The new year brought new events to the annual FCA scavenger hunt held down on Main Street

This year, Fellowship of Christian Athletes held its yearly scavenger hunt down on Main Street on Thursday Dec. 4. FCA helps students to come together and talk about their faith in the presence of their fellow peers. Huddle leader Sherese Melvin believes that the scavenger hunt helps make the members of FCA come closer together as a group and helps teach them their faith.

“The scavenger hunt is one of our fun events that we have every year,” Melvin said. “It is where we all get together to do a huge scavenger hunt where you’re running around with people you might not talk to on a regular basis trying to find or do odd things on the list and trying to beat the other teams while glorifying God and having fellowship. It’s one of my favorite events of the year.”

The scavenger hunt started at 5:30 p.m. and ended at 8:30 p.m. The members met at Talayna’s Pizzeria. After dinner, the members played leapfrog in the middle of the street, took pictures with the creator of the Grandma’s Cookies, and got strangers on the street to take selfies with everyone.

“FCA gives me a fun community and family in the school,” senior Hannah Wilson said. “I love FCA and seeing everyone just come together in worship.”

The event allowed friends and younger siblings of each FCA member to come and join them in the scavenger hunt.

“This event is just a little event where everyone comes and gets into groups with other people and just sort of grows closer to the other huddle members,” junior Tyler Firth said.

FCA has had these events in the past, but this year instead of meeting at the Church of the Nazarene on McClay road, they decided to make this year new and make it an event that the friends and members of FCA would remember and enjoy.

“I expect these events to continue on and bring a lot of new faces into the FCA community,” Wilson said.