The children cheered before they saw it. The blades whipping in the distance until the helicopter rose from behind Dollar General. It flew by, circled around New Walk Church in Zephyrhills twice and the children cheered some more.
At the church’s annual Egg Drop, the pilot dropped about 2,000 eggs onto a field as hundreds of children awaited to scramble after and grab as many eggs as they could on Easter Sunday.
Already on the field: another 20,000 eggs for children, ranging in ages from 1 to 10 years old.
The prizes inside? Candy, stickers, tattoos, even money.
In all, the church held seven egg drops over the three-day weekend and each one had hundreds of kids, the largest being at 12:45 p.m., on Easter Sunday, with about 600 sprinting for colorful plastic eggs.
New Walk Church is nondenominational, at 35008 State Road 54 in Zephyrhills. For more info, log onto NewWalk.church.
Published April 20, 2022
