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Student-led "Stations of the Cross" -- An All Church Evening Event

Our Sunday School creates the "stations of the cross" every couple of years during Lent and invites the congregation to walk them. The evenings include soup and bread which participants can enjoy before or after the stations. (If everyone eats at the same time it causes a crowd at the first station.) The event proved so popular we "added" an evening to give our folks a choice. 

There are many different ideas about "how many stations" and "which stories to present" at each station. Because ours are student-led, we have tended to keep the number of stations down to around 6 or 7 (along with the soup and bread station). Each station takes about 5 minutes. Music plays when stations have about 1 minute to finish up and move to the next station.

Along with the usual scripture reading that the students deliver, and a moment of quiet prayer at each station, we strive for visuals/art of the story, something to do, and something people can "take with them" from each station that they can display at home as a Lenten reminder.

For example:

Last Supper = Get your foot washed (or hands if you prefer). Write the name of someone you need to serve kindness and forgiveness to -- writing on a small square of cloth you can take with you.

Gethsemane = Write a promise to God on a river rock and stack it on the pile where others have put theirs. Take a pebble with you.

Arrest and Trial = Add a knot to the group's rope (how we reject Jesus) and take a 4" piece of knotted rope as a remembrance.

Cross = Write a confession nail it on a wooden cross. Tie two nails into a cross using art wire (and special horseshoe nails) to take with you.

Resurrection = Create a card for yourself and family members that "opens" to a "thank you" prayer to God for Christ's resurrection. Eat a creme or jelly-filled donut hole (the unexpected surprising grace of God)

Additional ideas contributed by members of Rotation.org's Editing Team

Last edited by Neil MacQueen
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