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Your One-Stop Shop for Everything Easter
Easter is one of our favorite times of the year, and not just because we love chocolate and jelly beans.
Yes, it can be hectic, especially for church leaders, but it’s the start of new life – for believers, for God’s creation, and hopefully for your church as well. And don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with our free Easter resources for churches.
Since we’re committed to helping churches get more visitors … every … single … week – Easter is a prime target for drawing in the multitudes. In many ways, it even trumps Christmas!
We know, you’ve barely emerged from all the Christmas/New Year’s holiday mayhem intact, not to mention the continuing challenges, how can we expect you to even be thinking about Easter when it’s still months away? Quite simply, we don’t – we’ve done the thinking, and more importantly, the hard work, of preparing your communications for Easter!
It’s called The Ultimate Easter Kit, and it’s our gift to you this season.
All you have to do is take what we’ve created, put your church’s name and information in, and you’re done! It’s that simple.
As part of our love for serving churches by creating free church resources for Easter, we’ve amassed a huge amount of Easter-related resources on the Church Fuel site, and we realize it can be overwhelming. This guide is meant to help you quickly navigate those resources so you can focus on ministry instead of communications or marketing.
In addition, we’ve gathered resources from high-quality, trusted partners who have a deep burden to help churches reach out to their communities and make disciples.
We’ve only listed those that are free of charge to churches, so your only commitment is to create a relationship with those providers to copy & implement the resources they offer as well. It’s why we refer to this as your One-Stop Free Easter Resource Guide.
All You Need Resources
Church Fuel Free Easter Kit comes full of everything you need to promote, communicate and reach out to your community during the Easter season. You’ll save weeks of work, look like a genius, and reach TWO TIMES more people on Easter. Our team has done the work for you, so you can focus on preaching the gospel and celebrating more lives changed.
The kit includes planning checklists, churchwide devotional programs, budget templates, artwork – banners, bulletins, templates, sermon outlines, sermon slides & graphics, sermon bumper invite, social media graphics, floor decal graphics, invite cards, door hangers, connect cards, videos, worship backgrounds, selfie video invite scripts, emails, kid’s ministry ideas, and so much more. It also comes complete with guides for easier use, notes, and even follow-up plans so those new visitors on Easter are more likely to come back! There are even teaching/coaching videos for those of you who are visual learners and need a roadmap.
Life.Church Open Network: Share the victory of Jesus’ death and resurrection with your church this Easter. Download graphics, songs, videos, kids lessons, and their resource containing five tips to help you prepare to tackle your Easter services with excellence. https://open.life.church/easter
For Ministry Resources is focused on providing resources for youth ministry and in its Free Easter Basket of Resources offers sermon series, small group series, devotionals, graphics, social media posts, branding packs, and leadership resources. https://forministryresources.com/easter-resource-bundles/
Vous Friends and Family is a growing resource hub created by Vous Church in Miami, Florida. They release quality leadership content and resources created for their in-person and online audience totally free for church leadership. https://www.vousfriendsandfamily.com/
Free Church Graphics for Easter
Ministry Designs offers its library of graphics free to churches, including worship backgrounds, motion backgrounds, stock photos, high-quality sermon series bundles, graphics for your social media posts, church marketing materials or flyers for your church, and much more. Here’s their library of Easter offerings – you’ll need to set up an account to access these resources. https://ministrydesigns.media/
Church Media Drop offers graphic templates and inspiration for messages, as well as Easter specific graphics. https://churchmediadrop.com/?s=easter
Canva offers Graphic Design software free for nonprofits. https://www.canva.com/ and https://www.canva.com/canva-for-nonprofits/
Kids Easter Ministry Resources
Church Fuel Easter Kids Ministry Ideas: Sometimes all you need are a few ideas to bring excitement back to your Children’s Ministry team, and these are all definitely creative.
- How to Create a Virtual Easter Egg Hunt https://churchfuel.com/resource/virtual-easter-egg-hunt/
- Kids Ministry Playbook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LffJFiNyFKUsAXb0DBajYftvJtwfg9kONQ3-9FBqr2Q/edit?usp=sharing
- Kids Ministry Videos https://churchfuel.com/kit/reveal-easter/ – scroll down to Step 4
Children’s Ministry Deals: Free videos, lessons, programs & skits, curriculum, activity sheets, games, and more for Easter. https://www.childrens-ministry-deals.com/collections/10-free-resources-for-easter
Lessons.Church offers free curriculum for churches. https://lessons.church/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAubmPBhCyARIsAJWNpiM5bKWHiiZScbE4t9OgiagGKbVYTO22gmH_epoAJCs0ubOvRnsgEcUaAkcFEALw_wcB
YM360 has a free Easter lesson. https://youthministry360.com/products/free-easter-lesson-easter-encounter
What’s in the Bible has a video explaining what Easter is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ7Dc_w_Tl8
Yancy Ministries offers a kids Easter Worship playlist as well as other resources. https://yancyministries.com/Easter/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAubmPBhCyARIsAJWNpiN3yRwvUr-fUp7RfxcMPhf60cZZ1a93B_GY5tChUVDIo7gz3wAdG44aAtYZEALw_wcB
Ministry to Children has lessons, crafts, printables, songs, and games — all 100% free, as well as open forums discussing Easter challenges. https://ministry-to-children.com/childrens-ministry-links-for-easter/
Ministry Spark offers 12 resources for Easter, including Easter Sunday preschool & elementary lessons, coloring pages, games, crafts & activities, over 40 stories about Jesus that will become your new Easter traditions. Also offer pre-Easter materials for Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday & Good Friday. https://ministryspark.com/free-easter-resources/
“Systems” Resources
We asked our favorite people – Church Pastors & Marketing/Communications folks – for their favorite free Easter resources. Here’s what they offered:
- Project Management/Teamwork Software: Trello. Keeps communication open. Keeps people accountable to tasks. Makes sure tasks are being done. Easy to follow once set up. https://trello.com/en-US
Other Resources
Google Grant offers free advertising to churches and nonprofits. Check to see if you’re eligible here. https://www.google.com/grants/ and https://churchfuel.com/grant-checker/
Church Tech Today offers advice in a number of articles about how you can make the most of the Easter season, covering social media, guest followup, engaging first-time visitors, volunteer coordination, and even the best Easter films. https://www.churchtechtoday.com/?s=Easter
Church Fuel Dive Deeper Into Easter’s Purpose Resources
If you’re passionate about marketing/communications and you have the staff/volunteers to pull it off, dig deeper into the “why” behind the ”what” to learn how to bring your church to the next level, not just for Easter, but all major “Events” you may host.
- Rethinking Easter: From Event to Impact: We’ll walk you through how to make the most of the Ultimate Easter kit at our Workshop every Thursday at 11am Central from now until Easter. We’ll walk you through how the Church Fuel team can build you a Visitor System on Facebook, Instagram, and Google to get you visitors this Easter, but MORE IMPORTANTLY all year long!
- Church Fuel Marketing Tips for Easter (videos https://churchfuel.com/resource/easter-tips-for-churches/
- Church Fuel Marketing Tips for Easter (article) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFI5sJeeRnJWRzsjNmHZ0m1Yo1MbFMUSbTBoGKD5efE/template/preview
Easter only happens once a year and some consider it the Superbowl of church events. Our prayer is that these resources will not only help make it easier for you to prepare your church, but that it will be the beginning of tremendous growth as you reach out and spread the good news of the Gospel.
