Goldfish and Small Groups

I was going through old Facebook pictures the other day and i stumbled upon these pictures from back in the High School days.

I had the best small group in High School. It was not like a super “holy” small group where we only prayed and such….i mean, we did that, but we also just hung out and were friends. It was great. to all you Paradigm folks…thank you.

One night only a few of us showed up and we didnt want to “talk” so we pondered for a short while what to do and Sara, our leader piped up and said,

“So, you know when people abandon babies…what if we abandoned fish?”

And that started a genius and hilarious night. We quickly went to the mall and got some goldfish and on the way out we spotted a photo booth….and these pictures are what happened….

We probably spent an hour choreographing our pictures so that on each sheet of four shots we were on them. It was probably one of the most random and fun things i have ever done.

we took them to someones house and left a note with them… i dont remember the exact wording of the note but it went something like this….

“Hi, kind citizen of Colorado Springs. I hope you can help. My mommy couldn’t keep us anymore because she spent all of her fishy welfare on booze. Please take good care of us. Please do no eat us, freeze us, fry us or flush us.
-John, Ringo, Paul, George and Yoko”

And that was the most amazing small group i ever had.

We were friends.  we laughed.  we took pictures.  we were a community. and for that season of my life it was just what i needed.

Have you had that experience with a small group?  Do you wish you could?