Does Your Church Provide a Halloween Alternative?
Whether it’s a harvest festival, or a fall carnival, or a Haunted House-esque Judgement House, or something else entirely, many churches are making alternative Halloween activities available to their communities.
What about you? Does your church provide a Halloween alternative?
We are a recent Church plant in Maricopa, Az. Our community has 37,000 people. Lat year our Trick or Treat event had 8,500 people come. We partner with Walmart, and the City of Maricopa along with various local businesses.
We are expecting around 10,000 + this year from our community.
God has really given us an incredible opportunity here on Saturday.
If you’d like any additional information you can find our event highlighted on Mediasalt.com or you can e-mail me. Thanks. Pray for us!!!! For Jesus!
http://www.mediasalt.com/2009/10/23/friday-four-a-successful-fall-festival/
This is the link from Media Salt ….
haha … One more thing. Here’s the link to our Youtube video of last years event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Mil3FOML4
My church provides “Hallelujah Night” instead of Halloween. We serve food, provide games such as Bible Bingo, Bible Scavenger Hunt, and candy bags with tags that read “Life with Jesus is Sweet”. We ask for each youth to bring two nonperishable food items for the local pantry. Our Hallelujah Night is this Saturday, October 31st. Please pray for its success as we work to win souls for Jesus.
i think that is wonderful what
your church is doing. it blesses my
heart to read this.
Why must (we) provide alternatives? I don’t believe there is any sound Biblical basis for Halloween… so why would there be any such basis for an ‘alternative?’ Why not, simply, “No?”
Dave, no matter what your personal feelings are concerning Halloween, it’s still going to be celebrated by the majority of people in your surrounding community. A lot of churches see this as an opportunity for an outreach event or some other activity that they feel is more in line with their perspective on Halloween.
idont think halloween is a good thing to celebrate.
at our church we have a fall festival.kids play games,get treats and
learn about the lord instead of celebrating halloween.
I’m not shure if there needed. I know halloween isn’t to be celebrated because it’s a day for devils, witches, and such. But just the same arn’t we celebrating the same thing but, tring to infuse christ into it. Just so that christian childern don’t feel left out?
Let’s get back to the basics. Who established Halloween and why? Along with all other holidays. We are quick to take on the bondage of the ways of this world, while bringing along our children. Jesus did not spend time celebrating Halloween, neither did any other disciple of Christ. In order to allow God to transform our minds, we must let go of the things that are precious to us. For one: our ego! Many Christians celebrate holidays because they are thinking, “What will my family say?” We are supposed to be a peculiar people!