The Story of Joseph – Easter 2025

It´s that time of year again – Easter kids club!

For the third straight year, we organized a kids club during the second week of Easter break, but this time we made a few changes. Previous kids clubs were held at the local sports court which had the benefit of being more public, but also a lot more work for us to transport everything we needed for each day. This time we decided to hold the kids club “on-site” at our new church building. This proved beneficial on several levels, especially when considering that the sports court we´ve used in the past was unavailable (which is probably a blog post in itself).

We made a few other changes, such as requiring people to sign up, so we weren´t quite sure how it would all work out. But, as has been a theme in all of the kids clubs we´ve done, not everything went perfectly, but God provided and blessed us with a wonderful week.

One of the blessings of organizing the kids club is that we can´t do everything ourselves – we need volunteers. Sometimes that can be a bit stressful – worrying if enough volunteers will show up – but it is a joy to see many Christians from different churches and countries coming together to serve. We had people from Colorado, Mexico City, Colombia, Querétaro, and, of course, Canada. Volunteers greeted, led games, provided and served snacks, helped with crafts, gave a bible lesson, cleaned, and spoke with the parents of the kids.

Another blessing was to work our way through the story of Joseph, especially when so many of the kids and parents didn´t know the story at all. As you know, the story of Joseph builds up to a crescendo when Joseph reveals himself to his brothers and forgives them. That is a powerful point in the story. As you also may know, Joseph´s story prefigures Christ in so many ways, and we were able to highlight a few of those ways for the kids, teaching them to see Christ in the Old Testament.

Many of the kids who came have attended previous kids clubs or other events we´ve done, but we also had a few new kids. We pray that God´s Spirit would work in the hearts of both the kids and their parents. Some kids come from Christian homes, some from Catholic homes, and some from very broken homes. They all need Christ – just as much as we do. This is what motivates us to keep doing kids clubs. It requires a lot of preparation and is a busy week, but it is worth it.