Personal Narrative: My Church's Amazing Race Scavenger Hunt

The Bible teaches that we should treat others how we would want to be treated; this past summer showed me how this applies to life in my church’s Amazing Race Scavenger Hunt. The hunt took place in a little town called Charlevoix located right on Lake Michigan. Around 20 adults from my church were all staying together in an enormous house near my family’s condo. A few of the leaders, one of which was my mother, had devised the race as a team building exercise. We would complete challenges at different locations in town. There were to be split up into three teams: Red, Blue, and Green. The day before the race we drew colors to see what team we would get; I got Blue. There were six people per team, plus a non-partial team leader to keep track of points and give us the supplies we would need in fulfilling each objective. Just from that I was told, I knew that

The smell of scrambled eggs and hash browns had not yet left the room as I weaved my way through people and chairs leftover from that morning’s small worship service. Finally, I made my way to the hall where one of my teammates was looking for the rest of our group. We searched around for a bit until we finally found our team leader calling annoyedly, “Blue Team! Blue Team right here!” When all the groups had been gathered and seated, the three team leaders stood at the front of the room and explained what we were to do that day. To start, our leader would give us a clue that would lead us to the location of the first challenge and instruct us on what to do. After completing the objective, we would receive the next clue, and continue on until the race would finish where we started. When the leaders finished talking, a prayer was said, and we received our first clue. The clue said that the challenge was to commence at Depot Beach, and we were to construct a float for a team member to