We started Revolution Church to impact Canton, Ga. It really is that plain and simple. we feel called to this city and we won’t rest until it is reached with the message of Jesus Christ.

That said, we have done some pretty crazy things to create buzz since we started and we have done a pretty good job at it if I do say so myself. So we thought this year we would follow the lead of some of our friends and we do a easter egg hunt….Revolution style.

We decided if we were going to do it, we were going BIG. We rented Boling Park and decided we were going to drop 50,000 eggs from a helicopter. Instead of just a egg drop, we decided we would bring in a ton of inflatables, give away some GREAT prizes, and create the biggest event Canton has ever seen.

We started planning this event around Christmas time. We spend hours planning, preparing, talking to others who had done it, meeting to improve it, going over our plans, etc. Hundreds of our people volunteered to help and we were ready.

Fast forward to this past Saturday.

Our people started showing up at 5:30 to prepare for registration opening at 10 a.m. When I pulled into the park at 7, I was blown away by how many of our people were there rocking volunteer shirts. It was awesome.  Honestly, everything was in place and ready to go by 7:30 a.m. which turned out to be a good thing because though registration didn’t start until 10 a.m., we had the first person show up to register at 7:45.  This was a sign of things to come.

By 8:00 there was a STEADY stream of people coming to register.  By 9:30 (30 minutes before we were going to start registering) a police officer told me we were around 5,000 people.  No big deal was the thought I had going through my head.  The park we were having the event in has decent parking, right above it is Cherokee High School, the Armory, a bowling alley, the DMV, a skate park, and a ton of other smaller places that are closed on Saturday.  We figured we had parking for around 6,000.  ALL the parking lots were full, overflowing, parking in the grass full by 10.  At this time I started getting a little worried, but not much.

Over the next hour things got crazy.  We literally, I mean literally backed up Riverston Pkwy (the main road in town) up BOTH ways to the interstate and out onto the interstate.  The two lane road turned into a four lane road and people were going crazy.  They started parking in people’s yards, they started leaving their cars on the side of the road and walking, they started parking at stores 3 and 4 miles away and walked to the park.  IT WAS INSANE.

It was at this time we decided we couldn’t keep up with registration so we shut it down and just decided to let people in.  At this point EVERYTHING was fine.  I was actually shocked at how awesome everyone was being, how organized we appeared to be, and just the overall atmosphere.  THINGS were awesome.  They were crowded and you could barely move, but things were awesome and they were going fine.

At 10:45 we allowed people to cross the bridge to the field.  It took probably 30 minutes for this to happen.  Yet, things were great.  The field was huge and things were fine.  Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what was about to happen………

I’ll finish the story later.  Right now, Preston is on the phone with a very unhappy person from the city.

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