Unreal. Seriously Unreal.
When we planned to host an Egg Hunt this Easter, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We started with the idea of doing a big 10,000 Egg Hunt. That didn’t feel right, so we jumped it to 25,000.
Then as I was praying about the content for the series we did “Bet the Farm,” I had this sense that we needed to double it. I’ll never forget Megan’s face when I told her that I thought we should double it! Priceless.
A couple months ago, we were hoping (seriously hoping!) to have 2500 people show up. That was the BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal) we had set for ourselves.
We were BLOWN AWAY TODAY! Over 6,500 people showed up. Traffic was backed up for miles. We ran out of parking and seating. Wow. Just wow.
50,000 Eggs were gobbled up in just a couple of minutes. It was seriously pandemonium! A beautiful, crazy pandemonium!
It was so funny to think that we’ve worked on this, prayed about this, stuffed eggs, bought candy for MONTHS and in moments it was over… but boy was it fun!
One HUGE thing – our volunteers BLOW. ME. AWAY!
They are such amazing people with amazing hearts. Our whole church understood that we just wanted to do something fun to show the city that we love them. I sure hope they got that message loud and clear.
Tomorrow is Easter. We’re going to celebrate Jesus in a huge way at Access Church.
Then maybe we’ll take a nap.
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