tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995851195771634116.post5874407823611092673..comments2024-03-23T16:00:11.309-04:00Comments on Worshiping With Children: Year C - Observing Lent and Celebrating Easter (2013)Worshiping with Childrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12023055938126631743noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995851195771634116.post-46257026181814928602013-03-07T16:22:58.440-05:002013-03-07T16:22:58.440-05:00Thank you Carolyn! I am so grateful for your resp...Thank you Carolyn! I am so grateful for your response. I've posed this question to many others and received little response. I love your ideas about sad stories, sad prayers, and black drawings, plus time in a remote dark room by candlelight. Nicole VanderMeulennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995851195771634116.post-17395150780082332982013-03-07T14:40:14.408-05:002013-03-07T14:40:14.408-05:00Nicole, what about instead of a cardboard tomb fin...Nicole, what about instead of a cardboard tomb finding the most remote-feeling room in the church and going there, closing the door and turning out the lights (keep the battery candles or lanterns)- just like the disciples did after Jesus was killed. For children the darkness of Saturday night is less about fear and more about the sadness of Jesus being dead forever, or so the disciples thought then. So tell the stories of Holy Week, make up sad prayers and draw sad pictures with only black crayons. If the adult service announces the empty tomb, do so in your upper room service,then bust out for some games outside - maybe glow in the dark sticks to dance with. If the adult service will end on a more somber tone, plan a way to look ahead to Easter morning. (Especially young children can be overwhelmed if they think the story stops here - and some may not show up on Sunday morning to hear the ending.) To keep somber adults and children in somewhat the same place as they leave church, make the glow in the dark egg hunt a quiet hunt - only whispers - because you know the surprise that will come tomorrow, but it has to wait 'til then. Who else has something to add? Worshiping with Childrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023055938126631743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995851195771634116.post-63443966596057155762013-03-07T14:02:20.663-05:002013-03-07T14:02:20.663-05:00We have a contemporary "in-between times"...We have a contemporary "in-between times" worship on Easter Eve, filled with blues and jazz music and a sermon that is very meaningful for adults. This year I want to add "something for kids". I want to focus on the darkness and uncertainty of the night, without focusing on fear or being scary. I've thought of a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt, sharing story in a cardboard, battery candle lit tomb, something with a fire (s'more's?) candles. Maybe we will join part of worship and then move to our own space. Any ideas to help enhance, solidify, my Holy Saturday plans would be appreciated!Nicole VanderMeulennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995851195771634116.post-14572802843802917542013-01-11T12:24:26.693-05:002013-01-11T12:24:26.693-05:00I love your heart idea during Lent. I am going to ...I love your heart idea during Lent. I am going to use it in my children's sermons. I am looking forward to seeing what kind of heart you come up with for each week. I am a United Methodist pastor's spouse who does the Good News for Kids each week in worship and during special times of the church year (Advent, Lent, the 4 weeks before our VBS) I try to do a series of kids sermons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com