New Date For Second Annual Corn Hole for the Kids Tournament Announced Scholar Suggests a Weeklong Experiment in a Forgotten But Familiar Vice

Achievement Centers for Children & Families (ACCF) and Hopportunities are partnering to host the second Annual Cornhole for the Kids Tournament. The event will be held on Saturday, February 25 beginning at 1 p.m. at Hopportunities, 440 NE 5th Ave., Delray Beach.

Cost per team is $65.00, and proceeds will benefit ACCF. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place teams. There will also be raffles, music, food and drink. There will be a pizza food truck and live entertainment after the tournament concludes.

“We have a really fun day planned for all of our participants,” said Hopportunities founder John Macatangay. “Come out ready to play, enjoy food, drink, music and camaraderie– all for a great cause. We are offering 10% off to anyone who takes Uber or Lyft, walks over or gets dropped off.”

“John is a fantastic community partner to so many non-profit organizations within Delray Beach; his dedication to our fundraising success directly impacts the children & families we serve,” said ACCF Chief Development Officer Jessica Hall, about Macatangay. “Hopportunities is a fun venue, and they host cornhole tournaments, so when I approached John with the idea of bringing the fundraiser back to his venue, he was excited to partner with us again.”

Event, food & beverage, prize and swag bag sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information on sponsorship opportunities or to register your team, please visit www.achievementcentersfl.org

In addition, Virgin Voyages has donated a cruise for two for the event’s raffle. It is good for a Sea Terrace Cabin on (almost!) any of their voyages in 2023. The winner can choose from Mediterranean voyages like French Daze and Ibiza Nights sailing from Barcelona, Greek Island Glow sailing from Athens, or from Miami there are short get-aways to Virgin’s Beach Club at Bimini or deeper into the Southern Caribbean to islands like Aruba, Curacao and St. Croix.

Visiting ethicist Dr. Rebecca DeYoung invited a PBA audience Monday evening to join a conversation experiment she has seen open up deeper levels of friendship “and a better way of doing relationships.”

Her presentation, one of three she gave in the Provost’s Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series, examined vainglory, “a largely forgotten character problem” that actually might be our most familiar vice, she said. DeYoung, Calvin University professor and author, began her explanation of vainglory with Jesus’ words: “Be careful not to let your righteousness be seen by men.”

“It’s all about appearances,” she said. “We just want attention from people.”

Social media has vaulted vainglory to a new level, DeYoung said, but being overly dependent on adulation from others was an issue long before the internet arrived. “Have you ever exaggerated something about yourself in order to impress people listening?” she asked. “We all know how to play this game. Much of what we do with our words is to manufacture, puree and engineer a wonderful image of ourselves.”

One way to detach from the excessive need of adulation from others, she said, is to “take away the audience.” Sitting in solitude, in silence before God, “you don’t have to perform.” Our problem, she said, springs from “the fact that we don’t trust God to give us what we need. Take the larger view. The real validation is who I am before God.”

But what about when you are among others? “What if you had to let your actions speak for themselves?” DeYoung asked. Addressing students, faculty, staff and guests in the DeSantis Family Chapel, she gave the homework assignment she has given to her Calvin students and to her own family: Try going for a week silencing all talk about yourself.

“My students found it excruciatingly difficult,” said DeYoung, “And I concur with that assessment.” But her students reported that as they struggled to “shut up about themselves,” by the end of the week, they saw something powerful happening in their social interactions: they were creating space for other people to talk and share with them.

Listening and receiving from others, DeYoung said, made a different level of interaction and intimacy possible. She has challenged students with this experiment “semester after semester,” she said, and afterwards, “they pretty consistently said to me, ‘I feel like my friendships are better.’

“Maybe God is inviting us into a new and better way of doing relationships,” she said.

Dr Rebecca DeYoung

In addition to her evening lecture, on Monday morning DeYoung spoke to a large chapel audience at Family Church Downtown, sharing on the topic “Why Are You Angry? Exploring the Deadly Sin of Wrath.” Tuesday morning in the Graduate School of Ministry Chapel at Memorial Presbyterian Church, she spoke on the subject of her newest book, “Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies.”

DeYoung earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, and has taught ethics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy for more than 20 years.

Provost Dr. Chelly Templeton praised DeYoung for her thought-provoking presentations during her visit to PBA. “We are blessed to be a Christian liberal arts university,” she said, “because we are free to have ideas and exchange thoughts and invite speakers on topics we may not have thought about, that may not be in the sphere of our major. Dr. DeYoung has challenged the mind and touched the heart in a way that speaks to all of us.”