November Reach: Scavenger Hunt

First off, the reason why I haven't written much is because nothing exciting has happened recently. We haven't had any groups for the past week, and no group with meals or activities for the past month. That makes the search for leftovers kind of interesting...

Eli topped old croissants with mashed potatoes, tater squares and  melted shredded cheese. I'm dining on a pop tart, juice box, twizzlers and carrots.

 Last night at our Student Ministry's Reach Event, we had a scavenger hunt. I walked in, was put in charge of the snack bar, and then Rothe was explaining to the guys that they might need to drive if there were lots of kids. Then he turned to me and said, "and you ARE driving". Me? Driving a car in a place that I've never really been to in an attempt to find a bunch of stuff on a scavenger hunt list? I said "okay", but was actually pretty nervous. But then after a can of Dr Pepper (the first I had in a month and a half!), I was jittery and ready to have some fun! When the kids broke off into teams, some girls chose me as their driver, but a few seconds later found some friends who were on another team, so I was off the hook. But then I realized that, for possibly the first time in my life, I actually WANTED to drive. (It was probably the Dr Pepper speaking!) I've really only driven twice on public roads since coming to Nebraska, and those were just a few miles and out of necessity. For example, last week, the Solmens took the camp van to a musical and I went with them. The van needed to be back at camp that night since the directors had an early meeting the next day, and they were discussing how to get the van back at camp and still be able to go home. From the back seat, I suggested "Um, I could just drive it back." But anyway, back to last night, there were four boys in a team who didn't have a driver, so I volunteered to drive them. However, the car I was supposed to drive was already taken, so Rothe, after being a good cop and ensuring that I was a good driver, gave me the keys to his mom's car.

Four boys in a car is difficult. I didn't run around too much, but I got exhausted from shouting things like "Put your seatbelt on NOW!" "Where am I going?" "What's on the list?" "Which lane should I be in?" "No, that's illegal!" "Turn the music down, I can't hear you!" "Is it legal to pop a "U"-ey here?" and so on. But I really did have a lot of fun. Check out some of the stuff we had to do:

Sharing a drink

Playing on a playground/Making a pyramid

My team ended up in dead last place, and they blamed it on their Oregon driver. Oh well. The important part is that this, our biggest Reach event of the year, meant that lots of new kids got to hear one of Jesus' parables,  and that they got to connect with other believers!