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Resources for Lent and Easter At–Home Kits

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Lent at Home

As we prepare for the second 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 started noticing 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 New Resources: If you’d like to learn more about our Lenten offerings, and receive samples of our two recently-released Lent products  click here to receive a FREE PDF with all the details.

We have a vast library of resources, and we’ve picked out some of our favorites for you.

Devotionals for Families

Devotionals for All Ages

Resources for Ash Wednesday

Resources for Burying & Raising the Alleluias

Lenten Psalms (Year B) Resources*

Stations of the Cross Resources*

Seven Last Words Resources*

Coloring Pages & Posters

Worship Resources

Please contact us if you have questions about any of these products. Blessings on your preparation for Lent 2021!

*A note about physical coloring posters: Our coloring posters have been fantastic opportunities to gather together in community with people of all ages sitting around a table coloring together. That is obviously not possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we’ve seen churches come up with some innovative and creative solutions.

Some churches have set up coloring stations outdoors and invited people to come in shifts to color a poster together. Others have purchased our high-quality physical coloring posters, cut them up and distributed them to families and church members, and then put the pieces back together to create a beautiful art display.

Another option would be to host an online discussion using one of the devotional guides and the coloring pages. Allow participants to color and reflect during the week, and then gather together online to go through the devotional guide and share their reflections.

Aside from the physical coloring posters (which also have digital options available), all of these resources are digital and can be purchased and easily printed and distributed to families and church members, but could also be emailed to people for easy distribution.

Alleluia Poster: Get Ready for Easter (COVID-19 Edition)

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Alleluia Easter Poster

FREEBIE: We have a brand new, FREE Alleluia Poster that we are giving out! Keep reading to find out how you can download it today!

Easter is one of those Sundays when churches go all out. Colorful decorations, Easter lilies, the flowering of the cross, streamers, trumpets, fanfares, big choirs, guest musicians, and kids dressed up in their Sunday best, ready to pose for family photos after the Easter Egg Hunt.

That won’t be happening this year.

Families and churches around the world are looking for creative ways to make this year’s COVID-19 Easter STILL be a celebration of new life, resurrection, and hope.

Illustrated Ministry continues to try and do what we can to help support churches and families through this difficult time.

We previously send out free faith formation resources. If you’d like to have access to those, you can sign up here.

Alleluia Poster

Alleluia Poster for Families
Note: We do not include a pre-colored version of the file – the files come as B&W PDFs.

So many people have found beautiful ways to paint the windows of their homes or leave inspiring and hope-filled messages in sidewalk chalk around their neighborhoods. As our team thought about what else we could offer to make Easter fun and celebratory, we designed a brand-new Alleluia poster illustration that 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 add some color and beauty to your home and your community.

Alleluia Posters

This poster is designed in our new Mosaic Poster Tiles format and comes formatted for both US Letter (8.5×11) and A4 paper. Here are some additional details:

  • Your download of the ZIP file will include two versions of the poster: a US Letter (8.5×11) file and an A4 file.
  • US Letter (8.5×11): This version requires four sheets of paper, and measures 20.39″x14.67″ when you’ve assembled and taped together.
  • A4: This version requires six sheets of paper, and measures 22.44″x16.14″ when assembled and taped together.

Below you can see some photos that give you an example of what it will look like when you’ve printed it, colored it, and assembled the poster tiles.

Happy Easter!

Download it, email it to friends and families in your congregation, and share the link on social media! We hope you’ll share photos of these Alleluia Posters, and if you post them on social media, make sure to either use the hashtag #illustratedministry or tag us (we’re @illustratedmin on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest).

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.

Alleluia Download Poster

Palm Frond Coloring Page: Get Ready for Palm Sunday

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Palm Frond Coloring Page

For yet a second time, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter are all going to feel very different, while we continue physical distancing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Worship will be through YouTube, Facebook Live, or Zoom…for yet another Palm Sunday & Easter. For many, it will be difficult not to be able to be together during this season. They’ll miss the Palm Sunday processions, the waving of the palm fronds, the trumpets on Easter morning, and the sound of kids running through grassy fields looking for eggs.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Illustrated Ministry has been creating free faith formation resources to share with churches and families. If you’d be interested in some free resources that we launched previously, you can check them out here. You can also find additional free faith formation resources here.

Palm Frond Coloring PagePalm Frond Coloring Page

Another freebie we are offering is a downloadable palm frond coloring page that you could send out to your church or post on your church’s website.

Have people download it, color it, and then you’ll at least have something to wave on Palm Sunday while you’re gathering with your family watching worship on TV, or if you’re all participating in an online Zoom worship gathering.

You can download the Palm Frond Coloring Page here.