Easter Reading

The Saturday after Easter we had an "Easter Reading" for ladies and children from our village. We also invited other Arab friends, so it was a mixed group.

Gathering to sit and listen to a "reading" is normal for our Muslim friends. This wasn't strange at all for them. I had practiced reading Mark 15:42-16:14 in Arabic for a couple of weeks leading up to this event.

Before We sat down for the reading, we colored eggs and gave out Easter Baskets. The children found eggs that we had hidden in the yard! It was such a fun, memorable time!

Here's the invite that a friend helped me to write in Arabic.

Here's a fun picture of the kids dyeing the eggs. It was really fun for them. The mothers and grandmothers even got into dyeing the eggs. It's something new and exciting for them!

These three boys are cousins!

Here's a picture of Faith with her friend Maryam. Maryam is two years younger than Faith, but almost as tall as she is!

The two boys dressed the same are twins. They're in Joseph's class at the preschool.

Here's another picture of the kids counting the eggs that they found in the yard!

Here's a picture of me reading the Easter story from the Arabic Bible. My favorite part of this picture is Faith sitting at my feet...goggles on her head and enjoying a juice.

This picture was posted by one of my friends on Instagram. She was showing all of her friends the gifts that we gave out!

I liked this random picture of the Easter Egg dyeing that another friend posted on Instagram.