Trunk or Treat

media release: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church –Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will be expanding their annual Trunk or Treat event this weekend to include more groups and provide more offerings besides candy.

The Trunk or Treat event will occur in the parking lot of Good Shepherd’s Madison campus, 5701 Raymond Road, from 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, October 25.

The event is designed to provide a safe place for children to trick-or-treat. This year, the church is adding a book barn to the event, which will allow children to pick up free age-appropriate books to take home with them, along with some candy.

“We thought there was an opportunity to give parents another free resource while also providing them a safe place for their children to trick-or-treat,” said Dara Schuller-Hanson, Pastor of Mission and Outreach at Good Shepherd. “And this is a fun way to encourage young children to love books as much as they love chocolate.”

More groups will be partnering with Good Shepherd to host Trunk or Treat this year. Westwood Christian Church and Madison’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints will both help with the event. ATA Martial Arts will be offering free Tae-Kwon-Do demonstrations. And Little Blessings Preschool will host a trunk at the event.

“We have been looking for ways to reach out to the community,” said Heidi Anderson, Director of Little Blessings Preschool in Madison. “This type of event, which provides a safe environment for kids to have fun, helps provide a platform for us to show the neighborhood we’re here for them as well.”

The Holy Cow, Good Shepherd’s food truck, will also be at the event handing out hot chocolate. In the event of inclement weather Saturday, the event will move to Peterson Hall inside Good Shepherd Madison’s campus.