Faces of Easter III
As we move through the season of Lent, we’ve been sharing the Godly Play story we tell in Sunday School every year, the Faces of Easter. This story takes us, week by week, on a journey through special moments in the life of Jesus from infancy through adulthood, and brings us closer to the mystery of Easter. This week, share in the third part of the story, the one that tells of Jesus’s baptism by John. If you didn’t have the opportunity to join us for Family Time this morning, or if you’d simply like to experience the story again, you can watch the “official” version of it here.
The “wondering” for this story includes just two questions:
I wonder if anyone in this family has ever been baptized?
I wonder if there is anything in our house that we could bring to this story to help us tell it better?
The first question offers you the opportunity to share baptism stories as a family – your own if you remember it, those of the children in your life, even those you have witnessed at church. We hope you’ll find some time to tell those stories together this week.
We’d also like to “wonder” something else with you: Are there any other stories we could tell the same way we tell the Faces of Easter? Perhaps your family would like to spend some time thinking about your favorite Bible stories, and choose a handful of images that represent the most important parts of the story – just five or six, even if it’s a long story. Create your own plaques, or even just pictures of those images, and tell the story together. You can even create your own “wondering” questions to ask each other at the end. Maybe these stories will also help you get a little bit closer to the mystery of Easter!
If you create your own story plaques this week, please share them with us on our Facebook page! After all, we are all on this journey together...
