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Posts by Chris Arends

Prepared. For Life.®

Prepared. For Life.®

While growing up in East Texas, my parents got me involved in Scouts. I have great memories of Cub Scout activities like the Scout Fair and the Pinewood Derby. After crossing over into Boy Scouts, I learned valuable life skills such as cooking and learning to swim. I was exposed to many things that I […]

It prepares you.

It prepares you.

introducing me to death (and thus, to the precious nature of life). This reality hit home with the loss of my friends Scott Stephens, Steve Wester, and Chris Phillips when they were lost in 1973 in on a camping trip in the piney woods of East Texas. Quite a lesson for a 16 year old […]