The Eggnormous Hunt

The church we are attending sponsored The Eggnormous Hunt for the first time this year. I helped organize and put on this event. Our hopes in this activity were to use the egg hunt as an outreach to those in the subdivision where the church is located and surrounding subdivisions. We passed out 2500 flyers to homes in the area. At the event, we gave out pamplets about the true meaning behind Easter and a flyer about the church to each kid. We got all those that registered email addresses and will do a follow-up visit to all these kids.

We had a wonderful turn out of 297 children that had registered plus adults in attendance. Due to our rain the past week and a forcast on Saturday of 75% chance of rain, we decided to move our event indoors to a school gym. It created a crowded environment of controlled chaos but seemed like everyone really enjoyed it and was thankful to still get to hunt and play. We had carnival-like games set up on one end of the gym, face painting, free popcorn and water and balloons, and of course the egg hunt or egg pick up which included 10,000 eggs split into 3 age divisions on the other half of the gym. It was a great time and I pray that someone in attendance at the event also came to church Sunday and more importantly will come to know Christ because of this Eggnormous Hunt.

Look at all those people and eggs ready for the first egg hunt.

He has got this egg thing figured out. After picking up the first egg stopped to open it and see what was inside.

Brayden in action, moving as fast as he could from one egg to the next.

Checking out all their eggs.

Trying out golfing for a prize

Brayden got his face painted with a snake by our HomeTeam friend Becky