Our Mission

Our mission as the Believer’s Church Children’s Ministry is to enrich what parents are already teaching their children about God at home so they can come to know and love Jesus and grow in a relationship with Him. With all of the closures and cancellations going on right now, we are obviously not able to hold our typical Beginnings and Foundations classes for children. But one way we can still come alongside parents during this time is to share an Easter activity idea that you could use with your kids at home. Maybe it will even turn into a tradition for your family like it has for ours.

“Easter Mountain”

A few years ago, I came across an excellent idea for an activity to help prepare young children for Easter. The idea came from Noel Piper’s book Treasuring God in Our Traditions. Since the culture we live in tells us that Easter is all about bunnies and colored eggs and baskets filled with candy, I was thankful to find an activity that has helped us teach the real meaning of Easter to our children.

In short, after making an “Easter Mountain” out of homemade play dough as well as some pipe cleaner people, we use these props each day of the week leading up to Easter to act out some of the main events of Holy Week. After laying Jesus in the tomb in the mountain on Friday and covering the entrance with a “stone”, the highlight is Sunday morning when Jesus is moved to the top of the mountain, showing that He is triumphantly alive! For an excerpt of the book with a fuller explanation of this activity, click here and scroll to the “Holy Week” section of the blog entry.

Photo Highlights

Here are a few pictures and video of what we were up to in the Beginnings and Foundations Rooms since our last update.

Prayer Requests:

• For us as parents to make the most of the extra time we have right now with our children to teach them about God and what it looks like to trust Him.
• For opportunities for families to minister to neighbors and other families, and to see the needs around us.