Video of Egg Drop

Here is a video of the April 4th Egg Drop.

Thanks!!!

To all the Home TEAM people who helped out today for the Egg Drop! Thank you very much for all your hard work! We are estimating that over 10,000 people were in attendance! You all did an incredible job! Everyone I saw was having a great time! The kids had smiles on their faces, and I heard a few people talking about our church and wondering what kind of church we are. The day was beautiful! God helped out on that one! All the volunteers made the day an incredibly enjoyable time for me and all those in attendance! What I am trying to say is, GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!

Stuffing Eggs

With real eggs, they come pre-stuffed by the chicken. We thought it would be a bit messy to drop a half million real eggs from a hot air balloon, so we decided to use plastic eggs. You have heard/read from Dean, Tim, and I on our blogs and in person that we need lots of plastic eggs. Well, we still need more, but we also need a piece of candy put in each egg and the seam taped up so that it doesn't explode when it hits the ground. Yesterday, three ladies came in and volunteered to stuff eggs. They worked hard, but three people can't stuff 500,000 eggs between now and April 4th...so we need help. I am encouraging our Home TEAMs to find a time when the whole TEAM can come in and work on stuffing eggs together. Saturday the 14th of March, we as a church are planning to stuff eggs. The more the merrier! Ann is taking care of Volunteer coordination, so feel free to call her at the church to set up a time when your TEAM can volunteer.

April 4th Easter Egg Drop

5 Point Fellowship
Planning Egg Drop

5 Point Fellowship and Easley Parks and Recreation will sponsor an Easter Egg Drop Saturday, April 4, starting at 3 pm and lasting until 6 pm.

There will be food, rides and games as well as the main event—thousands of plastic prize- filled eggs being dropped by hot air balloons over the soccer fields at J.B. “Red” Owens sports complex in Easley.

The Easter egg hunt portion of the event is for children 12 and under.

For more information contact 5 Point Fellowship (864) 850-0580 or e-mail burl@5pointfellowship.org

Easter Egg Drop Sign Up Form

Here is the link for the Easter Egg Sign Up form! Thanks to Tim Winkler for creating this!

http://files.me.com/ttimw/s52sly

Easter Egg Drop (Post 2)

There are about 15,000 eggs on the stage right now, and maybe 5,000 pieces of candy. If you or your Home TEAM have time between now and April 4th, 2009 to come in and help put candy in the eggs, that would be greatly appreciated! Did I mention that it would really help out? You may be wondering why filling eggs is so important. Each kid that comes to the April 4th Egg Drop will scramble out there on the field to collect eggs in his or her basket. Only a few will find an egg with a prize ticket inside, but every kid will find eggs with candy in them. To a kid, that is still winning! That also means that when the kid wins, we have put a chink in the parents "anti-church armor". The kid got something from the church that made him or her happy! We smile, and let the parents know that we are glad they are there, but none of that can happen if all the eggs are unfilled and sitting on the stage at 5 Point Fellowship instead of finding their final destinations being dropped from a Hot Air balloon over the soccer fields at J.B. "Red" Owens Sports Complex.

Easter Egg Drop (Post 1)

I put (Post 1) on this because I am sure there will be more. Last night at the staff meeting, it hit me that we only have a month until the Easter Egg Drop out at J.B. "Red" Owens soccer fields! There is much to do. If you have time to come in and help put candy in eggs and wrap them with tape, please contact Ann. She is setting up getting people together to work on that! I am hoping to have a volunteer sign up sheet finished by the end of the day. The hard part is figuring out how many volunteers we need for each part of the day and on which days. For egg stuffing, we can use as many as possible until all the eggs are filled and taped! While we are on the egg subject, Walmart had boxes of 250 eggs for about $8.00. I cleaned them out last night, but you might check there for getting eggs. That is the cheapest I have seen. I love you guys! Thanks for all you do!