At-Home "Video" Version of Following in the Footsteps of Jesus During Lent

@Sharon H --one of our members up in Saskatchewan, sent me a video she had spliced together from a bunch of video clips sent to her by her students re-enacting an assigned part of the Advent story. (Can't show it to you because it's a private link for their congregation.) Sharon's video made me think of doing this same idea for the story of the Cross and Resurrection --assigning parts to families/kids to create video clips using your script.  See my suggestion (below) for the easy online software you can use to stitch your clips together!

You can use the same "video clips" idea for Walking with Jesus During Lent

This could be done as a class project at church or by students at home and shared with your congregation.

The basic idea: Invite students/families to create short narrated video clips (20 seconds) showing "where I walk with Jesus" and then put them together in a shareable presentation.

I walk with Jesus at home when I...

I walk with Jesus at school when I...

I walk with Jesus when I'm with this friend...

We walk with Jesus when we're working on this problem at home together...

We walk with Jesus when we serve others by.... (video of collecting food, clothing, donating)

I walk with Jesus when I'm feeling (sad, sick, alone, scared)...

What other prompts could you come up with? How about inviting the pastor to make a clip of their feet walking into the hospital on a pastoral call. How about a clip of a student opening their storybook Bible as they commit to reading the Bible throughout Lent.

Presentation idea: Think of these are selfie videos-of-a-sort. At the beginning of the clip, each person shows their feet walking, then pans up to their face, who's with them, and then where they are walking as they say the word, "I walk with Jesus when I....."

CANVA is one of the many free online presentation makers you can upload your videos to and stitch them together into a presentation.