FREE resources for Easter outreach

Easter brings with it some unique opportunities for outreach. OK, so there isn’t the pull of Christmas—candlelight, carols and crib—but there are still plenty of people with some residual sense of Christian tradition that think it’s a good thing to show for a Good Friday meditation, or an Easter Day celebration.

And, of course, the events of the first Easter are the very heart of the gospel message we proclaim: the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So we’ve created some terrific FREE resources to help you make the most of your Easter outreach, and add a bit of zing to your Resurrection Day services.

Capturing God

They are all based around our new Easter outreach book for this year, Capturing God by Rico Tice. It poses the intriguing question: “What is the single image that captures the essence of who or what God is?” It’s a short read with a powerful punch that’s designed and priced for giving away in bulk to your Easter visitors. You can download a FREE copy of the e-book to read and assess through our Facebook promotion.

Videos to promote your meetings

We’ve created two unbranded "teaser trailers” with slightly different tones. Both could be adapted and shared via social media to promote your Easter outreach services. Check them out here:

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We’ve also created a short film with answers from well-known figures to the question, “How do you picture God?”:

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There are a number of ways you can use these:

• Get congregation members to share the videos on their own social media feeds—putting something like this in the message box: Come to our Easter Day Celebration at [your church] and discover the surprising answer to this important question.
• Download the videos, and adapt them for your church. You’ll need someone with technical skills to do this, but you could design and add a start and end screen with your church’s service details to one or all of these videos. Then post them on your church’s social media channels, and pay a little bit of money to boost them to your local catchment area. Check out our blog from before Christmas for some pointers on how to do this.
• Use them in your Easter services. Of course, the main Bible-teaching message will be the centre point of your Easter proclamation. But you can use any of the three videos above as conversation starters, sermon illustrations, or discussion points — opening up the question: "How do you picture God?"

The drive for all these videos, and the “big reveal” in the book, is that we only truly see who God is in the person of Jesus Christ. The clearest view we have of God is seen in Christ crucified—where we see the love of God for mankind, and the justice of God in reconciling us to him displayed in perfect, heartbreaking clarity.

Do download, adapt, and use these resources in a way that works for you and your congregation.

And if something works really well—do let us know, so we can share your story with others.

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