The kids and I just had the BEST week learning all about the ultimate sacrifice and the overwhelming love of our incredible Father. It started last Sunday when I taught Kason's class about Jesus' return to Jerusalem during Palm Sunday. During worship, the kids lined up around the stage and auditorium with palm leaves as our preacher taught the lesson again and our junior high youth minister escorted a donkey around to the kids. Which was really tangible for the kids since we heavily discussed the type of King Jesus really was and how crazy it was he humbled himself by choosing a donkey rather than a more powerful horse or stallion. Needless to say, the kids were excited to learn about what the real meaning of Easter this week at home. We read from a new book Mimi got the kids which is amazing...
The stories are told in a way that is easy for all ages of kids to grasp and then each page has a love letter from God to the kids which was pretty neat. We read and learned all about the last supper...
Kason, Zoe, and I had a great conversation about who the twelve disciples were, why we continue with the tradition of communion, and what bread & wine represent in communion. Oh yes friends even Zoe knew a few of the answers...eeek, proud momma moment! After our discussion, we made unleavened bread together...
then shared communion together as a family. Kason prayed over the bread and Zoe prayed over the grape juice...I just wish I could have recorded their sweetness as they remembered Jesus. Max even tried the grape juice and LOVED it...haha! The next lesson we read from the bible, was about Jesus' arrest, Peter's denial, and how Pilate chose not to save Jesus. Then from our love letters book, we read about the ultimate sacrifice...
and made a crown of thorns...
The last lesson was about how the story didn't end on the day Jesus was crucified! Hallelujah...God provided hope when Jesus was risen from the dead and the tomb was empty! The kids and I made resurrection rolls where we prepared Jesus' body (a marshmallow) and laid it in the tomb...
but when we went to eat breakfast, the tomb was empty! What joy to spend my morning worshipping praising, and celebrating the overwhelming amount of love from our Heavenly Father with my little bunnies!
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