So we’re now officially about one month to go before we arrive at the biggest church-going day of the year: easter. Which naturally begs the question, “what are you doing?” There’s lots of different things that many churches do, but I thought I’d share on a few resources that have come up so that you can sharpen your planning.

1. One resource is called PlanningEaster.com. It’s put together by Shawn Wood of Seacoast Church and they want to use that site as a resource to share what’s been working for easter programs.

From the site:

“Instead of live feeds at scheduled times, over the next four weeks, we’ll have different blog, video, and picture posts constantly being uploaded.  We will be hearing from leaders from different churches around the country on how they are creatively planning Easter weekend events.  Got an idea?  Submit it on the “Share” page.”

Of note, they’ve also started using the hashtag of #planningeaster on Twitter, so you could easily do a search with that hashtag and see some blurbs of what people are planning. I have to say that I really commend the spirit of such sites. Everyone realizes that it’s a big day, so why hold the most effective methods to yourself? Share it!

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