Joy for the Journey: Celebrating Easter- Part 4

Monday, March 24, 2008

Celebrating Easter- Part 4

Resurrection Egg Drop & some Easter baskets!

Our church offers so many ministries for all ages. Every year they usually have a Resurrection Egg Hunt. Since the weather is so lovely outside, this year they had an Egg Drop. It was so hush, hush that no one knew what was actually going to happen. It always amazes me how organized
every event is. They really put a lot

of thoughts and planning into it. The event started with some praise time. We sang 2 songs and I was able to play keyboard along with my sweet friend Paula and some other band members. It was so fun! Pastor Chris gave a short devotional that was so great for the kids. He had a Rubik's cube that was solved. Then there were 4 people standing up there with him, and each person represented a sin. The first boy had lying printed on his shirt. Pastor Chris first said that the solved Rubik's cube was our perfect relationship with Jesus through his death on the cross. When we sin, that relationship gets messed up. The boy wearing the lying shirt turned the cube a little. The next person had stealing, then cheating, then disobedience. Each person messed it up a little bit more. But through Jesus, we can have a restored relationship with God. There was a teen with a white shirt on and while Pastor Chris was explaining how we can know Jesus, this teen solved the Rubik's cube in about 2 minutes! It was a great visual and very well explained.

After the devotional, they divided the kids into age groups and they dropped eggs from the ceiling of the celebration center! Each egg was on a parachute and each kid got to catch one egg.
I really liked the fact that there wasn't a mad dash for candy or eggs and each kid got the same amount. On their way out, everyone got a bag of candy and some other goodies.
It always saddens me when they have a free-for-all with candy, because the fast kids get a whole bunch and the slower kids get pushed aside and lost in the shuffle. This was a great idea! We were done in about a half hour. I would say there were probably close to 1000 kids there. It is such a great outreach for our community!