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Where There's a Place, There's an Egg

Memorial Baptist Church Hosts Easter Egg Hunt.

A small red fox scurries through the Memorial Baptist Church grounds on Saturday April 15 trying to get a head start on the annual Easter Egg Hunt. A sign at the edge of the parking lot outlines the colors of eggs allowed to be collected by particular ages. Sally Tipton, children's minister, says, "This is so there are enough eggs for everyone and they don't trample each other. For instance," she said, "four-year-olds can pick up yellow eggs and three-year-olds get purple." She points to an area just to the right. "This is for the babies. They can pick up whatever they want."

A small red fox scurries through the Memorial Baptist Church grounds on Saturday April 15 trying to get a head start on the annual Easter Egg Hunt. A sign at the edge of the parking lot outlines the colors of eggs allowed to be collected by particular ages. Sally Tipton, children's minister, says, "This is so there are enough eggs for everyone and they don't trample each other. For instance," she said, "four-year-olds can pick up yellow eggs and three-year-olds get purple." She points to an area just to the right. "This is for the babies. They can pick up whatever they want." Photo by Shirley Ruhe.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

A registration table is set up to check in participants. The minister says, "We don't want anyone to lose out on the raffle. That wouldn't be good." Signing up are Lisa Flower, music minister at Memorial Baptist Church, and her daughter Carrie Parks along with grandchildren William and Margaret Mae Parks.

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

"Come on, let's head over to the cherry tree where we'll hear the Easter story of Resurrection. But don't get any eggs yet if you see them." Lisa Flowers, music minister, begins, "Jesus was full of surprises." Little voices ring out, “Hallelujah." This is the fifth year for the Memorial Baptist Church Easter Egg Hunt for parishioners and the community.

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Children munch on bananas or tiny cinnamon-sugar donuts as they eye the field looking for their first egg. They line up at the edge of the field: Ready, set, go!

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

Seventeen-month-old Mary Dutra toddles back and forth across the parking lot, sometimes balancing her large wicker basket and sometimes juggling her eggs.

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