Experience Easter with Matson Churches Together

The Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches in Matson got together during Holy Week to offer children of Moat, Robinswood, and Finlay Schools the opportunity to walk, talk, and think their way through the story of Easter.

Experience Easter events took place throughout the diocese in the run up to Easter amidst much publicity and a great deal of work and prayer.

The Matson event was held at the Church of St Augustine of Canterbury - opposite the Musket - which gave beautiful surrounds to the creative displays of the key events in the Holy Week story.

Children of different ages and abilities reflected on the hopes, dreams, fears, pain, and joy of Jesus and his followers as they thought about their own hopes, dreams, fears, pain, and joy.

Many children thought about their own hopes and fears for their own communities too and took with them a new energy for changing and creating a new and better world. This too is a resurrection story.

Each of the schools has a strong and ongoing working friendship with the churches involved which is part of what made the day possible. Finlay School is also served by the Red Wedge through an Open the Book Group drawn from several Anglican Churches in the area.