters at 3950 E. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown. The free event, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. rain or shine, will feature activities for people of all ages.

The event will provide the community with an opportunity to learn about FIA's mission work around the world through interactive activities. Adults can test their skills in the excavator obstacle course competition, operating the boom and bucket to pick up and move objects, just like FIA uses it to move trees, brush and soil in Papua New Guinea or Vanuatu. Adults and children can use a hand well pump like the ones used in Africa to experience fetching water.

Children can jump and enjoy the bounce house, which is reminiscent of the Amanda Brandt Memorial Playground that is part of the community transformation work in Rama Cay in Nicaragua. They can also enjoy barrel train rides, scramble for candy when it is shot out of the Candy Cannon each hour and take a picture sitting on the skid loader. Younger children can use Tonka trucks to level airstrips at the corn table, which is a "sandbox" full of corn, used instead of sand, with toy construction vehicles. At the craft table, children can paint toys for children in Vanuatu who are without them.

The Kids Cookie Break Party will be on hand from 9 a.m. to noon. Visitors may stop by the tent to request a song, see the cookie car and get some free goodies and Chick-fil-A cookies while supplies last.

New this year will be a pulled pork Smokin' Hot Cook-Off Competition. Spots are still available to enter the competition. FIA will provide three, 10-pound pork butts and rolls. Preparation can be done at home, but cooking must be done on-site. Pulled pork sandwiches will be available for attendees for a small donation.

The Mission Partner tent will provide inspirational stories of God at work through other service and mission organizations like I-Tec, Ethnos360 and Crossworld. Children can learn facts and hear about outreach impacts through a display presenting pictures from FIA's five countries of service.

FIA is a local nonprofit that supports mission work in areas of limited infrastructure worldwide by using construction projects and other practical services to spread the message of the Gospel to people who have never heard it before.

Volunteers are being recruited for trips through the end of the year in the U.S. and Mexico and next year's trips to West Africa, Vanuatu, Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico. All types of skilled and unskilled laborers are welcome.

FIA invites the community to join its efforts through prayer, financial support, donation of construction materials or participation in a short-term work trip. For more information or to register for the cook-off, contact FIA at 717-546-0208, email fia-usa@fiaintl.org or visit http://www.fiaintl.org.