By Hope 103.2Tuesday 5 Apr 2022EasterReading Time: 4 minutes
This Easter, we want to encourage you to explore ways to renew your connections and unite with the community to share in the love of Jesus’ sacrifice for his world and his people.
We have ways to unite with the community with your local Easter events guide, and devotions to help us focus on why we celebrate Easter and inspire us to love like Christ.
We also have a few giveaways to help you reconnect at work, and with your friends or family.
So continue reading for more information, and check back as we update our Renew, Unite & Love resources.
Renew connection
Connection is an important part of life, especially as we start to experience life together again after lockdowns.
Win a Volkswurst lunch for your workplace
As many workplaces have staff returning to in-person work, knowing how to renew those co-worker connections can be tough to navigate. But spending time together over lunch is one of the classic ways to get the workplace bonding back in business. And, our friends at Volkswurst – The Sausage for the People – want to help! They are giving you a chance to win a delicious catered lunch for your workplace.
Tell us what your workplace has been doing to reconnect after two years of working from home, and you could win!
Win a family pass to Taronga Zoo Sydney
Connect with family and friends this Easter with a day out at Taronga Zoo. We have your chance to win family passes (two adults, two children) in the lead up to Easter. Tune into Hope 103.2 to listen out for the secret sound, and head over to Hope 103.2’s Facebook and Instagram for more opportunities.
All competitions are subject to Hope 103.2’s Ts&Cs
Unite with the community
Easter Community Noticeboard
Check out the Hopeland Easter Community Noticeboard for Easter services and community events near you.
30 Days of Prayer
Be a part of Hopeland’s 30 Days of Prayer. Sign up for a daily SMS or email to join with many others up and down the east coast of Australia as we pray together throughout April. You can also follow along by joining our Daily Devotions & Inspiration by Hope 103.2’s Facebook Group, where a new prayer point is posted at 5am each day.
Other events
Find an event that interests you over at our Community Noticeboard and invite family and friends out for a day of fun and connection.
April events include:
- Renowned NSW Photographer Ken Duncan’s new Exhibit Time to Reflect, launching April 9 at the Ken Duncan Gallery. This family-friendly exhibit provides a chance to wander through some of the glorious hidden places of our natural world, as you take time out to reflect on the bigger picture of life. Designed to leave you feeling uplifted and inspired.
- Australian Heritage Festival is now open in NSW. Offering the opportunity for you to immerse yourselves in the rich and diverse heritage of NSW, this year’s theme is “curiosity” and encourages the community to actively wonder, investigate and learn about natural, cultural, Aboriginal, living and built heritage around the nation. Search Australian Heritage Festival events.
Love like Christ
Acts 4:33 says; “With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all”.
This Easter, we hope you can discover anew the power of Jesus’ love and find ways to bravely share your discoveries with those around you.
Real Hope’s The Road to the Cross devotion
Real Hope: The Road to the Cross – every year, Christians from around the world pause and reflect on the final hours of our Saviour’s life – to take time to be still and sit in the moments of pain, sacrifice, forgiveness and love written for us in the Gospels – so that we can understand the gravity and cost of the gift given to us through Christ.
A Morning Devotions series
The Resurrected Jesus – Part 1 — Morning Devotions – read or listen to Morning Devotions presenter Chris Witts as he asks the question: who is the most influential person in the world?
The Resurrected Jesus – Part 2 — Morning Devotions – continue with Morning Devotions presenter Chris Witts in Part 2 as he talks about the day Jesus rose from the grave – how it is a day that changed the course of history.
Why Easter? resources
To help you better understand the significance and freedom that Easter can bring into your life and those of your loved ones, browse these resources to help answer: “what is Easter? Why do we get the public holidays? What are people remembering? Should we even be celebrating?” and more.