Friday, April 14, 2017

Oh Happy Day! Community Picnic and Easter Egg Hunt

Happy, hoppy kids ready to hunt for eggs

Connecting resources with needs is about so much more than food… even when you grill 700 hotdogs for a community-wide picnic and Easter Egg Hunt! This is the 5th year CSM has joined hands with Avondale United Methodist Church and Red Mountain Church to invite families from the whole community to connect with each other over lunch on the grounds of Avondale Park, surrounded by new blooms of Spring. 

"Connecting our resources" (in this case, supplying and grilling hotdogs, providing the drinks and other food items) with our impact community partner’s need actually connects people to people for the sake of the Gospel. Our food and physical resources are just a conduit for God's love and a way for us to love His children. The relational and spiritual impact is the central driver for everything we do at CSM... because He is risen!

He is risen, indeed!
Grill master David Hinkle and son
That's a lot of hotdogs... 700 to be exact!!
Volunteers wrapping and delivering hotdogs as they come off the grill
















Ready, set, go!







Tucker found a golden egg!







A beautiful day in the neighborhood