Go Wild This Easter

Wildflower Seeds – lovely little cards to give to others this Easter.

We think we’ve found just the thing to help you and your church members feel confident saying something about Jesus this Easter.

The cards have an introduction to think about Easter and a link to a video that tells more about the Easter story as it relates to wildflower seeds.

You can easily give them to friends, family, neighbours, and others, and encourage your members to do the same.

They are an Easter gift folk can enjoy on a mantel piece or plant outside. They also open an opportunity to talk simply about your faith in Jesus or help someone approach the story of Easter themselves.

Why wildflower seeds?

In the past some Christians would plant wild seeds on Good Friday, the day that remembers Jesus’ death. The cold & hard seeds, seemingly dead, represented Jesus’ death and the soil his burial in a tomb. There was a solemn moment of sadness and a recognition of our own spiritual sorrow and seeming deadness.

Then on Easter Sunday, the day of celebrating Jesus’ resurrection, they would joyfully pick the wildflowers that had grown from last year’s sowing. It represented the remarkable offer of new life a faith in Jesus brings, and how it is accessible to everyone.

These wildflower seed cards might create just the space to wonder with our friends and family, colleagues, and others about Jesus this Easter. Both the sorrow and sadness of life, and the bursting new vibrancy Jesus offers all people everywhere through Easter!

It’s a wonderful and very ordinary way to wonder together what Jesus means as he says ‘I have come to offer you life, and life in all its fullness.’ (Jesus, in John 10:10)