Lent/Holy Week
Themes
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Illustrated Ministry 2026 theme – The Work of Imagination $
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From Wilderness to Glory, Lent and Easter for Everyone by N. T. Wright, 2025, WJK, $
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Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms,” by Elizabeth F. Caldwell, 2023, WJK, $
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Hard and Holy Work, A Lenten Journey through the Book of Exodus, by Tyler D. Mayfield & Mary Alice Birdwhistell, 2024, WJK, $
Lent Worship Resources
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The Cross Tree: Involving children in Lenten worship, a Reformed Worship article, 2023
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Season of Beauty: A Lent and Easter Treasury of Readings, Poems, and Prayers by Editors at Paraclete Press, 2024
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Alleluia Butterfly stickers from Illustrated Ministry
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Ash Wednesday Liturgical service from Presbyterian Outlook, 2023
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Worshipping With Children website by certified PC(USA) educator Carolyn Brown
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Feasting on the Word Lenten Companion: A Thematic Resource for Preaching and Worship by David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor, Kimberly Bracken Long, 2014, $
Holy Week Worship Resources
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Ecopalms for Palm Sunday to promote environmental and social justice, March 21, 12:00 noon order cut-off date, $
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Free Palm Frond coloring page from Illustrated Ministry
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Make Holy Week Easter Flags (not year C)
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What a a one-page handout or a download of practical ideas for celebrating Easter can look like for the families at your church from the Presbyterian Church of Sweet Hollow
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A set of contemplative tactile stations for Maunday Thursday/Good Friday, year A, from Intergen
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Holy Week Family Worship: Outline for Maundy Thursday & Good Friday from Building Faith
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Holy Week ideas from Building Faith
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God’s Big Easter Path: An Intergenerational Journey From Palm Sunday to Jesus’ Resurrection from Family Faith Formation (CRC)
Intergenerational/Family
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40 Acts of Kindness
Be a RAKAVIST
An Act of Kindness from Salvation Army International
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Lenten Calendars
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Stations of the Cross resources: Illustrated Ministry
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Lent in Three Minutes, a video from Busted Halo
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Butterflies Themed event activities: Multigenerational milkweed planting – Milkweed is the food that monarchs need to make their migration, and this is a great Holy Week connection. Just when something is buried, new life bursts forth.
Be sure to take a little read here to see best practices for milkweed planting
For even more information and seasonal creation care awareness, look at the good work here at Journey North.
Use with the Alleluia Coloring Page & Poster from Illustrated Ministry
create some of these butterfly crafts
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Praying in Color, 2022 (year C) calendar & activity suggestions
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Children’s Activity & Coloring sheets (PDF) FREE from Open Life Church
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A Lenten Journey – this site offers prayer practices , rituals, and activities for faith formation for each week of Lent
Communications
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Six Ways to Help You Master Last Minute Easter Communications, a 3/2023 Church Juice article
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Easter Service PR Planning – 10 Things To Consider, 2024 article from The Unstuck Group
Devotions
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Women Who Followed Jesus; Forty Devotions on the Journey to Easter by Dandi Daley Mackall, 2024, Paraclete, $
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‘Twas the Season of Lent: Devotions and Stories for the Lenten and Easter Seasons, 2024 by Glenys Nellist, $
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May It Be So: Forty Days with the Lord’s Prayer, 2019 by Justin McRoberts, $
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2022-23 Free Lent Resource: Daily Reflection-Action Calendar to Cultivate Creation Justice from Creative Justice Ministries
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Journey To The Cross from d365, Devotions 365 days a year
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Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals For A Life of Imperfection, 2022, by Kate Bowler and Jessica Ritchie, $
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A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent by Walter Brueggeman, 2016, $
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*Walking With Jesus: Lenten Devotions by Paul Strobol, 2015, $.
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*Living Into Lent , 2020, by Donald McKim, $.
Resource pages
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Sacred Ordinary Days Lent resource page, curated music, books, podcasts, and more
Studies
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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren, 2019 $
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Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, Paraclete 1/2020 $
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Finding Jesus In The Psalms: A Lenten Journey by Barb Roose, 2023 $
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Lent in Plain Sight: A Devotion Through 10 Objects by Jill Duffield, 2020, A book review with suggestions for using, $
Studies In Our Resource Center To Borrow
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The Grace of Les Miserables by Matt Rawle 2021
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Entering the Passion of Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine 2018
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Witness at the Cross, Amy-Jill Levine, 2021
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Psalmist’s Cry: Scripts for Embracing Lament by Walter Brueggemann, 2011
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Give Up Something Bad for Lent by James W. Moore, 2012.
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24 Hours That Changed the World by Adam Hamilton, 2010.
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The Walk by Adam Hamilton, 2019
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Forgiveness by Adam Hamilton, 2012
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Forgivenss: A Lenten Study by Marjorie J. Thompson, 2014
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Easter From The Backside by J. Ellsworth Kalas, 2008
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One Thousand Gifts, A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp, 2011
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Soul Keeping: Caring For The Most Important Part of You, 2014 by John Ortberg