Holy Week 2017

Can you believe we have been celebrating Holy Week with this growing Colony since 2009!

Each year has looked a little different.

This year we did quite a bit of journaling.

Actually, journaling has become a regular part of our family devotions over the past couple of years.

Josh will read a scripture and then give them something to journal, 

draw or create to depict what we discuss.

I don't remember exactly what Jude said this was, but I think it is the Lord's supper

Alethia found some "Palm branches" in the backyard for our triumphal entry reenactment

Rainy volunteered to be the donkey for Zeke who was Jesus.
Sometimes it seems silly the older and older they get, but hey, they are still into it, and we always have fun memories,
and it is a visual they don't soon forget, ha!

We read about the Lord's supper and its significance

We dyed Easter eggs while talking about the burial, resurrection, new life and baptism.

Tonight we packaged up the eggs into little baskets with candy
and invite cards to pass out to a neighborhood across the street to invite them to our church Easter service.
This also enabled us to put faces and names together with some new people.
I LOVE to see how excited the kids get to knock on the doors and talk to people.

Foot washing has always been a Holy Week favorite for us.

This photo is one of my favorites because,
I mean, just look at Jude's face,
but also Zeke, our germaphobe, washing the most disgusting pair of feet in the house.
It was a humble sacrifice he volunteered for all on his own.

We had some other things planned but sometimes the best way to remember Holy Week is to carve out time to just Be Still.  And that is exactly what we did this weekend.

"And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilot to have him executed,

and when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree,

and laid him in the tomb, but God raised him from the dead, and he appeared to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people, 

and we bring you the good news, that what God promised to the fathers, 

this he has fulfilled in us, their children, by raising Jesus..."

Acts 13:28-33

Happy Resurrection Day!