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Parkview Church Palm Coast unveiled its new, 700-seat auditorium building for Easter services. Photo by Sierra Williams
Parkview Church at Palm Coast's Easter egg hunt had 20,000 Easter eggs. Courtesy of Cassandra Hartman
Parkview Church Palm Coast unveiled its new, 700-seat auditorium building for Easter services. Photo by Sierra Williams
Parkview Church at Palm Coast's Easter egg hunt had 20,000 Easter eggs. Courtesy of Cassandra Hartman
Parkview Church Palm Coast unveiled its new, 700-seat auditorium building for Easter services. Photo by Sierra Williams
Parkview Church at Palm Coast's Easter egg hunt had 20,000 Easter eggs. Courtesy of Cassandra Hartman
Parkview Church Palm Coast unveiled its new, 700-seat auditorium building for Easter services. Photo by Sierra Williams
Thea Hartman at Parkview Church at Palm Coast's Easter egg hunt. Courtesy of Cassandra Hartman
Parkview Church Palm Coast's new auditorium building has a children's center, two floors and a cafe alongside the new auditorium. Photo by Sierra Williams
Parkview Church Palm Coast's new auditorium building has a children's center, two floors and a cafe alongside the new auditorium. Photo by Sierra Williams
Parkview Church Palm Coast unveiled its new, 700-seat auditorium building for Easter services. Photo by Sierra Williams
Parkview Church Palm Coast unveiled its new, 700-seat auditorium building for Easter services. Photo by Sierra Williams
Over 4,000 people attended Parkview Church's Easter services in the church's new, 700-seat auditorium.
Parkview's community celebrated the grand opening of its new auditorium with two Good Friday services on March 29 and five services dedicated to Easter on Saturday, March 30 and Sunday, March 31. Parkview Communications Director Cassandra Hartman said it was a great opening weekend and Easter service.
"It was incredible," Harman said. "It was chaotic and insane in the best possible way; but it was just incredible."
Hartman said at the 4 p.m. service on March 30 alone over 1,000 people were in attendance for Parkview's annual Eggstravaganza Easter egg hunt. The egg hunt, held indoors, was a safe place for families to bring their children to celebrate the holiday, she said.
"We recognize that a lot of people will visit on Easter, either from out of town or from the community that aren't regular attendees," Hartman said.
With the extra space, the Parkview Family Ministries' 75 volunteers were able to split the egg hunt into two age groups and hid 20,000 inside the premises.
The opening of the new auditorium also marked the closing of the 400-seat auditorium building's lobby, which will be undergoing renovations as part of the church's next stage of expansions. The smaller auditorium is now a space for families to drop off their children during services and has key-card security entrances.
Part of the second phase of Parkview's planned is expansion is turning the smaller sanctuary into a space just for the church's Family Ministries.
"We are going to be turning that original sanctuary, making it just a little bit more, you know, kid friendly and turning that into their space," Hartman said.
The second phase of construction includes installing a kid play area in the smaller area's lobby alongside a cafe area, expanding the parking available and adding covered outdoor seating. Hartman said in a previous interview with the Observer that construction will finish in either late 2024 or early 2025.
