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The Amazing Group

Non-fiction by Chad Larson

  The "Group" started out small with about seven teens just hanging out and having good, clean fun. Over the course of a year, the Group has grown to include over 20 kids. Once people started to come to the "parties" (I use "parties" for a lack of a better word) they just kept wanting to come back. The Group is like a room full of fun and the door is open for everyone. The fun of hanging out with a group of good, Christian peers was so much fun, few could resist.

  The Group includes many different types of kids, which include: wrestlers, runners, nerds, geeks, soccer players, basketball players, golfers, musicians, snowboarders, photographer, gamers, people of multiple talents, and everything in between (including a New Yorker), all bonded together by a love of Christ and a love to have fun. The Group even crosses the bounds of school districts; teens from, South Medford, Phoenix, SOU, St. Mary’s, Stanford, and Princeton hang out with homeschoolers. How can such different people be such good friends?

  The "parties" include many exciting activities. Card games are extremely popular. Mafia is sure to get everyone fired up. With suspicious eyes looking around the room, the mafias try to act innocent but are usually caught. Even when the mafia game ends, the Group always has the energy to play a high intensity game of spoons, which usually include one or more bodies flying across the table groping for the last spoon. If everyone is too tired for these vigorous card games, then the Group will settle for kemps, nertz, or "Stryper". When the Group feels more adventurous a game of Ultimate Frisbee fires off or even some late night rounds of capture the flag.

  Church is also a huge part of the Group. From Wednesdays at R.V.F. to Saturdays at Applegate, a church service usually has almost the entire Group in attendance. The Group almost always hangs out after a church service, especially at the "pantry" on Wednesday nights. Even with all of the fun the Group has, the Group understands that God is the most important thing and should always come first.

  How can so many different people that have only known each other for about a year feel almost like family? It is a miracle that can’t be explained except that God has blessed the Group.
 

Chad Larson, age 17, contact: chizad_11@hotmail.com

Copyright 2008 Chad Larson

 Posted 06/05/2008

 


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