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This is a prayer to be read by one voice.  Before the prayer begins (perhaps during a song before the prayer time) hand out ‘sour’ sweets.  You can purchase packets of jelly sweets that are covered with ‘sour’ sugar.  They come in many guises and different price brackets, but are...

  To symbolise our gratitude and personal acknowledgement that Jesus was pierced for our transgressions, invite people to come forward a dip their finger in the red paint and make a mark on the cross.   Practical note: have baby wipes freely available.        

This Easter Sunday we are planning a Resurrection Praise Celebration.  We are splitting the teaching into two halves – in the first half the preacher will show a giant paper world, and talk about how God created everything perfect.  He will then rip the world into pieces, talking about how...

Many things in life promise much but fail to deliver. Putting our faith in money, fame, career, relationships, clothes, food, drink, houses etc can leave us feeling betrayed and empty. But at Easter we can remember one 'empty' promise that offered everything and didn't fail to deliver - the promise...

  This song is designed to be improvised! There are a few basic verses to get you going - you can then choose to stop, or carry on with improvised verses. The leader or members of the group/congregation call out 4 or 5 syllable phrases which everyone then joins in singing,...

This is an idea that we used last year on the run up to Easter, inspired by a gift given to my daughter, of a (dare I say 'charm') bracelet depicting elements of the 23 Psalm. We decided to adapt this and created a bracelet that would help us reflect...

Here’s an idea that you can either use the week before Easter Sunday (Palm Sunday), on Good Friday or on Easter Sunday (or even during a regular communion service).  It could just as easily be used by a small group as by a large congregation. The idea...

These three Easter scripts are designed to be performed on Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but each could stand alone if necessary. They depict the Easter story through the eyes of Ellie, an ambitious young TV reporter and Graham, a weathered and experienced TV cameraman. Notes on direction: Palm Sunday...

AdAM Parkes and his lovely wife Sue - under the artist name Twilight Bark - have recorded three songs for the Holy Week/Easter period.  These aren't so much congregational worship songs as contemporary performance tracks you could play with a PowerPoint or other visuals, or perhaps get some dancers to...

Richard Lyall's Christmas fractal images received the biggest reaction to any resource we've put up, so its great that he's shared a bunch of Easter-themed ones for us here!  They have hundreds of potential uses in your Easter services - he shares them under a Creative Commons license which you can...

The idea is to make individually crafted 3D style glasses with coloured lenses. The big point is that through Jesus everything looks different (just like looking through coloured lenses).   It might help to...

The church I belong to doesn’t do much to celebrate Holy Week, which means in practice that we don’t meet all together between Palm Sunday and Easter Day. I wanted to create a way to walk through Jesus’ final week as a man, in one act of worship, suitable for...