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  • easter morning

    Join us April 5 at 8:30 or 10:00AM for a celebration of new life! Easter is the morning we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus! We'll have an inspiring message of hope, beautiful, encouraging music, awesome kids programming for birth - 5th grade and youth environments for 6th - 12th grade and a welcoming, beautiful atmosphere.

  • the hunt for the golden egg

    Somewhere in our region is a golden egg worth $500. Starting March 15, clues will begin dropping on this page, below. Follow the clues, find the egg, crack it open, follow the instructions within and claim your prize! 


    See below for more details. 

  • lent

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  • the road to the resurrection

    On March 29 during our Sunday morning, we invite you to step into the story of Holy Week and experience the journey to Easter in a meaningful and interactive way. After the walk-through experience, we’ll gather outside (weather permitting) for a joyful celebration of the resurrection on the lawn with light refreshments, family activities and time to connect together.

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the hunt is over!

Congratulations Duell crew for finding the 2026 Golden Egg!! It was hidden in a bush under the Oxford Valley Mall Sign. 


Clue explanations will be given shortly.


We'll do it again at Christmas! 

the hunt for the $500 golden egg


frequently asked questions

  • This egg hunt is open to the entire community! The only person who knows its whereabouts is Pastor Ross and Emily so they are the only ones excluded from finding it (but their kids are not). 

  • The picture above is the actual egg. It's the size of a typical easter egg, wrapped in gold tape. 

  • If you find the egg, cut it open, or unwrap it and follow the instructions inside. 

  • The hunting zone are as follows: HWY 1 to the North, the Delaware River to the East and South, 295 to the West with Neshaminy Creek as the Southwest boundary. SEE BELOW

  • The hunt officially begins on March 10. Clues can be found below. The hunt will end when the egg is found. 

  • We are a church IN our community, FOR our community. We love providing fun, family friendly activities to help our community thrive. We (obviously) believe in the work, the hope, the life and the community of Restoration Church so we want as many people to know who we are and what we're about. This is one way to introduce our community to Restoration in a fun way. 

  • Yes, anyone can access it without trespassing. 

  • Places that are publicly accessible :) 

  • As many as are needed. Previous hunts have seen anywhere between 6 and 15 clues be released. 

  • Every few days though we release more when people "play along" on social media by helping us share and interact with us. 

  • You can do whatever you want but he (and Emily) is sworn to secrecy. But he would love to get to know you so introduce yourself if you see him :) 

  • No. The egg is worth $500 which is under the IRS threshold for winnings. 

search boundaries

The egg is somewhere within these boundaries:

NORTH - HWY 1

EAST - The Delaware River

SOUTH - The Delaware River

SOUTH WEST - Neshaminy Creek

WEST - HWY 295


clue 1

Glycerine dripped like morning dew, making a pond for doves and turtles to

swim,

little things among giants . A

monkey came forth from the forest floor, it's

body covered in briar and mud, like an

alien among us.

Comedown said the turtle, be clean, everything's fine, everything's good,

everything zen in this pond. The monkey

swallowed, gathered its courage, shunned the

distant voices of fear and shame and jumped, making

history as the first swimming monkey.


The red words above are all related to the band BUSH, primarily their first album. This was to indicate it was in a bush :) 

clue 2

The answer to clue 1 looks like Poppy's older sister.

Poppy is a character from the movie Trolls. Her older sister is Viva. Viva has wild, tall, yellow hair, like the bush/grass it was hidden in.

clue 3

there are 4 intelligible words/word combinations that are longer than 3 letters in this puzzle. find them for an important clue to the egg's whereabouts.


the words can go in any direction.


the four words are "trump", "silver", "new mexico", "jack morris" These are all references to the number 47, a reference to the zip code it was in. 


clue 4

Joe, John and Jake met Jim and Jared for a walk north. Along their journey they stopped by Bernard and Norman's but decided to keep going further. 


5 guys are mentioned, referencing the restaurant. Bernard and Norman were the founders of TJ Maxx. If you drew a line from 5 Guys through TJ Maxx you'd arrive at/near the egg.

clue 5

Nora sat alone on a park bench, watching people look for a golden egg as she waited for her friend. Oliver, her dog, sat idly by her side, eating grass and licking up puddles. Tempted to join before her friend arrived, she got to her feet and glanced around. A man by a bush yelled that he found it, but it was a only a shiny rock. "Too many hours wasted," he murmured. 

Another happy hunter frustrated by being so close...yet so far. 

"Perhaps I'll try a different park," he thought as he got in his car and drove away. 

Anthony, the friend, finally arrived with the game plan. "Research helps," he said as he laid out the map on the park bench (it was marked up with red marker). "Keep looking in the bushes, that guy was on to something."


Take each capital letter and it'll read "NOT AT A PARK"

clue 6

Viva got a haircut.


After the egg was placed, the bush/grass it was in was cut down - hence the haircut.

clue 7

The archer stands

where the coveted object rests

and aims his arrow south


What does an archer aim at? A target. Target was directly south of the egg.

clue 8

The archer pivots at the coveted location...

the sun is high in the sky... 

he raises his bow in quick defense...

but lowers it...  

What he hears is not a threat...

but the song of patriots in the distance...


A "pivot" is a 90 degree turn in military speak. The archer is now aiming at MIssion BBQ who stops their work to sing the national anthem everyday at noon.

clue 9

If his arrows are lines

then "x" marks the spot. 


Draw lines from target - North and from Mission BBQ - West and they would cross at the egg.

clue 10

Once "Viva" matures, she'll look more like Fuzzbert. 


The grass was only yellow because of winter. Once it grows it would be green.

clue 11

Anyone else feel like their head is scrambled?

REady to give up by this confused game?

Doing this quest is leaving my brain muddled. 

Not just for you, the hunters...making these clues is leaving me jumbled.

SInging sometimes helps ease my disorganized mind.

Gotta cope with the chaos somehow.

Under different circumstances, the bewilderment might be peace.

Not this time...this is leaving me perplexed.


The first, capital, letters are scrambled but when organized read "UNDER A SIGN"

clue 12

"I love red, orange and yellow."

"Nice! I love purple, teal, and pink."

"Why'd you put it like that?"

"Like what?"

"With a pause after teal?" 

"It changed the meaning - did you intend this?" 

"How so? It's merely preferential." 

"It's less formal."

"So. Who cares? I'm a pretty informal guy."


This clue is a reference to the "oxford comma." It's what the clue is describing. The egg was hidden under the Oxford Valley Mall sign.