By Jay Sidebotham Join the Journey through Lent, illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Jay Sidebotham, invites spiritual reflection and is a wonderful companion for the Lenten season. This poster is just right for hanging on the wall or keeping on a table for daily coloring. Share these with your congregation, youth group, friends, and family, and…
By Illustrated Ministry Discover the vast resources from Illustrated Ministry that you can download today to do with children, youth, and families. They are digital downloads which makes them easy to either print to send home or email to your families. Explore the many downloads here!
By Building Faith Editors Lent is a season that brings us before our humanity. The Lenten prayers and liturgies with which Christians may be most familiar tend to emphasize the ways in which human beings come up short: the finitude of our lives, the limits of our bodies and minds, the imperfection of our faithfulness…
By Laura Alary How can we help children experience the true meaning of Lent, cultivate generosity, and prepare their hearts for Easter? Make Room by Laura Alary offers an innovative and engaging way for children to approach Lent, teaching them how to “make room” for Jesus in their everyday lives through acts of kindness, hospitality,…
with Traci Smith, Herb Montgomery, and Daneen Akers Listen in as they talk about understanding the cross and how to share this story with your children.
By Traci Smith The use of plastic eggs — called “resurrection eggs” — has become a common tool for telling the story of Jesus’ life. I chose to do this by using four symbols for his life, four symbols for his death, and four for his resurrection. Detailed explanations for each symbol can be found…
By Illustrated Ministry Free Palm Frond Coloring Page: Engage Your Congregation This Palm Sunday from Illustrated Ministry.
By Anne-Marie Miller Our special Holy Week activities for children enable us to enter and explore the great mystery with all of our senses and with the luxury of extra time for questions and for exploration. We see that our children’s narrative understanding is richer; many also attend some of the evening service and have…
By Gayle Boss Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and leopards. We share this beautiful blue-green globe with creatures magnificent, delicate, intricate-and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any other time in Earth’s history. Spend Lent with twenty-five of these wild ones. Vivid descriptions of their lives and beautiful black and white illustrations…
By Alissa French Case The night before Ash Wednesday goes by many names:—Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras—but all of these celebrations mark the same occasion: one last hurrah before Lent begins. There are so many ways to celebrate, but below are three of my very favorite Shrove Tuesday traditions. Find out more about Shrove…