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Related Bible reading(s): John 11.1-45

Prepare the space: Dead or alive

Ideas for a focal point with adults and all ages

Display the following items:

  • a pot plant (the larger the better) which is desperate for water and is shrivelling up
  • some withered carrots or potatoes
  • an egg cracked on a saucer some days ago and drying up
  • a meat bone

Beside these items, display a quotation from today’s reading from Ezekiel: ‘I will put my spirit within you and you shall live.’ (Ezekiel 37.14)

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