8th Family Fun Festival signals back to school

Pottsboro, Texas
By B.J. Kirkpatrick

The Billy Vier Family Festival has become a Pottsboro tradition that signals 

Pottsboro Family Festival

back to school for local youngsters.  Named after Billy Vier, who was the Pastor of the Preston Community Church, the festival  is now sponsored by the Pottsboro Ministerial Alliance and is held the last Friday before Pottsboro ISD begins fall classes.

Pastor Vier and the Preston Community Church organized the first Family Festival in 2006 and it attracts over 1,000 visitors each summer.   Pastor Vier passed away a few years ago and the Pottsboro Ministerial Alliance and tons of volunteers prepare games, food booths and fun activities for a night of free family fun.

This year, the free fun includes live music, bounce houses, face painting, a dunking booth, duck pond, wall climb and food booths featuring hot dogs, cotton candy, snow cones, homemade ice cream and more.  School supplies will be given out for all ages.

Everything is FREE!  The 8th Annual Family Festival will be held in Friendship Park in Pottsboro, on August 22, 2014 from 5pm - 9pm and is open to the public.

The Pottsboro Ministerial Alliance is a cooperation of six churches in Pottsboro that work together to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the whole community, including an annual high school senior scholarship award and an annual Easter Sunday sunrise worship service.

PMA also organizes and serves an annual Thanksgiving meal for the entire community, and more than 300 people gather in fellowship and worship for this popular holiday event.

PMA also coordinates and conducts  the ”Great Days of Service” events.  For two days, they scour our community looking for and meeting the needs of residents in Pottsboro and the surrounding areas.  Hundreds of people from our local churches mow yards, wash windows, build wheel chair ramps, repairing roofs and decks.

To learn more about the Pottsboro Ministerial Alliance and to find contact information for the area churches, visit http://www.texomaconnect.com/Churches_Lake_Texoma.html.