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Worship: Including Children in Holy Week & Easter

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Including Children in Holy Week/Easter Worship

Ideas for Easter Day and Season

Prayers and Blessings for Easter

Seven prayers and four blessings that you can use at an Easter Vigil, on Easter Day, or throughout the Easter season.

Printable Resources for Children & Families

What Does This Day Mean?: Handout for the Great Vigil at Home
What Does This Day Mean?: Handout for Easter Day at Home

TEACHING

Three Teaching Points for Easter

Interested in ideas for teaching children, youth, or adults about the meaning of Easter? This article highlights 3 key themes that you can explore in formation gatherings during this season.

ACTIVITIES

You've Been Egged: A Fundraiser for the Easter Season

This article shares tips for organizing a fundraiser by delivering surprise Easter egg gift bags and baskets of treats.

Build a Better *Biblical* Easter Basket

Want creative ideas for what to put in Easter baskets for kids? This article offers suggestions that invite children deeper into Easter's message.

Mixing It Up: Creating a Seasonal Spotify Playlist for Your Parish

Enjoy a 2020s "mixtape" (as author Michelle Palmer describes it) as a community for the Easter season. Check out this article to learn how to make it happen. This project could be tailored to ministries with families, youth groups, college students, and adult groups of all ages as well.

Video Blessings: An Idea for COVID and Beyond

If your community is interested in a digital ministry offering for Easter, this article provides ideas and guidance in creating video blessings for church members to share with the congregation.

Easter Craft: Resurrection Butterflies

This article provides a simple craft that children can do to celebrate Easter, and it only requires 6 basic items plus water.

Burying & Raising the Alleluia Children's MomentsBurying & Raising the Alleluia Children's Moments

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download Illustrated Ministry's free Palm Frond Coloring Page: https://illstrtdm.in/FreePalmFrond

Lent in a Box from Church Anew

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

  • Equipping Event (in-person or online - register below)
  • Two Sermon Series options
  • Worship Resources
  • Daily Devotional
  • Graphics for worship and social media
  • Instructions for a Spiritual Practice
  • Children’s Ministry Content
  • Communication ideas

     

Openings: Lent, 2022 invites participants to explore the same complex and challenging feelings Jesus experienced in his final days. Wonder Stations enables households or congregations to develop a Stations of the Cross for Good Friday that can be shared in homes, church buildings or outside.

Liturgies for Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Stations of the Cross (Good Friday), Easter Vigil, and Easter Morning are on their way!

Co-Creating a Prayer for Lent “Mad Lib” Style

includes great insight on using technologies such as zoom to reach people in new, sustaining, and sustainable ways

SHC_March_blog Including Children in Holy Week

As we look ahead to Holy Week, this blog post from Jessica Davis explores ways to include children in these important services.

   How to Help Families Celebrate Holy Week at Home (Again)

   6 Creative Ways to Include Children in Easter Worship (Virtually or In Person)

   God's Big Easter Story: A Holy Week Journey for Families

          

Yoga Devotions that pair texts for Palm Sunday, the Three Holy Days and Resurrection Sunday with movement and stretching.   

Rev. Elsa Cook suggests: Maybe Maundy Thursday is a day where worship doesn't happen online in any form but it is a day of service like this church did.

Watch the Easter iteration of Ms. Suzy's Place; and find her other 8 videos here.