Easter in the Park

So this is a week late, well more by now, but wanted to share and actually show pictures of our Easter. We had a busy weekend for Easter, because Saturday we volunteered at Hop in the Park, which was Atlantic Station's Easter event.  There were all kinds of things going on, lots for kiddos to do.
They could make bunny masks:

Side walk chalk!

The ever popular bounce castle thing:

Ballons!

All sorts of games, complete with sugary prizes.  Parents I know you appreciated us hopping them up on sugar. (Pun intended)

Popcorn!

Bubbles! Bubbles and more Bubbles!

How many jelly beans are in here?  

(also our invites for our outdoor Easter service the next day)

We also for the first time in our 3 year partnership with Atlantic Station were able to both wear our church logo and actually talk to people about our church and what we are there for.

This is Karen and Connie. Connie is our director of mobilization and did a great job organizing everything for our event.

So you may be asking yourself, well what did you two do?
Lu was a face painter for approximately 4 hours.  Here she is hard at work.

I was sweating and working hard. Working hard? as a volunteer?  Yep.  This was me for the first hour or so.
Ready for my close up with and kiddos or puppies that wanted their picture made.  This was the humane society's booth and thankfully I only had to help out for a little while. :)  It was pretty fun though cause I was making crazy faces and you couldn't even tell.


All in all it was a lot of fun.  We had a blast and we sure were blessed the next day to see the fruits of our labor as we had around 370 people show up (kids included) to our Easter service outside in the park. It was a great day of celebration and the word was preached, several hearing for the first time.  My favorite thing about our outdoor service is that some people unexpectedly end up at church as they are just walking by and decide to stick around.  God is so good and our Easter was really great.


Wanted to share a little with you guys to get a taste of our service.  We opened with Revelation Song mixed with a Spoken Word piece by Celita Lewis.  Hope you guys enjoy.