If you sponsor a child through Manna 4 Lempira, the deadline to send Easter cards has already passed. I was delayed in posting these blogs, but still wanted to share what I wrote in my Easter cards in case you need ideas for children through other sponsorship organizations, or for future years. Truly, though, this theme can be used at any time of year.
In my Christmas letters, I started a theme of salvation and repentance. Click here to view that post. I continued this theme for Easter, talking about being a true follower of Jesus. Here is the letter I wrote to my older girls (ages 11 and up). My two younger girls got a much simpler version of the message.
Happy Easter (name)!
On Easter, we celebrate the love of God. God loves us so much that he sent His Son, Jesus, to save us from sin so we could be His children and live forever in heaven as children of God. Jesus died to pay for our sins and rose again to defeat them. To become children of God forever, we just need to believe this and turn to Him in repentance.
In the Bible, in Luke 9:23, Jesus says, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.”
This verse tells us to put aside our own ways and sins and turn to following Jesus. Just like Jesus sacrificed for us on the cross, He asks us to sacrifice our own ways and sins and turn to what He has for us. That is what this verse means when it says "take up your cross." We don't need to know everything right away. Just take the first step to follow Jesus and He will show us.
In addition to this handwritten card with a cross design on the front, each girl received some floral cross stickers. Some also received a few extra floral and/or Christian stickers I had saved.
