Easter Egg Hunt Draws Nearly 5,000 to Veterans Park

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) — This year marks the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest Easter Egg hunts in our area.

The participants began arriving at the softball complex at Veterans Memorial Park. Nearly 30-thousand plastic eggs filled with goodies awaited the children. There were other fun activities like inflatables and face painting. For the first time White Hill Missionary Baptist Church joined Tupelo Free Will Baptist Church as a co-sponsor of the event. Free Will Baptist Pastor Terry Pierce says it is great to able to bring nearly 5-thousand people together.

“We just have incorporated what folks traditionally understand about the Easter Season,” he explains. “And all the opportunities with the eggs and hunting and all that but the real motivation of why we’re here is to let everybody have fun and have a great time but we’re going to share with them the story of Jesus Christ and what he did for us and he’s changed our lives at White Hill and at Tupelo Free Will and we want everybody to know that there’s so much more than just an egg. There’s a person in Jesus, ” according to Pierce.

And White Hill pastor Jeffery Daniel says his congregation is thrilled to be part of this great outreach opportunity with Tupelo Free Will.

“And working with them has just been excellent, he proclaims. “They’ve been so welcoming and just to let us be a part of it. What a beautiful thing just to see that two churches can come together maybe from diverse in backgrounds but yet for the cause of Christ and for the community has just been wonderful, Daniel says.

Having a black church and a white church come together to co-sponsor this event is very significant not only because of Easter but as a sign of racial reconciliation in the community.

“It’s just such a dream that God is doing in our community, the reconciliation,” Pierce points out. “We’re making a mission statement, a message statement to the community that listen we’re not just talking, we’re doing this together. We’re here together a predominately black church and white church and we’re together to show the community this can work. This can happen,” Pierce exclaims.

“One thing we’re seeing in this day and time that we’re living in we’re seeing so many things that are trying to divide us, socially, racially, politically and for a churches to come together that don’t ordinary worship on a Sunday morning, may have different worship styles but yet we know there is one body and there’s one common cause and that is just to reach souls and reach the world for Christ,” he proclaims.
“And what an awesome opportunity just to see it in a tangible way through a Easter Egg hunt,” Daniel adds.

And both pastors say seeing the joy this day brings to the children is what makes this event so special.