Eggciting Things at Central!
Another year, another Glow in the Dark Egg Hunt completed. And it was a great one. If you were there – you know and could feel the excitement in the building. If you missed it, what you missed was a building packed with kids and families – excited to hunt eggs and do crafts and play games and have fun together – and a building packed with volunteers from Central – both young and old – excited to see other people excited.
The purpose of events like the egg hunt are to reach-out to people who are not yet a part of the church, and perhaps, any church. It’s about planting seeds, opening doors, sparking relationships, and reminding people that the church – and more importantly, Jesus – is for them.
There’s a lot of thoughts I have about the egg hunt, but here’s a few quick reflections.
First, your help was amazing.
Thank you for serving! It was great to see some of our youngest kids running games and leading others, and it was equally great to see some of our older members helping the youngest visitors with crafts and food and everything in between. It was a total church-wide team effort, and it was a joy to be a witness to. It reminded me of our potential, as a church, to work together to make an impact on others. With all of our various gifts and abilities and places in life,
This is how the body of Christ is meant to work: together, for the good of those not yet a part of it.
Second, your labor is not in vain.
Whether it was the wall or table you painted to freshen up the Kraft room, or the decoration you made to keep the egg hunt organized, or the family you greeted as they walked in the entrance, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15, it’s all good. I wrote about this in a previous blog, but it’s a helpful reminder:
In the Lord, our labor is not in vain.
Now, we don’t know how God will use our work, but we can trust that He will. Maybe the egg hunt was just what some family or child needed on that day – and nothing more. Maybe the egg hunt planted a seed in someone’s heart that they actually need Jesus in their lives. Maybe the egg hunt was a reminder that church isn’t so bad – and in fact – maybe church can be good. We just don’t know – but God does.
Third, it made me think about other ways we can do things like this.
How can we use the various gifts and experience we have to serve others? How can we use the resources we have (like our building) to reach out? How can we be a light in the dark, reminding people that God is for them, and not against them?
It’s exciting to think and dream about how God might be calling us to do more things to reach others like this.