Pastoral Ponderings—Trunk or Treat!
I must confess, I was one of the skeptics this year. When we had done Trunk or Treat on rainy nights in the past, our turnout has been as dreary as the weather, so when the forecast for Sunday night when Trunk or Treat had been scheduled had been nothing but rain all afternoon and all night, I was voting for a postponement. But we didn’t, and that’s my God-sighting for the week!
Our Twin Falls church still held Trunk or Treat despite the rain, but moved it inside, and had more than fifty participants at best count, with half of them being folks from the neighborhood who are not a part of the church. For an outreach event, that’s a wonderful turnout!
For churches eager to connect with young families in the community, there’s not much better than a trunk or treat type event that kids and adults can look forward to and eagerly explore a place even as scary as a church! But when we can welcome catacorns (that’s a cat unicorn-didn’t even know that was a thing!), alicorns (that’s a flying rainbow unicorn), skeletons, giant pizza slices and “Ice, Ice Baby” all at once, that seems to both alleviate the intimidation factor, and add to the fun factor. The event, fueled by the warmth of our inviting church folk, was a great way of demonstrating the breadth of the welcoming nature of God’s grace!
If this sounds like a great way to be the Church, but you weren’t able to make it, it’s not too late! You can join us at our Charlestown Church on Sunday afternoon at the park next door at 2 for their community Trunk or Treat, where the church is an integral part. Looks like it will be dry, but cooler—so you could try a warm and toasty marshmallow costume and have a great time putting skin on the Body of Christ! Will we see you there?
Keep being a blessing—I’ll be having a ball this time and making a racket, if you’d like a clue to what should easily top my “fork in the road” failure!
(see more about the event on our facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/TwinFallsUnitedMethodistChurch# )