Get Ready For Easter

This Sunday Noah's Club will be starting a new series called "Get Ready for Easter." We will be learning about Jesus and how to accept hard things and how to worship him building up to Easter Sunday learning about the good news that he came back to life. I love the title Empowering Kids used for this curriculum. In planning Easter services for kids and adults staff and volunteers need to prepare well in advance to "Get Ready for Easter." More volunteers, more planning in communicating effectively this life changing message of what Easter brings.

As parents and teachers there are things we can do at home to prepare our hearts and our kids hearts for this significant day.

Maybe find creative ways to explain Lent to kids using ideas from here.

One family I know is having a weekly tea time. Each Sunday around 4 pm they will bring out their nice china cups and pastries and have tea together. While the little ones enjoy their delicasies their mom will read a picture book to them about Easter.

The Sunday's leading up to Easter can be just as important as Sunday, March 23. Here are a few ways we can prepare ourselves before we see our kids on Sunday:

- Pray for the kids throughout the week that we will be coming into contact with. Maybe God will bring one specific name to mind that we should be spending extended prayer time on. Maybe send a note in the mail to the child or family that keeps coming to mind. Preschoolers LOVE getting mail.

-Read through weekly lesson a few times and anticipate what questions kids might ask you.

-Instead of getting to class right when service starts or a run in a few minutes late feeling rushed and frazzled get there 15 minutes early to greet the kids that get there early. Or better yet arrive thirty minutes early to pray with the other volunteers serving that day.

One thing I did with my kids this year was plant Spring bulbs in the backyard. My son likes to check on them periodically and this gives me an opportunity to talk about new life in all of it's different forms.

What are some things you might be doing to "Get Ready for Easter" this year?