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I recently wrote a blog post for Lynda Freeman about a summer event we have coming soon with Remedy Kids. Lynda asked me to share the concept of the Amazing Race and any lessons we learned from doing it last year. Here is an excerpt of the post…check out Lynda’s blog for more.

If you haven’t watched The Amazing Race, the concept is simple. Pairs of contestants race literally around the world. As they move from country to country they have to follow clues and complete sometimes silly and often unique challenges as they compete against other teams. With each clue and task the team completes they receive a new clue. At the end of each show a team may be eliminated until there are only three teams racing for the million dollar prize!   As I watched each team compete there was a common thread between them all; they enjoyed the time spent competing with their teammate. With teams consisting of parents and children, brothers and sisters, dating couples and best friends, everyone genuinely enjoyed the competition.

In that moment, I knew this was the idea I had been searching for. What started as a simple hour-long event, turned into an all day competition between the families from Remedy Church. The rules were simple…

Lynda Freeman has 40 years of experience working in Children’s Ministry. She has served as children’s director for churches of 1600 people – as well as in churches of 100 people – so she understands first hand the needs of small, average and large church Children’s Ministries. Currently, she is the editor of ’round about the church.com, an on-line webzine, is known for her reviews of curriculum and church resources and writes kidz Connection curriculum.