This morning a group of about 30 of us huddled together at Steeplechase Park to decide whether or not we should follow thru with The Big Hunt. I was moved to see the commitment from our church family. They blow me away.
Chris Bealand reminded us of Romans 8:28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. The Big Hunt and The Connection Church are God’s. He is bigger than The Big Hunt and He can do with us as He wants. And we know that His purpose for us will prevail.
In the end, it was cancelled (for today), postponed (we’ll do the eggs tomorrow instead of KidStore), rescheduled (maybe a different event), reimagined due to inclement weather. That’s a nice way of saying, "The weather stinks." It’s crazy cold, soaking wet, and windy. What can you do?
So, we have 30,000 Easter Eggs left over. My advice, make sure you get to TCC on Sunday morning with your Easter baskets to gather plenty of eggs. So in a sense, we’re moving the event to our Sunday morning services, at least the eggs element.
Once again, a big thanks to Jennifer Williams for her incredible job of bringing some much needed organization to the Big Hunt planning. And we had an incredible team that worked hard and kept believing til the call was made to not do the hunt today.
Here’s some good thoughts:
- We got lots of advertising on The River 102.3
- Our groups pulled together to prepare for the event
- Lots of people in our church stepped up to get connected
- There’s a lot of buzz in the community about TCC
- With the weather the way it is, maybe by Sunday morning, people will be a little stir crazy and want to get out for worship
- This is a stretch, but perhaps people who were going to just come to The Big Hunt will be led to check out our services on Sunday instead
Even worse, what are the people in Austin going to do at the annual Spamorama Festival? What do you do with all that Spam? Talk about an event with purpose.
Let’s regather our thoughts and create a community event in the coming weeks/months. Maybe a Summer Kick-Off.