Just not today. :)  It could possibly happen tonight, but here is a little something to allow you to see visually the craziness.  Here is a short video we put together and will be showing in church Sunday.

I am sitting here looking over my April calendar and to say I am on the road a lot would be an understatement!  I will be traveling to Charlotte to gain some wisdom, I am headed to Seattle for a conference, Nevada for staff retreat, and Burlington, North Carolina to hang out with some pastor friends for a day or two.

On top of that, we are kicking off a series called Prison Break at the end of the month that I think has the potential to be one the most powerful series we have ever done.  We are going to be talking about breaking free from the things that keep us from being all God wants us to be.  We are going to be talking about breaking free from religion, addictions, unforgiveness, and our past.  It is going to be off the hook!

One of our nutty people just started a Facebook group called, “We survived the Canton Easter Egg Drop.”

I had to rejoin Facebook just to join the group.

Here is Mike’s pictures of the event on facebook.

Here are some more shots.  NONE of these shots come close to getting the entire crowd in the picture.

These are some of the photos from out on the main drive and across the street.  People were literally parking WHEREVER they could find a spot even if it meant parking in someone’s yard!

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.

Today was the day.  I knew it was coming and it came hard.  I made it all weekend, but today I crashed.  I feel like my eyes are sunken in my skull, my bones hurt, my joints hurt, and I am so freaking tired I can’t stand it.  I just got home and my wonderful wife has taken care of everything so all I have to do is go into a coma.  Nice.

BTW, I think I might be able to tell my side of the Easter Egg Drop story tomorrow.  If everything stays good it will be Wednesday at the latest.  Trust me, you will not believe the craziness that happened.  It was the most awesome disaster I have ever been part of.

You will praise God for how awesome it was, you will be horrified at what happened, you will laugh to you pee your pants, and you will shake your head knowing that only Revolution could have something like this happen to them.

Keep waiting, my side of the story is coming.  Today, I am just keeping quiet to everyone about Canton’s Georgia’s Largest Easter Egg Drop.  Well almost everyone.  I did spend some time talking to the detective who was in our office lobby waiting when I walked in this morning.

But to hold you over, I will send you to this post by one of our awesome people, Mandy Harrison aka M.F.  You can read her account of the day here.  Enjoy.