“Greater Things” Thursday #42: Trunk or Treat

Lebanon Road’s 2011 theme is “Greater Things.” For an introduction and video to this theme, click here. Each Thursday, we are highlighting a different area in which we are striving for greater things.

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A great idea for kids, Trunk and Treat is done by several congregations. As a dad to two small children, I’m thankful that Lebanon Road has this event. Sadly, Halloween has become unsafe in many places, but we make sure our Trunk and Treat is upbeat, fun, and very safe for our kids here.

The Trunk and Treat always follows a Sunday evening service near Halloween. We give the kids time to change into their costumes, and give folks who might have forgotten to park in a designated area time to move to that part of our parking lot. Then…we let the ghosts, goblins, superheroes, and princesses loose!

Cars are decorated, too, and we have a contest for the best decorated car as well as the best costumes. After the kids have filled their buckets and bags with candy, we all meet in the fellowship hall for a finger food dinner, and there is also an area designated for taking photos of the kids in their costumes.

By confining the cars that are participating to one area of our parking lot, and by having it be a well-lit area, we make the evening safe for the kids. Usually, we are blessed with guests on that night, too, which is great!

Our Trunk and Treat for 2011 will be Sunday night, and I hope many of our folks will participate. It is so much fun, and our kids always have a blast!

Here are some pictures from past year’s events.

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For “greater things’ to occur, we need to spread the word about how great our Trunk and Treat is, so visitors will want to attend, and we need to have tons of folks ready to hand out candy and enjoy the fellowship of this fun evening!