(Seguin) — Kids in Seguin are invited to get a jumpstart in the hunt for those Easter eggs. Texas Lutheran University, The Believe It Foundation and Emanuel’s Lutheran Church will be joining forces to host what they are calling “an epic, community-wide EGGAPALOOZA ” egg hunt this Saturday at TLU’s Bulldog Stadium.
Pastor Marcus Biggot of Emanuel’s Lutheran Church, says a whopping 20,000 eggs will be up for grabs across the entire stretch of the football field.
“This was birthed out of a dream that our church and day school had about providing a community-wide Easter egg hunt including everybody not just kids of our day school and church but the entire community. In a conversation with The Believe It Foundation and other folks, it was also about making this event acceptable for kids with disabilities. We wanted to make it something that was numbers beyond measure. Just make it as exciting as possible. So, we thought what would it look like if we had almost 2,000 kids show up? We wanted them to walk away with as many eggs as we could and so that is why we have 20,000 Easter Eggs,” said Biggot.
Biggot says doing away with any obstacle that a child may have in participating might be what is most important about this particular egg hunt.
“We want to make sure that this is something that everybody can be a part of. Egg hunts are driven by the fact that when someone says ‘go,’ they just fan out and just run and run and run but kids with some disabilities can’t often do that and are left on the sidelines or sent somewhere else to do a different kind of hunt or different kind of activity and we did not want that. We wanted everybody to be together. It’s not about segregating people. It’s about doing it together. So what we created in working with The Believe It Foundation and other folks is to create space in the midst of everybody else — doing it together where kids can hunt together. So, what we are doing is creating raised platforms that will be right at table height where our kids and youth can reach and grab eggs from a wheelchair, reach and grab eggs from a walker or any kind of assisted device along with student volunteers from Texas Lutheran University from Seguin ISD, Navarro ISD — there will be folks there to help kids hunt and have the best time possible,” said Biggot.
Biggot says they have planned the event so that everyone walks away with eggs and everyone has a memorable experience.
“The gates open at 8:30 (a.m.). They will get a wristband. That color of the wristband will coordinate with a real big flag that will kind of be in the home stadium side of the track. We’ll gather together at 9 o’clock. We will begin with opening greetings from Mayor Donna Dodgen (and) Dr. Debbie Cottrell, president of Texas Lutheran University, and Mr. Andrew McAllister, of The Believe It Foundation and of course, we have to welcome the Easter Bunny to help make it all happen. So, the 3 and under group will go first and then 4 and 5 year-olds and then the 6 and 7-year-olds and the 8 and 9-year-olds and then the 10 and above. It’s about every 15 to 20 minutes, we will have a new group hunting for eggs right in the center of the field. We’ve got students that are going to kind of dress the field with eggs after each group so each group is going to have about 4 to 5,000 eggs per group,” said Biggot.
The egg hunt is open to kids ages 2 to 12 years-old. Gates open at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The event is free.