Today We Found An Egg Hunt And A Church

I was walking around introducing myself to people and heard her say to her daughter, "Today we found an egg hunt and a church."

It was April and Easter was the next day when we hosted our Easter Egg Hunt outreach. We had never had an event more than 60 people, but on that day we had over 300. It was mobbed in the lobby, and for the first time I felt that we had figured out how to effectively reach out to the community. What a great blessing. Melissa, the woman who said the above statement, is living in our county and had been trying to find a church that she could really connect to. That day she found her church. I baptized her Sunday.

I share this story because this Friday we're doing Screen On The Green, an outreach by showing a movie. I'm anticipating what God is going to do. We believe that we need to cultivate community connections in order to build relationships to share Jesus with others. This is what we're about. Giving people a chance to find their place in God's family at Severn River Church.

Hope you can be part of it. What if you walked up and heard a parent say to their child, "Tonight we saw a movie and found a church."

--Ben