Easter Dawn Service A

There is an 2023 updated version of this post with more stuff - see archive at left.

Bible readings: Acts 10:34-43 or Jeremiah 31:1-6,Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24, Colossians 3:1-4 or Acts 10:34-43, John 20:1-18 or Matthew 28:1-10

About the images:
Above left:
This is the little suburban lake we use for our dawn service. This is my photo and permission is given for it to be used for worship and related activities.
Above right:
This is the brake drum fire we use to cook the bread on at our dawn service.  It leaves no mess in a suburban park. This is my photo and permission is given for it to be used for worship and related activities.

Middle Left: Making bread, cooking fish.

Middle Right: Another excellent free image form Church Galleries - see my link column at left.  This site is one of the few I gladly subscribe to; however, the site is down at present.

Lower Left:  The Sea of Galilee: this is my image so please feel free to use it for worship and related activities.   

Once again we will be cooking fish and middle eastern flat bread over an open fire beside a small lake at some unearthly hour of the morning. But it is something that is too beautiful not to experience. And you don't need a lake or a beach - any bit of water will do :)

Covid19 Update: Well, we won't be doing the above after all but why not do this in your own backyard if you have one or on a barbeque or even on the stove in a kitchen with a nice lake photo somewhere nearby.  Use my photo of the sea of Galilee above if you want to. 

Poem/Meditation: I'd had Enough
By Ruth Burgess in Dandelions and Thistles: Biblical Meditations from the Iona Community by Jan Sutch Pickard (ed.) Wild Goose Publications, 1999, ISBN 1901557146, page 79 (pictured at left).

Taize Service: Breakfast With Jesus

Found in Worship Feast: 20 Great Services in the Spirit of Taize, Abingdon Press, 2004, page 28