Can the saddest day turn into the happiest?
Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, washes his friends’ feet at supper, and is arrested. Peter, scared, says three times that he doesn’t know him. Jesus dies on the cross, praying for forgiveness. On Sunday morning Mary Magdalene finds the tomb empty and meets Jesus alive, and later Jesus forgives Peter on the beach.
Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, washes his friends’ feet at supper, and is arrested. Peter, scared, says three times that he doesn’t know him. Jesus dies on the cross, praying for forgiveness. On Sunday morning Mary Magdalene finds the tomb empty and meets Jesus alive, and later Jesus forgives Peter on the beach.
Kids play Peter and Mary Magdalene, make 5 choices, and use all 8 ways of knowing across 4 stops. The cross is told in a few gentle sentences, with no details of the suffering, and calm mode hides its picture. Jesus is never pictured; a sunrise marks him after Easter morning.
Ages 5–12
The simplest honest answer: to show how far God’s love goes, and to open the way back to God. Grown-ups have asked this for two thousand years; it’s fine to say so and keep talking.
The last week of Jesus’ life is in all four Gospels; our story follows John 12–21 and Luke 22–24. Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, shares a last supper with his friends, is arrested, denied by Peter, and crucified. On the third day the tomb is empty. He appears to Mary Magdalene and the disciples, and later cooks breakfast on the beach and forgives Peter three times. Christians call this the center of the whole Bible.