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Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy
We’re excited to share with you a FREE Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy! Our worship liturgy includes a Call to Worship, Opening Prayer, Blessing of the Backpacks Liturgy, Prayers of the People, Closing Prayer, and a Benediction. To download our FREE Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy, click here. If you want to share this resource with others, click the share button below. Thanks! For years, Illustrated Ministry has created illustrated tags for the Blessing of the Backpacks. Many churches participate in something like this as part of their back-to-school traditions. This year, for…
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Prayers for Marking a Year of COVID-19: Free Coloring Pages
As churches and communities begin to look for ways to mark the passing of time during COVID-19, we thought we’d put together a set of prayers and coloring pages to help with that process. It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it. As we brought our kids home from school and college and tried to figure out what Zoom worship looked like (it will only be for a few weeks, right?), we had no idea the amount of time we’d be staying home, the number of people who would die,…
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Resources for Lent and Easter At–Home Kits
UPDATE: To see the most updated list of our available products for Easter and Lent, make sure to visit our store and search for Lent. As we prepare for another Lent & Easter season during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen just how creative church leaders have been as you have faithfully reached out and connected with families in your congregations. We’ve also noticed posts in many Facebook Groups asking for ideas for Lent-at-Home kits or Lent-in-a-box resources for families. We want to help you design your Lenten and Easter kits with resources that are high-quality, digital, and easy to distribute. Brand…
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Free Downloadable Epiphany Star Coloring Page
Epiphany is coming, and we want to help churches and families prepare to celebrate the magi’s visit to Jesus. We wanted to share this Epiphany Star Coloring Page with you in hopes that you could send it home with families or use it in worship to celebrate Epiphany. Free Coloring Page to Celebrate Epiphany We hope you’ll love our Epiphany Star Coloring Page freebie. You can email it to your church or post it on your church’s website. Or maybe you want to download a copy for your family to help celebrate Epiphany. There is even some space in the…
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Illustrated Nativity Figures: Get Creative with Life-Size Nativity Figures
Here at Illustrated Ministry, we love the creativity of our customers and our community. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again and again: some of our best product ideas have come from our customers. Some of these include backpack tags, the inspiration for creating Compassion Camp, and our Illustrated Nativity Sticker Sheets, to name a few. We are delighted when customers reach out to us with fun ideas. Last year, we received a phone call from some friends at Saint John’s United Methodist Church (Austin, Texas), and they had a fun idea. They loved our illustrated figures in…
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Pentecost Coloring Page: Get Ready for Pentecost
Pentecost is coming, and we wanted to help churches and families get ready to celebrate the birthday of the Church by providing a free Pentecost Coloring Page. Free Coloring Page to Celebrate the Church’s Birthday Following up on the popularity of our free downloadable Palm Frond Coloring Page, we’d like to offer a downloadable Holy Spirit coloring page that you could send out to your church or post on your church’s website. Or maybe you just want to download a copy for your family to use to help celebrate Pentecost. Download it, email it to friends and families, folks in…
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Alleluia Poster: Get Ready for Easter
Ready to Download Your Alleluia Poster? We’ve put the files together in a ZIP file, and we’ll send you the link when you click here to download your Alleluia Poster. Originally created at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, this continues to be a beautiful and fun poster to create for your home or your church. Alleluia Poster We designed this Alleluia poster illustration so that it could be colored and displayed in homes around the world. And we want you to have it for FREE! We hope our Alleluia Poster will be one more way you can…
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Free Palm Frond Coloring Page: Engage Your Congregation This Palm Sunday
As you’re preparing for Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter, don’t forget to download our free Palm Frond Coloring Page! Palm Frond Coloring Page We are offering this downloadable palm frond coloring page that you could send out to your church or post on your church’s website. You could also send it home with families the week before Palm Sunday and have everyone bring their colored-in Palm Frond on Palm Sunday. You can download your Palm Frond Coloring Page here.
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Mosaic Poster Tiles: Coloring Posters You Can Print at Home
We are excited to announce a new poster format for three of our Easter coloring posters: Mosaic Poster Tiles. While we live and do ministry during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve had to rethink everything. What does school look like? How do we lead worship from our homes over video-conferencing apps? Should I go to the grocery store, order my groceries, or just eat my pantry to the end? This is why we started to create and offer free, faith formation weekly resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can sign up to receive these here. The team at Illustrated Ministry has…
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We’re now Illustrated Ministry!
Illustrated Children’s Ministry launched in September 2015, and has since grown into a worldwide community. These past four years, we have been honored to create and provide progressive materials for families and children’s ministries all around the world. Over these past years, our customers have shown us how well our illustrated materials work, not only for children but for people in all different stages of life. Our coloring posters have been used in settings for all ages; intergenerational church events, nursing homes, campus ministries, youth group, mission trips, university faculty lounges, camps and conferences, and more! A familiar anecdote that…