Dozens of families gathered for an annual picnic at Cross Church on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“This is an annual event at our church, we’ve been doing this for many years,” said Children’s Ministry Director, Rhonda.<\/p>\n
The event was free and open to church congregants, and had free hotdogs, snacks, and ice-cream for people to enjoy. As well, there were activities like face painting, arts and crafts, bouncy castles, and other child-friendly games for children to participate in.<\/p>\n
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The event was hosted to bring together the church community in fellowship.<\/p>\n
“It’s an opportunity for our whole church family to get together,” said Rhonda.<\/p>\n
The picnic was held indoors due to the rainy and cloudy weather, and families were able to move around from activity to activity.<\/p>\n
Rhonda shared her happiness about seeing families connect,\u00a0“I just love seeing families running around together.”<\/p>\n
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Caring for each other<\/p>\n
Church staff wanted the picnic to show love and care to the church community.<\/p>\n
“We are here to love on each other; we truly care about each other,” said Rhonda.<\/p>\n
The goal of the afternoon was to see people connect outside of Sunday services and have fun together in a different setting.<\/p>\n
“We also want to be able to have a great time together, spending time together learning about Jesus, encouraging each other by doing fun things too,” said Rhonda.<\/p>\n
The Gospel is priority<\/p>\n
Volunteers shared leading people to the Gospel remained front and center at the heart of the event.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately we just want everybody to be impacted by the Good News, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s our number one priority,” said Picnic Volunteer, Lauren.<\/p>\n
Organizers hoped that church members would feel more connected as a result of the event and it would direct back to Jesus.<\/p>\n
“I’m hoping they take away the fact that we are a true church family. We connect, we care for each other’s needs and ultimately that all this would point to Jesus,” said Picnic Volunteer, Pam.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of families gathered for an annual picnic at Cross Church on Sunday afternoon. “This is an annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-767863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}