Easter Egg Hunt

Landsdale Community
Easter Egg Hunt

This years Egg Hunt was a complete success. We had 109 children register and participate with their parents.  There had to be over 175 people in the hall because it was totally packed!   We had craft stations, Easter egg hunts according to age groups, jelly bean count , colouring in contest, free popcorn and drinks, but MOST importantly we had a story time where Melissa read the real meaning of Easter.  Each child was given an opportunity to make a choice and decide whether they were going to "believe" Jesus was alive.   "Kids Club" also sand two songs for the audience.  It was beautiful! The kids were fascinated and you could see their mind clicking over. It was a very busy,  but fantastic day.  Melissa and I have been organizing this for weeks and months, but we literally got up Saturday morning at 7:00am and never sat down till 9:00pm and that was with a WHOLE pile of everything left sitting in our living room at our house.   It is a lot of work to gather everything together and then haul it down to the haul for an event set up and then bring it all back.  We used every table and chair that our "rental" facility had to offer!

I also forgot to mention. We never did get our crafts that we ordered until 8:00am Monday morning. So, we had to go out and purchase all new stuff.  We had ordered three weeks ago our craft items and paid for three day shipping. But, UPS was very kind and ended up giving us back 1/2 of our shipping for not getting our package to us in a timely manner. 

We had quite a few emails after the event from people who have never participated in anything with us in the past and they kept commenting on what a great event it was and that the love of Jesus just poured out of our church family.  We have lots of following up to do!  So pray with us that we would be able to connect people to Jesus in a powerful way and that they would see the need for him in their lives.