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Creative Ways to Use Your Alleluia Coloring Page

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Alleluia Butterfly Easter

If you haven’t purchased your Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page & Poster yet, I wanted to share some fun ideas from our community.

The Alleluia Butterflies

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I got the following note from Kristen Koch, pastor at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in St. Ann, Missouri (yes, we featured them last week here):

I wanted to show you the idea I came up with for the alleluia file from Illustrated Ministry. I printed the 8.5×11 file, landscape, on cardstock paper. Then I cut it out, colored it and taped a jumbo craft stick to the back. I’ll hand them out (colored and uncolored) at the children’s message. Then I’ll tell the kids that whenever they hear “alleluia” in the service they should wave their signs.

Like we said in last week’s post, Creativity Breeds Creativity, it’s so much fun to see the creative ways people are using our resources. We all become more enriched and creative when you share your ideas – and so we just want to thank everyone who keeps sharing photos and letting us learn from you.

Here are a few other fun uses of our Alleluia Butterfly and Alleluia Easter Lily illustrations.

If you haven’t gotten your Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page & Poster yet, you can find it here.

We also have two other Alleluia designs you may be interested in for your Lenten/Easter plans:

The Worst Children’s Moment Ever

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I’m guessing that many of you have experienced many a children’s moment during your time in churches. I’ve witnessed some that have gone on for 10-15 minutes and they felt like they would never end (I’ve probably given one or two of those myself). I’ve seen some object lessons just go horribly wrong. I’ve seen pastors who seem like they have no understanding, whatsoever, of how to relate to children. It’s true that I’ve seen some bad ones.

However, a few years ago while I was serving a church in Oregon, I experienced, perhaps, my worst children’s moment.

It was Sunday morning, and I was scrambling around before worship trying to think of what to do for the children’s moment. We had a small group of kids, so I ended up landing on the idea that I would ask the kids how to spell G-O-D, and then give them some sheets with letters on them. I had four sheets with the letters L, O, V and E. See, it was going to be tricky – there were four sheets of paper, but I asked them to spell the name of God, which has three letters. But they had to use all of their signs.

I explained to the kids what they had to do, and after awhile, I thought they had it figured out. I was standing behind the kids, and heard some chuckles from the congregation, and so I stepped down to the floor and turned around, and this is what I saw.

Worst Children's Moment Ever

God is spelled…E-V-O-L?

Say it out loud. EVOL.

God is evil. Awesome. That went JUST like I had envisioned it.

I’m sure you all have your own stories of children’s moments that have just bombed – or perhaps just some really bad ones you’ve seen done before. Share your favorite “worst” children’s moments in the comments section.