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Easter events can provide us with connection, building community, and celebration. As the season of spring arrives and Easter approaches, small churches have a unique opportunity to connect, grow, and share the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection. Whether your church has just completed a season of Lent and sacrifice or is eagerly awaiting the joy of Easter, now is the perfect time to plan a variety of engaging events for your women’s group.
Below, we’ll explore several Easter event ideas for women’s ministry that cater to a mix of outreach, service, fun fellowship, and spiritual reflection, making this Easter season memorable and meaningful for everyone involved.
Why Should You Plan A Women’s Ministry Event This Easter Season?
You might be wondering, “Why should we invest time and energy into planning a women’s ministry event for Easter?” Well, it’s simple: Easter is one of the most significant celebrations of the Christian faith, and it’s also a great way to reach those who are not part of your church. We all know that statistics tell us, there are two key times during the year when unchurched individuals are most likely to consider attending a church event—Christmas and Easter. This makes the Easter season a powerful chance to open the doors of your small church to newcomers, build relationships, and share the Gospel in a welcoming, non-threatening environment.
Hosting a women’s ministry event during this season provides the perfect setting to invite family, friends, neighbors, and even co-workers. Your group can create an environment where guests feel comfortable, valued, and supported as they explore faith in a new way. It’s an excellent opportunity to connect with others, share the joy of the season, and begin building relationships that can last well beyond Easter. It’s the Ministry Funnel concept at its finest!
So check out these ideas and see which ones fit the needs of your small church Women’s group.
6 Best Easter Event Ideas For Women’s Ministry
1. Easter Garden Centerpiece – Craft Night
Organize a fun night of crafting where women can create an Easter Garden centerpiece to add to their spring decor or give as a gift. A crafting event provides a space for women to chat, build friendships around the tables, and get creative together. This class is fun for women of all ages making it an ideal intergenerational outing! This event is best hosted 2-3 weeks before Easter to give plenty of display time.
Materials Needed:
For each participant you will need:
- a 12-inch round plant dish-terra cotta color (can be plastic, which is much more economical)
- 1-6 inch round terra cotta colored pot (plastic or clay)
- Potting soil (approx. 3 cups ) per person
- Sheet moss
- Small stones & pebbles or flat-backed decorative glass marbles
- 1 large flat stone approximately 4 inches across
- Sticks, wood dowels, or large craft sticks to form 3 crosses per participant
(or you could ask them to bring their own or purchase them pre-made) - *if desired you can add in small succulent plants or mini ivy-ask participants to bring their own*
Tools needed:
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- Basin with water or sink
- Jute string to wrap the cross
- Plastic spoons to move dirt and stones around
If you search online there are many pictures and instructions for making these centerpieces. Give the basic design steps to the class and then let participants get creative with how they finish them off. Make sure to have a sample made so the class can reference it.
Instructions:
First, use the hot glue to attach the small pot inside the saucer. Position the pot to one side of the saucer, with the open end pointing to the center. Take your potting soil and cover the base of the saucer and over the top of the back of the small pot. Add more soil if you need to fill in. Put a small amount of soil spilling out of the open mouth of the small pot, enough to cover the lip edge. Reconstitute the sheet moss by soaking it in water for 10 minutes.
After it’s soaked, break it apart and squeeze excess moisture out. Place the moss around your saucer giving the appearance of grass. Leave exposed areas of dirt where you may want to put stones for a path or decoration. If you decide to plant small succulents, simply cut the sheet moss and make a hole to insert the plant.
Position the 3 crosses near the pot as the open edge of the pot represents the mouth of the tomb.
Place your large flat stone on the edge of the tomb opening. Decorate your centerpiece as desired. It would be nice to have a tray of various materials your guests could use.
Don’t forget to take pictures of all the designers and their creations!
2. Service Project For A Senior Living Center – Rolled Stone Snacks
This project is a great way for your women’s group to share the love of Jesus with people in your community. A Senior Living facility or Adult Day Care would love to have guests come in and share a project like this one. It’s easy to make, delicious to eat, and provides the opportunity for connection and caring of seniors in our community.
Materials Needed:
For each participant you will need-
- Double piece of graham cracker
- A plastic knife
- A disposable dessert plate (6-8 inch size)
- A small paper cup with white icing (a canned store variety would be fine)
- A condiment cup filled with green dyed coconut flakes (to tint the coconut, place in zip lock bag with 3 drops of green food coloring. Thoroughly shake and squeeze, until fully colored)
- A few assorted jelly beans for each person (some for eating, some for decorating!)
