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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...

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 song was written by Sam as a reflection on the themes of Lent, but it can work at any other time of the year.  It focuses on meeting God in the hard places, allowing him to grow us through difficult times and trusting in him for a 'resurrection dawn'. ...

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...

This piece of spoken worship is particularly useful because it requires no printed or projected words to involve a whole congregation.  We've used it at Spring Harvest, on our 'How would Jesus worship' tour and in regular Sunday services. Explain to the congregation that you are going to say a line,...

This act of worship is designed to encourage people to think beyond the cradle and to put the Resurrected Christ into the Christmas story. Activity: As the service begins and you give notices, welcome, sing etc. have people come and place baubles in the manger.  Then at the time you want to...

We hope that you enjoy this poem by Chloe Axford, especially as you prepare and plan for Easter. It is based on John 20:1-18 and the image of the empty tomb as a symbol of Jesus' resurrection. See also Chloe's other resource on this theme: engageworship.org/ideas/Easter_Promise   The Promise of the Empty...