Community Easter Egg Hunt
Grace Community Church is co-sponsoring an Easter Egg Hunt with Christian radio station WayFM. The event is on Saturday, April 4th from 2 to 3:30 PM at River View Mounds Century Farm. There will be lots of events for children besides the egg hunt.
I have recently been asked, not by someone from our church but from the community, why a church would do an Easter Egg Hunt. Their arguement being that Easter is about Jesus, the cross and the resurrection, not about Easter bunnies, colored eggs or chocolate. I completely agree with that statement. The difference for us as a church is that we are trying to reach those who don’t even care to hear our “Easter Story”, but they are interested in Easter bunnies, colored eggs and chocolate.
At this event we are putting Scripture in the eggs, as well as stickers with a Christian theme in the preschool eggs and we will have a storyteller on hand to creatively tell the resurrection story and why we celebrate Easter to children who wish to listen.
Grace people, let’s get the word out to our community and have a great event. Let’s continue to show our community how much we care. Only then will they want to know our life-changing story of the cross and redemption.
What are your thoughts?
2 responses to "Community Easter Egg Hunt"
Done this way… I LOVE IT!!! Ron… how can we HELP with the Easter Egg Hunt??
We’re going even further here in Odessa, TX, at Grace Point by actually transforming our Easter Celebration into an outdoor service featuring an Egg Dash (we don’t have the geography to hide eggs) and a 45-minute outdoor “Celebration of Hope.”
That’s right, our Easter Sunday Service will include an Egg Dash (prizes too) and a 30-minute shorter time of celebration.
Our hope is to really capture the out-of-church by creating something that they are interested in (Eggs & Prizes) and exposing them to a sampling of our regular celebration.
I really had to wrestle with the implications of incorporating this “pagan” practice on the day we celebrate the most significant aspect of Christ. Yet, as we see in the scripture from Paul, we must adapt to reach. The Mars Hill message incorporated “pagan” thought, yet he redeemed it. My hope is that through our Celebration of Hope, we are able to see many redeemed!