Chocolate-covered donuts from the grocery store baked goods section (a brand like Entenmann’s works well) Cut each donut in half. Participants will each need half a donut. - 1 chocolate sandwich-type cookie for each participant
- Pre-made signs (you can print them from a computer) saying ‘‘He is Risen!’, and place them on a wood skewer cut down to 3.5 inches.
Instructions:
Distribute the dessert plates to each participant, then have everyone put the icing on the bottom of the graham cracker. Place the green coconut on top of the icing to simulate grass. Place a small amount of icing on the cut, bottom side of the donut, and place the donut on the grass of the graham cracker.
The donut represents the tomb opening. Now take the sandwich cookie, put a small amount of frosting on the bottom of it, and ‘glue’ it down to the side and front of the Tomb. This represents the stone that was rolled away. Decorate the ‘grass’ with the jelly beans. Place the sign in the donut and your snack and craft is complete, just eat and enjoy!
As participants are enjoying their creations, have one of your women share the Easter story of Mary Magdalene and Mary discovering that the tomb was empty and the stone was rolled away. Share the truth that Jesus defeated death! Emphasize how much Jesus loved them in order to be willing to die on that cross for them and how He lives today and loves us still as He reigns in heaven!
3. Community Service & Outreach – Blood Drive
Many communities are anxious and very appreciative to find groups and organizations that are willing to host a blood drive. If you think about it, what better time to do this than Easter? Blood, the ultimate life-giver. Jesus shed His blood on the cross to give us all new life in Him!
Advertise the blood drive to get your community involved. Get your women’s ministry to prepare thank you bags to give away, a great way to give the Gospel message to participants.
Here’s a list of possible items you can put in the bags:
- A bag of hard candies (helps to restore blood sugar levels)
- A small bottle of juice
- A couple of band-aids for later
- A mini bottle of hand sanitizer
- A protein bar or granola bar (something to give protein)
- A booklet or Gospel tract about the message of Easter
- An invitation to your small church Easter events
This is definitely an ‘out-of-the-box- kind of outreach event, but it is one that is both beneficial to your community and encourages your women’s group to share God’s love in your community.
4. Host A Community Springtime Class
This type of event can attract newcomers and provide a casual, easygoing atmosphere for women to connect with each other. It is also a great way to demonstrate to your community that your church desires to serve them by offering fun events that engage people.
Deciding on what kind of class to host will depend on your local area, the connections you have for teachers and experts in certain areas. Types of classes you could host are things like bread making or a hot cross bun class for a traditional Easter treat! What about a chocolate-making class. Learn how to make your own filled eggs!
Contact a local bakery or sweets shop and see if they have someone who could teach or perhaps a community college or tech school with a culinary course. Another option could be to make your own Easter basket, whether it be someone actually teaching how to weave a basket or creating a paper basket from decorative papers, the possibilities are endless!
Whatever class you decide on, make sure to have a warm and inviting atmosphere. Snacks, drinks, and goodies are all great ways to welcome guests. Make the evening fun and engaging. Give away a gift basket and ask for emails when they enter so that you can have a follow-up contact. Use that contact to send them a nice thank you for coming. A party favor take-home bag is always a treat, including an invitation to another point of contact with your women’s group. Above all else, smile, be friendly, ask questions, listen, and engage with your guests!
5. Come To Breakfast With Jesus
This event is based on the passage of scripture in John 21. Jesus has been resurrected and has not yet returned to heaven. He has some unfinished business He needs to take care of. First, Jesus helps the disciples to miraculously catch some fish, but then He invites them to breakfast with Him. A time to relax, refresh, and reconnect with each other. A casual, meaningful time of conversation over food.
But after food, after breakfast, Jesus singles out Peter, the bold disciple who promised never to leave Jesus’ side, the now sad and ashamed disciple, who denied Jesus not once, not twice, but three times, just as His Master had told him he would.
But Jesus goes through a process with Peter, a beautiful conversational dance of restoration, renewal, and refreshing as He forgives Him and invites Him to be His special servant, not once, not twice, but yes, you’re right, three times. A complete picture of love!
This is the foundation of this event, a comfortable, inviting place of fellowship around the table, followed by a time in the Word, with a devotional on this passage and a time of renewing for all of the women in your ministry.
You can decorate as elaborately or as simply as you like. Jesus had fish on an open fire on the beach. If you have the ability to invite the women in your group to a beach picnic breakfast, how incredible would that be!
