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Easter Stories 2011

Easter Story 1 - The Cross - an affront?

In the week leading up to Easter, and over the Easter period, Newtown Mission placed a large wooden cross out the front of the mission.

Mock police tape cordoned off the area and the words ‘crime scene' were used to draw attention to the cross and the highlighted question Why Did Jesus Die?

Senior Pastor Doug Clements and other volunteers spent time out the front of the church, encouraging interaction and comment from people passing by.People were able to write their thoughts on a blackboard, or post-it notes. While a good number of people stopped to have an initial look, interestingly there was often little desire to talk about faith and life today, probably reflecting the secular and alternate nature of the area, but also the focus on having a fun and extended very long weekend.

Easter Story 2 - A Visual Witness in Tasmania

ACC member Miriam Imms reports that in the Channel area (south of Hobart and opposite Bruny Island), the local churches arranged to keep their lights on during the Easter week from approximately 6pm to 10.30 pm in a chain of churches - Snug, Kettering, Woodbridge Anglican and Woodbridge Uniting- as a witness of light in a holiday atmosphere. The Anglicans placed 3 rough bush crosses on the roadside in front of the Woodbridge church, and on Good Friday draped them with a black cloth, and then on Sunday placed joyous colours which fluttered lively in the breeze. They were left for some time as a further visual witness.

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