Animal blessings, adoptions plus rummage sale set for Saturday
(Seguin) — Everyone deserves a blessing or two. And yes, that even includes our precious pets.
Seguin’s Pumpkin Patch at First Methodist Church will be full of blessings during its annual Blessing of the Animals this Saturday.
Senior Pastor Cathe Evins says families are invited to bring their animals for a special day in the patch.
“Of course, a lot of people bring their pets to the pumpkin patch because they are also part of the family pictures. So, we do recognize that people certainly love their animals and see them as family members and so when we do a blessing of the animals, it’s an opportunity to have people come and we say a blessing over the animals and we remind people of all the scriptures that are related to animals — Scripture tells us that Christ will return on a white horse and that God saved the animals of Nineveh and that Jonah, of course, was saved by a whale and so there are so many stories about animals in Scripture and then, we actually give them a little tag for the dog’s collar that says I’m blessed and then we take a picture with them if they so choose,” said Evins.
Evins says visiting the patch this Saturday may also mean taking home more than just a pumpkin.
“We also have that day Seguin Animal Rescue here with pets that are available for adoption and we bless them as well if they want to be blessed. Some of them are a little bit excited and nervous to be here in their cages and having lots of people around but we hope people will come out and maybe find a new pet that needs a forever home and then also bring the pets that they already have to be blessed and of course enjoy the pumpkin patch and we have a rummage sale going on at the same time in our church parking lot so it’s going to be a great day on Saturday for people to come out and enjoy those activities,” said Evins.
That rummage sale in the church parking lot gets underway at 9 a.m. and will be held until 2 p.m.
Animals up for adoption will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. followed by the blessing of the animals from 10 a.m. to noon. .
The Pumpkin patch is located at 710 N. Austin St.