" Amazing Race"...With a Purpose.
Recently our church organised an Amazing Race for anyone that wanted to join in. You had to have a team of at least 5 people and preferably at least one child or youth...just to even things up.
Teams raced around the city, trying to beat the clock and be the first ones back at the starting house.
Each team had a camera and had to have at least $10 and was given assignments, clues and challenges.
Yes, there were the gross eating challenges (see Megan's picture of her trying to eat something disgusting without throwing up...yuck)
However, the brilliant part of the whole thing, (in my humble opinion) was that most of the tasks were designed to be helpful to someone else.
So, for example, each team would at some point arrive at a house of someone in the church community that was renovating and their task would be to pull all the nails out of the floor or rip up carpets.

Obviously, a great help to the people renovating to keep having teams of people arriving that were eager to work as fast as they could!

Another task was to go to any grocery store and see how many items of food you could purchase with the $10...you had to provide a receipt. The team closest to $10 got extra points in the final scoring. At the end, the items of food were all collected up and taken to the local HIV food bank, just a simple way of adding to their food shelves.

At the finish line, teams were given their time and then a technical genius put together a slide show of all the pictures that the various teams had taken. Everyone loved seeing other people struggling through the challenges of course, and it all finished with a BBQ and a swim...

Our team didn't win, but it was a great day, lots of fun and a great way to serve in community.

I wish Phil had been there stood on the mat offering a $1000000 prize at the end...Joshua may have worked a little harder...as you can see...he slacked off a little!