Easter Reflections

What a great Easter weekend we had. I have been out of town since Sunday afternoon so I haven't had the time to blog about some of the great things that took place. Here are the highlights.

1. Maundy Thursday was a good time to get together with the other churches in the community. I spoke on the symbol of the cross and how God views the cross opposed to how we view the cross. When we look at the cross we see love, grace and forgiveness but when God looks at the cross, He sees sin, wickedness and judgment. It was a great time of reflection and worship to our God for all He has done.

2. The Easter Egg Hunt was a blast on Saturday. We had almost 300 children attend the event this year. Thanks to John Bushong for doing a a great job once again for organizing this event. I was so thankful that we had a beautiful day and no rain. God is so good! It was awesome to see all the kids have their baskets filled with candy.

3. Easter Sunday was a wonderful day of worship. We had 219 in worship combined for both services. The worship team did a great job, special music and a special skit by Gary Smith and Derek Bates. I was very proud of Austin Young who gave his testimony Sunday of how the Lord changed his life. When we hear stories like this, it makes ministry worth it all.

I want to encourage you that if you invited someone and they didn't come for Easter, don't give up. Keep planting seeds and you never know when the door will opened. For the guests that were there, let's pray that the seed of God's Word was planted on good soil and that seed would grow a harvest thirty, sixty, hundredfold!