Just like the ones I used to know…
Wait a minute! White EASTER? Are you kidding me? It’s April, and this is Texas, for crying out loud. And not the panhandle, either. This is North Central Texas – you know, the land of mild winters and blazing hot summers. Yet we’ll all be wearing white shoes this year…because they’ll be covered in SNOW.
Okay, so we didn’t get an actual accumulation, but it DID snow in parts of North Texas today, and we received a flurry of “God’s confetti” to grace our church’s Easter Egg Hunt today. What an interesting site for those of us who earlier this week were wearing tank tops and shorts, basking in 80+ degree weather.
Despite the cold and threat of inclement weather, we had a wonderful turnout at our annual PCBC Easter Egg Hunt and Kid’s Celebration. We made some major changes this year, most of which worked, and all of which were well-received. We had a speaker, Bill Buchanan of Team Recreation Ministries (www.teamrecreation.com), who provided a high-energy, fully interactive program which had parents and children alike dancing in the aisles, cheering their teams, acting silly, and having a great time together. Following that, we drew for door prizes and had our Egg Hunt. We had a hard-working team of guys put together a fenced grid so that we had four separate quadrants for different age groups. We “hid” over 6,000 eggs, all of which were stuffed by volunteers! It took us about 45 minutes with 15 or so volunteers to “hide” all those eggs – but the 200 or so kids who attended had that lawn CLEANED in about 10 minutes flat! What fun it was to hunt eggs in the snow flurries! Then back inside for cookies, punch, and pictures with the Easter bunny. I heard so many positive comments on the day and the program, and it really looked like families were having fun TOGETHER. In my position at the church, I spend so much time with children that it’s really neat when I can have a part in planning an event that brings families together to build memories, have fun, and enjoy being together.
Though the snow has ended, the memories of our “white” Easter will remain, and the Great Easter Flurry of 2007 will be an event to talk about for years to come!