Easter in Portugal will be very low key this year for our family.  Here are a few things we will be missing this year for Easter.

We won’t be going to a 6am sunrise service and eating Easter brunch.
There won’t be trumpets and choirs in church.
There won’t be huge bouquets of flowers and banners in the [...]

During the Easter season, there is a much greater percentage of people who are willing to come to a church event on this Sunday than any other in our community, so we operate with the urgent understanding that this is an opportunity we must make full use of.
Easter morning at Cross of Life always begins [...]

Easter in Brazil is a big celebration with most, if not all, businesses being closed for the day.  Many people go to church and then spend the rest of the day with family, just as a lot of people in the United States do.  One big difference though is that instead of ham for the [...]

Its springtime or so I have been told. Here in Toronto the flurries still fly.   We ship in palm branches for Palm Sunday from some warmer climate and if there were any such thing as an Easter bunny, the eggs he hides would be covered in a layer of frost. Yet the cold outside does [...]

I never would have believed that our Good Friday services would become an “outreach” event.  However, in Canada, Good Friday seems to be taken serious by many who don’t always take going to church very seriously.  Very few churches do anything worthwhile for Good Friday around here, so we have been getting more and more [...]