Easter Sunrise Service

What a great idea! A sunrise service for the community of Winter Springs. How many other churches would want to help us do this? A chance to share the Good News of Easter in the community with the City endorsing our service! Well, nobody. Okay, not a problem. We can do it. What time should we start? A better question would have been, “what time will the sun come up?” We answered the first question with 6:30am. God answered the second question at 7:16am. So what if there are 4 verses to the first song we sang and the print is in 10 font and it is pitch black outside. Not completely dark however, the moon was directly overhead providing enough light to see about 300 people gathered from around Winter Springs in lawn chairs. Now I am not sure if they came to see what on earth we were going to do in the dark at 6:30 but there actually was enough light to see by 6:55 and we ended the service as the sun was coming up. Just like we planned it. Sort of. Our music and equipment was soaked from condensation, but the volunteers were having a great time with free Starbucks coffee and a surprising turn-out for last minute advertising. We put out signs 5 days before Easter. Why not earlier you ask? The city permits take 3-4 weeks to get permission to hang a sign. Oh yes, for an event that who requested?  The City.  In their City Park.