Faith Formation: Holy Week & Easter

Download Illustrated Ministry's Palm Frond Coloring Page here.

A Place for You Starter Pack introduces new communicants to Holy Communion with Dan Erlander's A Place for You Interactive Edition: My Holy Communion Book.

Find additional resources for preparing for First Communion here.

Good Friday Message: “Why Was Jesus Tortured to Death?” Or, Death to Our Toxic Ideas of Why Jesus Lived and Died

by Bret Myers

Finding The Way of The Cross (or The Stations of the Cross) in Nature

These guides provide children and adults a way to discover that the story of Good Friday and the cross is written into the natural world about them if they only know where to look!

Illustrated Ministry has resources for:

Rev. Emily Meyer offers a neighborhood, intergenerational Good Friday Stations of the Cross with preparatory activities throughout Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday and Holy Wednesday and a Leader Guide for you. She also shares creative ideas for sermons and liturgical elements for Palm Sunday, The Easter Vigil and Easter Morning.

Traci Smith offers a “redo” of the traditional Jelly Bean Prayer. The traditional one focuses on the darkness of one’s heart and the red blood of Jesus. This redo is more of a general reflection on new life and Spring and can be used during the season after Easter as well as for Lent and Easter. I hope you enjoy it! This prayer is found in Faithful Families for Lent, Easter, and Resurrection by Traci Smith. Chalice Press; 2022.

Illustrated Ministry offers:

• Virtual Easter Pageant 
• An Illustrated Resurrection Set
• An Illustrated Holy Week: Including children’s moment illustrations, children’s activity bulletins for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, coloring pages, and interactive worship guides for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday (which would take some adapting to virtual church, but would give you some great material to get you started); and Holy Week Coloring Pages.
• Easter Coloring Pages + Mosaic Poster Tiles & Easter Coloring Pages, Vol. 2
• Alleluia Butterly

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

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