Comments on: He Is Alive! An Easter Bible Lesson

By: misty scott

misty scott — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:29:51 +0000

Thank you for sharing this lesson idea. I love it and am going to try it for Resurrection Sunday this week. Was praying and asking God what to do and I believe this is perfect. Thank you again!

Misty Scott

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By: Jared Kennedy

Jared Kennedy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:31:13 +0000

Thanks Barbara. We’re blessed that you find our materials helpful.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:20:05 +0000

Your website is a blessing to me. I teach two little boys in our very small congregation. It’s hard to find material suited for them that is exciting and informative. I’m eager to use my first lesson this Palm Sunday. This Easter lesson sounds like just like what I need for my Easter lesson. Thank you so much for your ministry. P.S. I’m a Southern Baptist too!! That’s a good thing!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:16:41 +0000

My husband and I used your Easter idea in our church’s Camp Easter–mini VBS the day before. What we needed was “the story” for our part in the program, and we used part of your program. I have to confess that we made changes to suit our situation, and probably changed it all together, but I want to report back to you what we did, especially since you went out of your way to e-mail the program to us.
Briefly–we set the scene as we told the children that it was Good Friday, and that we felt so sad because Jesus had died. We talked about the purpose of his death on the cross. We prepared them for the next thing by explaining that there wasn’t time to properly bury Jesus using all of the oinments (okay, the little kids understood handcream as a description!) We said that we would have to return after the Sabbath to do the job right. Then each child took a strip of cloth that I had torn from a sheet, and we went into a nearby small room where one of our teen boys was lying on a kid’s height table. We had prepared them for what we would see. The room was only faintly lighted. Each of us–child and adult escorts–then laid a strip of cloth on “Jesus,” to symbolize our burying him. (One little girl was so sad, way too sad for 4 years old, and so I had her give our teen’s arm a squeeze as I told her who it was.) As we left that room, we slammed the door and explained that we had rolled the stone over the tomb.
Then back to our story room to talk about what had happened, and again why Jesus died. THEN: all of us girls pretended to be Mary Magdalene. We took our pretend pots of oinment and went back to that room–and Glory! found the door open, the stone rolled away, and Jesus gone! We Mary Magdalenes hurried back to the story room and told the boys–who were all Peter and John, that Jesus was gone from the tomb.
Boys and girls alike hurried back to the room and crowded in to see that the strips of cloth were lying there and the square face cloth was folded at one end of the table. As we left the room, I pretended to hear the angel say: do not be afraid for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here–He has risen, just as he said. (Absolutely my all-time favorite Bible verse which we have the kids memorize in our Sunday School.)
We trouped back to the story room, talked about what that meant. Then they got to write their names on small strips of the same cloth that had wrapped Jesus.
That meant that we put our sins on Jesus, and we stuck them in the chicken-wire wrapped cross that our church has.
And finally we gave each child 2 dollar-store lilies–one to put on that cross, and one to keep as a reminder that Jesus is alive. We also led them in a “salvation prayer,” but as a group. The Holy Spirit works as he will and one 5-year old took it to heart and loudly announced that she had asked Jesus into her heart. And she was eager to tell others! A 4th grader was visiting with her slumber party group who came at the invitation of the little hostess. She also had turned to Jesus! And she is one of the lunch buddies that we sponsor at her school.
Okay, pause to enjoy with awe the mystery of God at work in lives.
Oh, and the little one who was so very sad about Jesus dying?–as we talked about he rose from the dead, her little face lit up and she shouted: “God loves me!”
IOt doesn’t get any better than this.
I guess, we did change things a fair amount, but your program gave us grist for our mill and produced fruit in the kingdom. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you. Maggie and Ralph

By: Penny

Penny — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:53:24 +0000

Looking forward to using and leaarning more of what I can do to teach our children about Jesus and what he did for us. And the gift He gave us through His death and Resurrection. Praying the excitement will come through using your ideas and lessons. Thank you and God Bless what you do to make our time teaching a great experience. I plan on sharing your ideas with our Sunday School teachers, they are looking for ideas.

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By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:54:34 +0000

God Bless You!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:08:27 +0000

When I printed this lesson, it came out too small to read. How can I print it in the size that shows on my monitor!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:06:41 +0000

Hooray and Hallelujah! This looks like the perfect thing for our Easter Club, a mini VBS the morning before Easter Sunday. My husband and I would like to use this lesson during “the story” time with each of our groups of children.

Question: how can I print this large enough so that we can actually read it (we’re 70 years old and the ole eyes ain’t what they used to be). I’ve printed the lesson out, but it only comes out extremely tiny. Thanks in advance!