Local church turns its annual egg hunt into a drive-thru Eggstravaganza
(Seguin) — A local church is gearing up for a curbside delivery of the Easter message. Crossroads Church is inviting families to its Drive-thru Eggstravaganza this Sunday in the church parking lot.
Pastor Natalie Avalos says the drive-thru Eggstravaganza is their answer of delivering the Easter message along with a few colorful eggs for local children.
“Usually every year, our church puts on the Crossroads Easter Extravanganza which is downtown. We usually use Central Park downtown — every year, we’ve been doing this since Crossroads Church started in 2007 and so we order our eggs ahead of time which we have 30,000 eggs that kids usually hunt. Well obviously, we are not going to be hunting downtown, so we decided that we could do a drive-thru and the parents could just hop open their trunk so we have a system where there will only be 10 people on the campus surrounded in the parking lot and we have a line-up system much like if you would park at a Spurs game and so people will drive-thru color coded with a tag of the amount of bags needed on each one of the windshield wipers so there’s no contact with the people and they just drive through, pop their truck, curbside service and we’ll go ahead and put the bag with the communion elements, some family treats as well as literature so they can go home and do the Easter story with their children. So that’s what Crossroads Church is providing to our community. I think we are going to have over 600 bags ready to go,” said Avalos.
Avalos says not only is the church ensuring the wonderful treats for kids but it’s also equipping families with the things they need to continue their celebration at home.
“They will be dispersed within a certain period of time from 8 to 8:30 a.m. and then there will be another slot from 10 to 10:30 a.m. The hope is that as soon as people get their bags and they drive home, they can catch the live service to do communion in the privacy of their home with their children with us online. So, that’s the thought,” said Avalos.
A special live broadcast of the church’s service will also be available on Seguin Radio KWED from 11:30 a.m. to noon Sunday.
Avalos says during this time of social distancing, she wanted to ensure the importance of not only keeping safe but also of continuing the celebration of Christ.
“Our message to families is that all of us working together to stay safe and to respect what authorities have to say — even Jesus, himself, every time people tried to catch him and (would say) hey, you are doing this on the Sabbath or you are doing that on a Sabbath, yet, he’d always adhered to authorities when he said ‘give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar’ when they tried to catch him on taxes and so our thing is we want our families to stay home and listen to authorities so that we can get back to our life as normal but at the same time, we want to respect the spiritual meaning of Easter which is why we came up with this plan to fulfill — get everything that kids would need in their home to have the Easter story of what Christ did for us which hopefully, will provoke them for faith and hope and stay away from fear but really motivate the love in their home to do something as a family together, recognizing the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords that we all serve,” said Avalos.
Each of the Easter family packs will, again, include candy filled eggs, communion elements, coloring pages, snacks and activities. The drive-thru Eggstravaganza will be held Sunday from 8 to 8:30 a.m. and then again from 10 to 10:30 a.m. The bags will be distributed until 10:30 a.m. or until supplies last.
Crossroads Church is located at 3455 W. US Hwy 90. Families are reminded to stay inside their vehicles at all times.