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Showing posts with label Team Building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Team Building. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

AN UNBROKEN EGG

Last night three members of our Pastoral Team (Linda Savaet, Liz Sargent, and Laurie Mahosky) led our monthly Team Leader Team meeting (we have twelve teams that lead our church)!
Linda, Laurie, Liz
As we entered, we were offered candy.  The color we chose determined the table where we were to sit.  The others at our table became our team!
Dennis Mansfield, Suzie Wiley, Zonda Haase
All the necessary ingredients for pizza were on the table.  After a brief devotional on teamwork, we were set free to build the perfect pizza.  [They were baked and served at the end of the evening].
Debbie VanArsdale and Debbie Haire
Then each team was given $150 in play money.  We were given the opportunity to purchase items in an auction.  We would use these items to build a recepticle into which we would drop an egg from our 'Eagle's Nest" (sound booth) - a ten foot drop!

VERY COMPETITIVE bidding took place for premium items like a five gallon bucket, some plastic shopping bags, bag of Easter egg grass, an old newspaper, and a box of rice crispees. 
Justin Sargent and Brady Sullivan
When the auction ended, we built our recepticles and moved to the Eagle's Nest where each team - in turn - dropped their egg (two times to eliminate ties).  Only one team dropped it twice without breaking the egg! 
One team resorted to prayer!
Then we went back to eat pizza and discuss how effectively we had worked together as teams.  Prizes were awarded and everyone helped clean up! 

It was a fantastic evening of learning about teamwork!

April Jacobsen, Hal Haire, Karen Sullivan

Thursday, September 1, 2011

ZIPPING

Would you like to fly through the air at thirty-five miles per hour at anywhere from thirty to one-hundred-fifty feet above ground?

If your answer is "Yes!" then try zipping! 

Debbie and I did it yesterday at Hawknest Mountain in North Carolina - and it was a wonderful two hours! 

The guides were very helpful and patient.  One was always ahead of you and the other sent you off.  Although you're operating far from the ground, you are always cabled to a secure spot.  Safety is highly prioritized!

Our group of ten really bonded and cheered one another on.  We had so much fun!  At the end, the guides told us that we were the best group they'd ever led! 

It was a bit of a rush the first time you lift your legs and start flying.  All you hear is the zipping noise made as you slide along the cable.  The views were outstanding from 5,000 feet high in the Smokies! 

If you ever get the chance, spend the money!  Our group included a woman celebrating her eighty-first birthday!  You can do this!