05 Apr Tell Us About Easter at Your Church
The Easter season–Lent, Palm Sunday, Easter–is always exciting for churches. There are special events, and often large attendances. Churches do some pretty creative things to capitalize on the Easter season.
So tell us what happened during the Easter season at your church, using this form. Then we can share it with other UBs. Or, just leave a comment with this post.
Pastor Marvin Schwartz
Posted at 09:13h, 05 AprilWe started planning for Easter already in January. I gave this much thought and came up with an idea for a sermon series that would answer life’s most challenging questions: Is God real? Can I trust the Bible? If God loves us why is there suffering? Is Jesus real? What happens when I die? Why did Jesus come to earth? We promoted this series with radio ads, newspaper ads, mailers, and simply by inviting people. Since then I became ill and am unable to do the series, but with the help of our youth pastor John Emmons and a great staff we kicked this series off on Easter. I Lord blessed our commitment to reaching people resulting in our largest crowd ever here. We had around 400 individuals attend one of our two services. Easter has been a way for us to reach the community around us. I think Jesus would have wanted it like this.
Rev Becky A. Hiebert
Posted at 14:38h, 06 AprilWe have always had our traditional 8a “Sunrise” service followed by a big breakfast, Easter Egg Hunt, and then the Service. We usually follow the service with a balloon ascenssion that is beautiful and reminds of Christ’s rising from the grave. I always host a community Easter Egg hunt on the church grounds on the Saturday before and take the opportunity to share the Easter story with the neighbor kids and families. Raining this year so the numbers were way down. The kid’s got lots of candy :).