Trunk or Treat

I had the pleasure of participating it my first Trunk or Treat this year. If you have never done one let me give you my view of the event.

Picture the furthest corner of Target’s parking lot; we took up about 60 parking stalls. At the welcome table Pastor Jeanette and her daughters greeted the roughly 700 people who came through. Russ was on hand as Santa at the entry as well which was a highlight for many kids would didn’t expect St. Nick to make a trip out of the North Pole before Thanksgiving.

 

29 cars parked in a horse shoe filled our space distributing some 27,000 pieces of candy. The trunks that came where amazingly creative and so well received. Many were Disney or princess themed; we even had two Frozen trunks. Others included Christmas for Halloween, Alabama Roll Tide, two Duck trunks and Pastor Dave has the duck himself, a shark, a football and a ladybug. This year we had several trunks that had small activities like bean bag or ring toss and some great football and golf challenges.

I was so impressed with all the costumes. Of course Frozen characters were the little kids favorite this year. Our middle schoolers were very creative though. The boys did a Pretty Pretty Princess trunk and dressed in tutus, tiaras and there was even a unicorn. The girls did a Disney trunk and we had some beautiful princesses and fairies.

By the end of the night many were cold in their costumes but had a great time and stayed warm with cider, popcorn and friends. I learned that we have an amazing church family to pull off this event each year and provide such an outreach to the community in that part of Kent. Trunk or Treat in some cases is the only safe way for kids that live in apartments or culturally wouldn’t go door to door to participate in Halloween. It was great for our students to help families from our area experience Halloween in a positive way. I pray that this event will grow and that those who came through saw the love of Jesus through the hands of all our students and volunteers. I encourage you to plan to help with this event in the future. ~ Interim Amanda