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A One-Hour Worship Service Celebrating Resurrection & Spring Across Faith Traditions
Celebrate Easter Sunday with a worship service that proclaims the Christian story of resurrection while making space to learn from the spring traditions of our neighbors.
This complete, 60-minute leader-ready Easter service explores the many ways people welcome spring, renewal, liberation, joy, returning light, and new life. The service encounters Jewish Passover, Persian and Bahá’í Naw-Rúz, Hindu Holi, Pagan/Earth-centered Spring Equinox traditions, and Christian Easter while honoring the important differences between them.
Rather than suggesting that every tradition tells the same story, this resource helps congregations listen respectfully to our neighbors before returning to the Easter garden and Mary’s unexpected encounter with the risen Jesus.
Included in the download:
• Complete 60-minute order of worship
• Leader-ready prayers and congregational responses
• Passover/Pesach reflection and leader background
• Persian and Bahá’í Naw-Rúz reflection
• Hindu Holi reflection
• Pagan/Earth-centered Spring Equinox/Ostara introduction
• Participatory Four Directions ritual using Air, Fire, Water & Earth
• Easter Gospel transition and reading guidance for John 20:1–18
• Traditional/public-domain music suggestions
• Full sermon notes for “The World Begins Again”
• Participatory seed ritual for practicing resurrection
• Prayers for new life and justice
• Easter closing blessing
• Leader notes for respectfully presenting traditions outside Christianity
• Music and copyright guidance
• One-page quick worship-team order
The sermon moves from Mary mistaking Jesus for the gardener to a larger question for Easter:
What if resurrection is something we are called not only to believe, but to practice?
Plant something. Feed somebody. Protect something vulnerable. Participate in liberation. Tend the Earth. Make room at the table.
The garden is growing. The stone has moved. Morning has come. The world can begin again.
Designed in Easter purple and lavender with a clean white, print-friendly layout and 12-point body text for easy reading and economical printing.
Digital download. No physical product will be shipped.
A One-Hour Worship Service Celebrating Resurrection & Spring Across Faith Traditions
Celebrate Easter Sunday with a worship service that proclaims the Christian story of resurrection while making space to learn from the spring traditions of our neighbors.
This complete, 60-minute leader-ready Easter service explores the many ways people welcome spring, renewal, liberation, joy, returning light, and new life. The service encounters Jewish Passover, Persian and Bahá’í Naw-Rúz, Hindu Holi, Pagan/Earth-centered Spring Equinox traditions, and Christian Easter while honoring the important differences between them.
Rather than suggesting that every tradition tells the same story, this resource helps congregations listen respectfully to our neighbors before returning to the Easter garden and Mary’s unexpected encounter with the risen Jesus.
Included in the download:
• Complete 60-minute order of worship
• Leader-ready prayers and congregational responses
• Passover/Pesach reflection and leader background
• Persian and Bahá’í Naw-Rúz reflection
• Hindu Holi reflection
• Pagan/Earth-centered Spring Equinox/Ostara introduction
• Participatory Four Directions ritual using Air, Fire, Water & Earth
• Easter Gospel transition and reading guidance for John 20:1–18
• Traditional/public-domain music suggestions
• Full sermon notes for “The World Begins Again”
• Participatory seed ritual for practicing resurrection
• Prayers for new life and justice
• Easter closing blessing
• Leader notes for respectfully presenting traditions outside Christianity
• Music and copyright guidance
• One-page quick worship-team order
The sermon moves from Mary mistaking Jesus for the gardener to a larger question for Easter:
What if resurrection is something we are called not only to believe, but to practice?
Plant something. Feed somebody. Protect something vulnerable. Participate in liberation. Tend the Earth. Make room at the table.
The garden is growing. The stone has moved. Morning has come. The world can begin again.
Designed in Easter purple and lavender with a clean white, print-friendly layout and 12-point body text for easy reading and economical printing.
Digital download. No physical product will be shipped.