Families at Wildwood United Methodist Church turned a pandemic Easter into a creative...
Emma Khalil picks up bags of eggs during the Wildwood United Methodist Church Palm Sunday event called EggThyNeighbor Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Magnolia, Texas. Parishioners take bags of stuffed Easter eggs to hide and give to friends and neighbors.Members of Wildwood United Methodist Church in Magnolia have joined forces with the Easter Bunny.
“Or people can take those eggs and place them in the yard of a neighbor,” he said. “A child can walk out and be surprised and experience the joy of searching for the eggs.”There will be 12 stuffed eggs hidden in their yards. There is also one empty egg, meant to symbolize“Enjoy the hunt, but don’t be discouraged when you find the empty egg,” the note on the bag explains. “For He is risen.”In the past, Wildwood United Methodist hosted a more traditional Easter eggstravaganza in the parking lot.
When COVID-19 first struck, McMullen delivered fun bags, filled with activities, on March 28, 2020, to all children and preteens in the church’s database. “We filled two cartons at a time with eggs, stuffed them, closed them and stacked them up,” she recalled. Pastor Young brought Easter boxes to her grandchildren. She even dropped off a package to a neighbor who just moved in.“When I drove by later, the box was gone and the sign stayed up through Easter,” Young said.
Wildwood turned the egg distribution into a Chili and Cookie Cook-off this year. Also, the church decided to bump it up to Palm Sunday to allow more time to share the Easter bags. Each contains an invitation to return to worship on Easter Sunday.
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