Pleasant Grove Baptist Church of Neese, Georgia

by Gail Lester

This past Saturday Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Children’s Ministries hosted the annual Easter Egg Hunt. Many of our Wednesday night group, as well as our Sunday Bunch were in attendance.

A light lunch was served while a little over 500 eggs were being hid. After lunch, a very attentive group listened and watched our friends and neighbors, David and Peggy Whitehead do their balloon magic, which is always centered around the gospel.

The big moment finally arrived— time to hunt eggs! I estimate it took only about fifteen minutes, twenty at most, for fifteen to twenty children to find 500 eggs!

Then it was back inside to receive prizes and listen as Pastor Jonathan presented the story of the Resurrection Eggs, a dozen plastic eggs with a tiny symbol of the crucifixion and resurrection inside. As a child opened an egg and displayed the tiny symbol, the group helped identify it and its place in the resurrection story. It was very rewarding to realize that this group knew that Easter is more than bunnies, eggs, and candy!

Thank you, Pastor Jonathan, Miss Amy, Children’s Committee, food preparers, and church family who contribute to the Family Ministries Fund. Thank you for all you do to make meaningful evenst like this possible.