Easter Fun, with Purpose

What a wonderful Easter weekend.  I enjoyed several highlights, including Thursday Lord's Supper service, a Friday meditation on the death of Christ, helping to sponsor a local Easter Egg Hunt, wonderful Sunday morning Easter service, and seeing our congregation donate 10 Easter Baskets to the Ronald McDonald House.  Thank you so much,  SHBC, for sponsoring all of these wonderful activities.

I wanted to show a couple of photos from the Town and Country Mobile Home Park.  We delivered over 1200 eggs to this location and had over 80 children in attendance.  We have seen increased attendance each year we have done this event, and I hope we will continue to make an impact as we prepare for more service opportunities in this area.

Some rewarding moments from the Easter Egg Hunt:
1.  Seeing happy children with more eggs and candy than they knew what to do with.
2.  Hearing parents thank us for taking the time to think of their children.
3.  Seeing our puppet team perform with creativity and joy.
4.  Seeing some of our church families interacting with unchurched members of the T and C community.
5.  Getting to share the Gospel of Hope.
6.  Recognizing faces and families who are allowing us to become more than the church down the road.
7.  Dreaming about the possibilities.
8.  Pops in his Rabbit hat.
9.  And, of course, the Alligator song by the puppets.

We did not have any immediate confessions of faith by those who attended, but we are building were are starting to see fruit and trust.  Pray with me that the long-term goal of this work--growth in the Kingdom of God--will come.  For that is our purpose--to present the Gospel through relationships.