MegaBox
I used to go to Grace Community
Church, pastored by John McArthur. This place is pretty
big, it's bigger than some
community colleges I've been to. The main
sanctuary can hold 7500 people in it, and it's used three times every Sunday. People from all over
Los Angeles go to this
church.
I also used to be in
high school. With over 10,000 people coming to
worship God every Sunday, you can bet there would be a number of
high school kids there to. Our particular
high school group had a few hundred kids in it.
Grace Community Church is build on the
Bible. Everything must come from or be supported by
The Word or else it's just not truth. Correct doctrine based on
The Word is what they taught.
The high school group also taught doctrine. It was serious every Sunday morning, with teaching from the
Bible, but it was also run by a bunch of
crazys who do
crazy stuff when it wasn't Sunday morning. They were
devoted
christians yes, but they were
crazy devoted
christians.
Case in point. Every summer, the high school group would hold a
summer camp where a few hundred kids would spend an entire week with other christians doing nothing but getting taught
God's Will, eating, sleeping, and playing
insane games.
The biggest game we would play is MegaBox. The entire week's other games were
childplay.
MegaBox would be hyped thoughout the entire week as the
ultimate showdown between the different teams.
On the day of the event, everyone would march up to the
playing field, and line up in their teams. Councilors had placed down an square enourmous
tarp the size of a
baseball diamond. The
tarp was covered in a slippery gel and watered down to make it some sort of huge square
Slip 'n Slide. Surrounding it would be 10-15
refridgerator boxes, depending on how many teams there were. Each team had 15 minutes to decorate their box with
spray paint so they can work on their
graphitti skills (for
Jet Grind Radio, of course), as well as to
intimidate the opposition with your
1337 spray designs. Then each team picked 6
crazys to run a sort of
race. 3 people on each team would line up on opposite sides of the tarp.
With everyone set, the
ref would stand off to the side, and
blow the horn. Immediately, the first runner on each team would get his/her team's refridgerator box over his/her head, and take off in the direction of his/her
teammates on the other side.
With all the video cameras running, 10-15
refridgerator boxes with feet sticking out the bottom would rush towards the center before
smashing into each other at
high speeds. Dazed, they continued on until they reached the other side, where they could tag their teammate, and the next runner would don the refridgerator box and dash back.
Think that's
wierd? But wait! There's more! Councilers would be in the middle of the
chaos,
pushing boxes over,
clothes lining them, or changing their path of travel so that they would
colide with other boxes.
Whichever team got all 6 people across successfully and the least amound of time
won and got the most
points. Then it was time to get another 6 people, and do it all over again.
At the end of the night, everyone would get in a big room, and watch the edited videos to see the carnage (vidios with whatever
christian rock band music blasting out the speakers). Then the
Up in flames awards would be handed out. Miraculously (
God must be watching or something) I think the most
serious injury the church has ever had was a
broken finger or maybe a
concussion.