Pacific Southwest Conference Annual Meeting - April 16-18, 2009

Each year the member churches of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church gather for the annual business meeting and to celebrate the progress and work of the member churches over the year. This year's celebration highlighted the church planting work of the conference over the past 15 years.

We invite you to view highlights of Celebration 2009 that took place April 16-18 at Lakehills Covenant Church, El Dorado Hills, CA (below and at pswc.org).

At pswc.org you can also read the Superintendent’s Report and an excerpt from the Church Planting booklet, “A Reason to Celebrate”, given to banquet attendees.

Highlights of Celebration 2009.pdf

HUNT 2009 at Doerr Park - April 11, 2009

On April 11th, we had our third annual Easter egg HUNT at Doerr Park in San Jose.
By 1:15 pm there were a lot less children than expected. By 1:20 pm, the park was packed with over 250 children!! It took them no more than 20 minutes to pick all of our 6000 eggs.
The HUNT was a huge success. Children had fun and families were blessed. Thank you so much to all the volunteers. This event would not have been possible without you!

Egg Stuffing Party - April 5, 2009

5,000 Easter Eggs sounds daunting enough. Add in that they have to be opened, stuffed with one piece of hard candy (and perhaps a golden ticket), taped shut and then re-boxed, and the job is enough to scare anyone away! Oh, and don't forget the 1,000 or so leftover eggs from last year!

But, the New Life Hunt Team was not dissuaded. They showed up and started working, and less than 90 MINUTES later, they were done!!!!

How did they do it? There are some theories:

• Herb's new "patented" taping technique
• Fillmore's ability to continually dodge Andrea's egg tosses
• Matthias and Jaliel's help
• The Ladies' table suggested the overwhelming multi-tasking ability of their crew
• The Men's table believed they had exactly the right mix of technique and style (though no one could explain how the soda got into the egg box, hmm...)
• Or, good old fashioned team work!

Many, many thanks to everyone who braved the task at hand as well as the un-air conditioned office to do an amazing job!

And next week, when the Doerr Park neighborhood comes to enjoy their Hunt, all of the eggs and candy and toys will be scooped up by kids and families who we are there simply to bless and to share with them some of God's love that He has given to us by giving them a fun day in the park for Easter.

In case you did not make it to the Egg Stuffing Party (or are wondering what stuffing 6,000 eggs might look like!), Haven took some photos to share: