Easter often means cute dresses, egg hunts, and bunny crafts. But when your children get older, that changes. It also looks different when you celebrate the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ all the time, not just at what the world has named Easter. Christ’s church celebrates Christ all the time, not just for this one week of the year, and that is what makes Easter so different for us. We spend this time in a special convention with other believers the world over celebrating the work our children have done all year long serving the Lord. This weekend is the Lads to Leaders Annual Convention!
Lads to Leaders is an organization that started some 50 years ago and is dedicated to helping the young men and women of the Lord’s church become his servants, his hands and feet, here on earth. It helps the young men and women find their areas of interest, talent, and growth. Whether it be service, leading songs, reading scripture, teaching, helping, media, or any number of other areas, or all of the areas, the students grow in their abilities to serve. This year, our girls have grown through teaching, serving others, leading songs, reading scripture, studying the Bible for Bible Bowl (Hebrews), studying for the Pearls test (topic: Better Than, actually that’s the whole year’s topic), making power points to be used by teachers, writing blog posts, working on puppet scripts, studying the debate topic (baptism), creating artwork and photos, and so much more. I am certain I have missed some things the girls have worked on. And it is all dedicated to growing in God, knowing God and His will better, and being more dedicated to serving Him.
Here are two of the things the girls did this year – Blog post 1 and Blog post 2. Since I don’t know if they have been finalized in the judging yet, I am not attaching any names to them still. 🙂
Here is post I wrote a while back about what Lads to Leaders is and what the girls worked on that year.
As everyone remembers, last year (2020), Easter looked quite different. Here’s what I wrote about our quarantine Easter.
And here is a recap of our Easter from 2019, complete with Lads to Leaders convention and our own Easter celebration after that.
This weekend, while many are doing egg hunts or have spent the week making palm fronds, we have been and will be focusing on Bible, songs, debate, art work, media presentations, and so much more that directly impacts the Lord’s church. We are blessed to have such a strong church to be a part of and to spend the weekend with so many others who are dedicated to Christ.
Our prayer this week is that you are able to spend your time in something strong and meaningful that strengthens your faith and leads you into a closer relationship with God, through Jesus.
Blessings,
Lori, At Home.
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Tagged: Bible, high school, Lads to Leaders, Middle School
At Home 
it’s good to see beyond the bunnies and eggs isn’t it? and I love that you are part of a strong and vibrant church community.
We are very blessed to have opportunities to help our girls grow in Christ and the Father.
I am grateful for more normalcy this year than in 2020. I hope you have a wonderful convention.
I agree. Some normalcy will be so nice! Thank you for the good wishes.
Lori, what a blessing your daughters must be to others. Such wonderful things they are doing for God and His people. While we are definitely seeing our family this year, our churches are still operating with restrictions. But we are enjoying the time we have to teach our children about Jesus and His sacrifice that gave us Easter.
Thank you. Happy Easter to you and your family.