THANK YOU to our wonderful volunteers who came our for the Friarsgate Egg Hunt on Saturday. You guys were awesome!!! Our team of workers were there to start setting up at 7:30 am. We had everything set up on time and all 10,000 Easter eggs spread on the baseball fields.

We had 225 registered children at the Egg Hunt and estimate somewhere between 500-600 people showed up for the day. The best part was that some of these families returned on Sunday for church! The time you spent DEMONSTRATING LOVE and INVESTING in others was well spent. THANK YOU!!!

A few exciting Children’s Ministry happenings:

(1) This past Sunday, the boys turned in 16 pounds of offering money, but the girls won with 19 pounds! We’re excited as we’re trying to reach our $75.00 goal to provide dinner for an evening for The 153 Project.

(2) The BIGGEST egg hunt Friarsgate has ever seen is only 5 days away! If you live in the Irmo area, you need to be inviting everyone on your street! We got approval from the school board today to send flyers home with kiddos at two of the local elementary schools in our immediate area.

(3) Pray for this Sunday as we talk to your children about the COURAGE Jesus had when He died on the cross. Because of what Jesus did, we can know that “we don’t have to be afraid of anything because Jesus can do anything.” We are praying for the Holy Spirit to speak to the children through the powerful message we are working on.

(4) Starting April 6th we will be offering the “Now That I Am A Christian” class during first hour to children in 3rd & 4th grade. This class walks children through what it means to be a Christian, how you become a Christian, and how you live your life as a Christian. The class will run for 6 weeks from 9-10 am on Sundays. Parents should receive more information within the upcoming week. If your child is younger than 3rd grade and may be interested, please contact me.

We’re less than 2 weeks away from the Friarsgate Egg Hunt! Join us on March 22 at 10am as we let the children lose to find 10,000 filled Easter eggs. Some eggs will even hold tokens for special prizes! We will have games, bounce house, food, and fun all for FREE!!! Invite your friends, neighbors, family, and classmates to this fun event for the family. We’re excited and hope you’ll be excited too!

10,000 Easter eggs should arrive to the church office this week. Where am I going to put them?

 Publicity will start this week as well for Friarsgate’s largest Egg Hunt! We’ll start volunteer sign-ups on Sunday. We’ll need people to run games, serve food, and help spread out eggs. We want our community to feel loved and to know we care about them and know how to have a good time.

Let’s see who reads this blog — I’m going to give out our Spring Thing spoiler here first. For Spring Thing this year we’re mixing it up. We will be hoting the “Friarsgate Egg Hunt” at Friarsgate Park. I ordered 10,000 filled Easter eggs this past week. We will have access to the pavilions, playground, and two baseball fields. The baseball fields will be used to divide younger children from older children for the egg hunt. There will be prizes for special eggs, games to enjoy, cotton candy, popcorn, and inflatables. It should be a great event that our church is able to provide for our community. Be looking out for more details we we are getting close!