Maundy Thursday Service for Children

Parent’s planning on attending the Maundy Thursday service please read this.

On Thursday evening we are having a time we are coming together as a community to worship on the day Jesus and his disciples gathered before Passover. This is a date on the church calendar that we call Maundy Thursday. It is recognized as the time that Jesus showed his friends what he meant when he said, “Love one another” by doing what needed to be done through the act of washing his friends’ feet. It is also the evening before Passover was to be celebrated. The disciples were remembering how God had delivered them from the Egyptians many years before. It was this evening that Jesus served his friends the first communion meal.

This is a more somber service because while Jesus and his friends are eating together there is still the understanding that it was out of that room Judas would leave to betray Jesus.

We are offering child care on Thursday for children Infants – 3rd grade. While the 0 – 3 year olds are to go to the Toddler room, we are having a special Maundy Thursday worship experience for the 4 years – 3rd grade kids. Please prepare your children for this event. Your children will be in the K-1st Sunday School room (3rd room on the left). They will not be in their normal Sunday School rooms. When they walk into the room they will take their shoes off and have their feet washed, they will then sit around the tables and have a “simple” snack together. We will also read a story about the Big God Story. This will be a story about God’s plan to bring us His Rescuer from the beginning of time. While there will be a brief explanation of why we are washing their feet and why we are eating together, it will not be in detail. Please take time this week to explain to your children what Maundy Thursday is all about.

If you have The Jesus Storybook Bible, read The Servant King together.