[Paradox]

A local well known Baptist church held a huge party for Halloween yesterday. A place for children and families to get together. You could dress up, but no real scary costumes were allowed. It was open to the public. They had some religious information available, and just about got me to sign up as a member. It was very nice and appreciated.

[Alice in Wonderland]

The local rural Baptist church had a Halloween party last night for our community. Free food: bar-b-qued pulled pork sandwiches and hot dogs. The kids heard the story of Jonah, then got to walk thru the whale. They said it was scary but went thru 3 times! There was a Cake Walk (we won cookies and cupcakes), a ‘fisher of men’ and other games. During the hay ride the tractor broke down and goblins and ghouls came out of the woods to scare the riders. We had a great time!!!

[MayflowerMadam]

“A local well known Baptist church held a huge party for Halloween yesterday.”

Our Baptist church in Simi Valley does that, too. We have a “Jesus Loves Me” party every Halloween for church kids and neighborhood kids. Bouncy house, bags of candy to take home, hot dogs, etc. Again — no scary, witchy, ghostly, demonic, or inappropriate (like little girls dressed like bimbos) costume. It’s a great success.

[Col Freeper]

A local well known Baptist church held a huge party for Halloween yesterday. A place for children and families to get together. You could dress up, but no real scary costumes were allowed. It was open to the public.

I'm glad to hear about the local church providing that event for the children and families.

Our small Baptist church holds an annual Pumpkin Patch function for the local community.

We serve food and beverages for everyone, and have booths with candy prizes (no child ever fails to "win" some candy), cotton candy, popcorn and bottles of water, and a cake walk, and a separate "Kiddie Land" for the little ones to participate without being in the middle of all the bigger kids running around having fun.

The church members donate all the funds and volunteer hours required to put on this two-hour event.

And everything is free to anyone who wants to attend.

I've been the Director for the last two years, and it is a real joy to watch children and their families have a great time.

The church's position is that participants can come dressed in any type costume they want to (we see all costume types from angels to animals to witches to ghouls to Mickey Mouses, to ... well just everything, LOL).

We get some locals who just come for the free food, and some who just come to see how many free cakes they can win at the cake walk. But it doesn't matter, because it gives our church a chance to serve the community by providing a safe place for children and their families to have a fun evening and to experience Christians serving their community.

They had some religious information available, and just about got me to sign up as a member.

We also provide some religious information available, we and provide small Children's Bibles to anyone who wants one.

I have only been a Christian for about four years, and spent over 50 years "turning my face away from the Lord", but I can tell you that I wish I had turned to the Lord long, long ago, and am glad that I am able to serve him and bring at least one night of happiness and smiles to those little guys and gals.

Our church members agree that the event is worth every penny of money and every minute of time we donate to it.