Location is where it’s most convenient for you, weather and other factors will help you decide as you plan this event.
Tip: This event happened after the resurrection, so plan this event a week or so after Easter.
If you want to go with a ‘spring’ theme you could decorate in pastels and use springtime plants and flowers in pots or baskets to decorate your tables. Or if you want to stick with an ‘at the beach’ theme but have to hold your breakfast inside, use some stones to make a mini fire ring in a mound of sand as a centerpiece. Scatter some small stones and shells around the table, and use some fish netting as accent pieces. Have fun with it!
Materials Needed:
- A planning team
- A date
- A menu
- A decorating team
- Color scheme and paper goods
- Invite someone to do the devotional from John 21, perhaps a pastor’s wife or a small group leader!
This event is focused on a deeper connection with the women in your group but also on their spiritual development as they spend time focusing on Jesus’ incredible act of love, patience, and how He has plans for each one of us!
6. Night Of Easter Engagement
This event also focuses on spiritual development and growth during the Easter season. This provides the women of your small church the opportunity to stop, reflect, and ponder the incredible events of Easter. They will participate in a rotation of simple engagement activities that will promote a deeper connection to the Lord during this special season.
Materials Needed:
You will be setting up different ‘stations of engagement’ all over your church building. There will be 5 suggested activities here, so you can break up your group into pairs or small teams and all will be traveling to different stations at the same time.
Station 1: A Mother’s Heart
Print out the scripture passage John 19:23-25 and place it in a frame or post it on the wall so that it can be easily read. Also, print and post this list of questions on the table top, in a nice frame if possible.
List of questions:
- What thoughts do you think were going through Mary’s mind at this point?
- How do you think she felt about Jesus telling John to be responsible and take care of her?
- Write what you think/ would be one last thing that Mary would want to say to Jesus before He died.
The Set Up:
On a small table have a few Bibles, some pens, or decorative markers. Place a basket of white and pink cut paper hearts (approx. 4-5 inches across). Put a hole punch in the top of the hearts and tie a loop of ribbon at the top so that they can be hung.
Have something to display the completed hearts on, i.e., a small branched tree, a clothesline type set up, or even a small Christmas tree with white lights.
Have some soft music playing in the background if possible-have tissues on the table as some people may get emotional.
Instructions For Participants:
Enter the room quietly. Read the scripture passage then have a time of quiet pondering and reflection. Place yourself in Mary’s situation. Then, take a paper heart and answer one or more of the questions on the table. After you are done, display your heart (describe where to put it on the wall, attach it to a clothesline, or place it onto a tree, etc.). Move on to the next engagement station.
Station 2: He Is The Light, We Are His Light!
Print the following scripture passages on page and display them in the room: John 8:12 and
Matthew 5:14-16.
Place the materials out on the table with written instructions on how to make a simple beeswax candle.
Materials Needed:
- Beeswax sheets
- A length or a spool of wick (avg. size #2)
- Craft Scissors
- Hair dryer
Instructions For Candle Making:
- Lay out your beeswax sheet. Measure out 12 inches and cut off the excess. Save in a basket for other projects.
- Lay your wick at one end of the wax sheet. Try to keep it as straight as you can. You can push it into the wax a little to keep it in place if you like.
- Roll the wax a few times over the wick so it’s securely in place in the middle. Keep rolling the wax sheet up tightly until you reach the end of the wax.
- Once the candle is rolled, it won’t exactly adhere to the other side. It may begin to unravel a little. Set the blow dryer on medium heat and gently run it across the length of the candle. Then as it is warm and pliable, press it down onto itself so that it will stay in place. It’s complete.
- Print the following on a sheet, cut out, and have each participant take one with their candle.
- Card: “Jesus brought Light into this world, He has given us His light to continue on with the mission of sharing the Truth of His message to others. May I remember that I am Jesus’ light in my community, as I light and burn this candle.”
Station 3: Last Supper Moments
This station will provide participants with a chance to discuss the moment of the Last Supper. They will also be making a decoupage plate that they can take home and use to remind them to think of these symbols that Jesus gave us to remember to thank Him for all that He did for us.
Room Setup:
Print out the scripture passage Matthew 26:17-30 and put it on the wall.
Print out the following discussion questions and place them on the table:
- How do you think Jesus’ disciples were feeling at this moment? So you think they understood what was happening?
