This year Experience Easter is not just back in Trinity Church, it’s also undergone an exciting redesign.

After offering our online Experience Easter for the last two years using videos created by volunteers, this year we felt it was time to return to live workshops in Trinity Church, but with a new look.

Thanks to feedback from teachers and children who had used our online version we realised just how much they appreciated hearing the Easter story and experiencing the workshops as they’d been laid out online.

So this year, rather than moving through the workshops in small groups, each class stays together and follows through the workshops in order. This has meant that we can leave more of the church looking as it usually would, which is hopefully less disruptive for the congregation and enables children and teachers to really appreciate the beauty and perhaps some of the symbolism of Trinity Church.  

As always, Experience Easter only happens because of the amazing support of our volunteers. This year, more than 30 volunteers have rolled plasticine, threaded beads, put together packs, built tableau, sung songs, led workshops and completed many other tasks to help deliver Experience Easter to around 450 children from eight local schools.

That’s in addition to the 20 or so volunteers who contributed videos to the online version which we have continued to offer this year, and which is particularly popular with the schools further away in the Abingdon Partnership. 

We have received record bookings for Experience Easter this year and would like to thank all at Trinity Church for continuing to support this amazing project.

We’ll share some of the schools’ feedback later in the year.