Easter

Today was a great day at church we had almost 500 people within our 2 services! Everybody comes out on Easter Sunday which is funny, but what an opportunity to reach people. I hate calling it Easter Sunday since Easter was the pagan goddess of fertility and that is why we have bunnies as a sign for Easter (since bunnies/rabbits are known for extremely fertile animals). When pagan & Christian religions/cults merged resurrection Sunday & Easter became a holiday celebrated among all. So why we call it Easter and have bunnies mixed with eggs has NOTHING to do with Christ and His resurrection, not that I am saying it is evil or anything like that. I just like calling it resurrection Sunday rather than Easter although I find myself just saying Easter because that's what we've always called it. I think it is interesting with these holidays such as Christmas and Easter that we have merged Christian celebrations with ultra pagan celebrations. Sometimes it's good to know what we celebrate and make sure we have all the facts covered since our faith has a long history (considering it started before anything was ever even created). Today we had a good time with family and Zion ate lots of chocolate and we have 8 million plastic eggs ALL over our house, how evil (just kidding, actually it is since we have to clean them all up).

The girls night went AMAZING! Erin did a phenomenal job organizing it and involving other leaders. She said the night could not have gone any better. The leaders that helped did an amazing job cleaning, helping, speaking and hanging with the girls. They had 25 girls come, which is like a little under half the students we run on Wednesday nights, so that is great! The girls are still talking about it, they loved the whole night. Our students here are so respectful and they listen so well. There seems to be no need to keep an extra eye on them because they are such great students, we love them so much! We couldn't have a better fit for us here, I know I say that a lot but it is so true! God is so faithful to lead us where He wants us to go. We just need to be faithful and hang in there, God will never leave us high and dry! He has our best interest in mind, His plans are perfect! Stay the course and God will direct your steps!!!