- Discuss why you think God chose the bread and the wine to represent Jesus’ life.
- What last words would you leave to the people who would be taking over your life work, as Jesus was?
Set up a small table with a pitcher, a loaf of bread (broken), some fruit, a wine glass, and a candle (for safety put the candle inside a protective glass).
Set up the craft table with materials laid out for participants. Print out the instructions and have them posted on the wall or on the table.
Materials Needed:
- 2-clear plastic plates per person
- 1 decorative Easter napkin
- 1 foam brush per person
- Container of decoupage glue
- Small disposable bowl to pour glue into
- Scissors
- Painters tape
Instructions:
- Cut the napkin to fit the inside ring of the disposable plate.
- Separate the layers of the napkin, use only the printed layer.
- Spread glue on the face side of one plate, center area only.
- Gently place the napkin down in the glue, and carefully spread another layer of glue over the top of the napkin. Make sure all areas are soaked in the glue.
- Once the glue is on, place the other disposable plate on top of the decoupaged one. Use the painter’s tape to hold the 2 together firmly.
- Write your name on the painter’s tape and leave the plate in the room to dry (will take overnight).
Participants will be encouraged to have discussions about the questions as they are crafting around the tables!
Station 4: The Cross Of Christ
Materials Needed:
- Printable adult coloring sheets of the cross
- Assorted colored pencils/markers
- Cut squares of paper (3 in. by 3 in.) to leave on the table
- A dispenser of tape
- A table-top size cross (homemade or store-bought) to put in the center of the table or hang on the wall
Print out the following passage to display in the room: Mark 15:6-26.
Print the following list of ‘Pondering’ Questions and place on the table:
- How would you have felt as one of Jesus’ followers being in the crowd and hearing the angry chants of ‘Crucify Him’?
- Jesus was so badly beaten that He could not physically carry the cross, Simon was forced to carry it. What images and thoughts come to your mind when you read these words?
- It has been said that the cross is both the ugliest symbol and the most beautiful symbol of the world. Why do you think it can be described in both ways?
Participants will be instructed to color their sheets while talking about the discussion questions, journaling on their pages if they desire. Have each one take 1 or 2 squares of paper and write a thought or prayer about the ‘cross’ and what it stands for them personally-then tape the square to the cross. Take the color page home as a reminder.
Station 5: Stones Of Remembrance
Several times in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, God’s people are instructed to make some sort of stone or altar of remembrance, a place where they could pass and their children would ask what it meant, giving them the opportunity to tell of the goodness and faithfulness of God. It was a chance to remember who He was in their lives. By assembling these stones onto a circle, participants can write the names of God and praise around the outside edge, reminding them of who God is in their lives!
Materials Needed:
- 5-inch cake board circles
- Variety of stones, large and small, in baskets on the table (craft stores will have these)
- Hot glue guns and hot glue sticks
- Variety of colors of permanent markers
Print out the passage: Joshua 4:1-7 and post it on the wall.
Print out a sheet and post on the wall a list with the names of Jesus on it (do an online search)
Instructions To Participants:
Read the passage on the wall then make your own ‘stones of remembrance’ on a cardboard circle.
Take the markers and write a circle of reminders of ‘who Jesus is’ around the outside edge of your cardboard circle. Use whatever colors you wish.
Then simply glue a variety of stones (1-6) in the center of your circle, stacking them as you desire.
Take this home as a reminder to you to talk with others about the impact Jesus has had in your life and to thank Him at all times!
After all the teams have traveled through all the engagement stations, come together for a time of refreshments and reflection on the experience.
New Ideas To Work Together With People Of All Ages
Here are some tips for you to get people of all ages involved in your Easter events and activities:
- Personal Invitations always mean more. Make sure that the women of your group are inviting and speaking to women both young and old to welcome them to participate in your event.
- Try and use women from different ‘decades’ to help on the planning team. Getting different perspectives on what is fun and what is not can be enlightening!
- If you are hosting an outreach that incorporates new people, try using fun icebreakers to help make connections and put people at ease.
- Be the example, if you are a women’s ministry leader, nothing speaks louder to your group than seeing you lead by including women of all ages and seeing them valued and appreciated by leadership.
Seize The Opportunities This Easter!
Sounds like there’s a lot of exciting things on the horizon and all kinds of possibilities for your small church women’s group this Easter! We pray that you will see connections, deeper community, great outreach to unchurched family and friends, and a time of great spiritual renewal! He is risen. He is risen indeed, Hallelujah!
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