Messy Church in a Messy World
Thursday, March 24, 2022
2:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern
Leaders – Roberta Egli and Johannah Myers
Sponsored by Practical Resources for Churches
Messy Church is a global movement that focuses on a way to be church for all-ages together to engage in faith formative activities celebrating the centrality of the love of Jesus Christ. The messy pandemic world has led to innovative changes in ‘how’ Messy Church works but has strengthened the ‘why’ Messy Church is reaching unchurched and de-churched people. Join us as we share how our Messy Churches have adapted and continue to quickly adapt to the changing environment.
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Messy Easter: Tell the Story
30 Minute LEARN Video is Now Available
Discover a variety of Messy ways to tell the Easter story while making intentional choices that fit with your theme. We will explore the positive and challenge of offering an egg hunt at your Messy Church. In addition, there will be time to explore introducing Messy Church to your larger community through a Messy Easter event. (Recording available March 1-31,2022)
New Date for Live Zoom session: Thursday, March 31 , 2022 at Noon (PDT), 3 pm (EDT)
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There is still time to plan your Escape Room
An escape room, also known as an escape game, puzzle room or exit game, is a game in which a team of players discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks in one or more rooms in order to accomplish a specific goal in a limited amount of time. The puzzles used in this Escape Room are all from the season of Lent, Holy Week and Easter.
This in-person Escape room is designed to be used intergenerationally but especially for readers/ puzzlers and youth. Young readers may need adult assistance getting through the puzzles and making connections. It was not designed to be used virtually.
The escape room should take approximately one hour for a small mix of people working together. If there is a large group, we recommend splitting into smaller groups and running the Escape rooms in different spaces.
Lent Escape Room Session Here
Escape Room Q and A Facebook Recording
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!”
Luke 24:6
We hear the Easter story each year and we may think we know the story well. But do we? Does the Easter story still surprise us? How do you think the women felt when they arrived at Jesus’ tomb and found it empty? Messy Easter is a special opportunity to share the good news of the Risen Jesus! How can we hear this special story and not miss the ways that God surprises us?
Easter Surprise is a complete Messy Church USA session that includes 10 activity ideas with instructions of how to create, a script for your 20-minute celebration and ready to print items you will need.
You will receive three PDF’s; 1) Full session with activities, celebration and meal ideas; 2) Ready to print & DIY activity and take- home flyers and 3) ready to print templates to be used with some of the activities.
We bought it last week and we’re excited to try it out in April. Easter Surprise did all of the planning for us!