30 Creative Easter Outreach Ideas to Connect Your Church with the Community
10. Easter Parade To Go
Contact a local senior center or assisted living community and asked if your church may bring residents a nostalgic evening of the Irving Berlin classic film, popcorn and lemonade.
11. Messiah Live!
Host an evening of live orchestra presenting Handel’s oratorio. Engage your city’s orchestra.
12. Free Car Wash
Organize a car wash free of charge with no strings attached. Just leave a small Easter card with your church’s Easter worship activities in each vehicle.
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13. Community Humility
Participate in a communitywide Easter service held at a large local venue, like a school stadium. Bring together pastors from various denominations to plan, pray, share ideas and divide the workload and costs.
14. Easter Road Show
Instead of putting all your resources into a large Easter church service, develop a team that can conduct Easter services at locations around your community. Housing projects, senior citizen developments, trailer parks, etc., are good places to start. You’ll hit “low mobility” individuals and families who might never have the chance to visit your church and hear the gospel.
15. Appreciation Easter Lilies
Instead of spending money for Easter lilies to decorate the church, purchase lilies as a donation to local businesses, hospitals, law enforcement, schools, etc. Attach a small sign or tag from your church, “With appreciation during this Easter season.”
16. Resurrection Run.
Hold a Resurrection Run motorcycle rally each year and invite motorcycle enthusiasts from the community to participate.
17. Easter Labyrinth
On Easter, promote a labyrinth experience featuring stations of the cross. Even unbelievers are interested in a spiritual experience that helps them learn about the true significance of Easter.
18. The Empty Egg
Offer a communitywide Easter egg hunt that involves several avenues to share the gospel. From puppet ministry to a worship band, to sharing the parable of the empty egg (representing the empty tomb), you can use this event to introduce the community to Christ and invite them to Easter services.
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19. Appreciation Gift
Offer a free gift like an inexpensive Max Lucado book to the first 50 families who come to your service.
20. Canned Food Donations
Encourage everyone who attends your Easter service to bring canned food for a local food bank. Seeing the church serve others can offer unbelievers a different view of the church and ultimately cause them to be more open to hearing the gospel.
