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Lenten List

Lent is like a journey to Easter. Each day during the 40-day Lent period, we are getting ready for Easter by praying, reading the Bible, and thinking about how God wants us to live.

Here's a list of 30 things you can do to observe Lent. Your job is to come up with 10 more ideas to make the list complete. Email your best ideas to the Diocese at info@armenianchurch.net.

Look here in future weeks to see some of the very best ideas that come from other Armenian Youth across the Diocese.

  1. Make a list of people to pray for.
  2. Today, watch one less TV show than usual and read a good story instead.
  3. Do a secret favor for someone.
  4. Write a special mealtime prayer and pray it tonight with your family at dinner.
  5. Use your prayer list tonight when you pray.
  6. List five ways to help the poor during Lent.
  7. You are God's beloved child! Give special thanks to him.
  8. Walk with Jesus each day.
  9. Today, don't watch TV at all.
  10. List one thing you can do for your family today.
  11. List one thing you can do for a friend today.
  12. Skip your snack today and give the money from it to a food bank.
  13. Give someone who needs it your most special smile today.
  14. Write a poem about God's love.
  15. Do a kindness for someone hard to like.
  16. Ask Jesus to help you always tell the truth.
  17. Unscramble: SEJUS VIESL NI EM!
  18. Write a letter from Jesus to you. Keep it in a safe place.
  19. Draw a picture of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey as he did on Palm Sunday.
  20. Do something special for your teacher.
  21. Say this prayer: Jesus, stay always in my heart.
  22. Draw a picture of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.
  23. Unscramble: SUJES SI ROU NOLY VASIOR.
  24. Do something for your neighbor today.
  25. Name ways you can come closer to Jesus.
  26. Read the story of Jesus' Last Supper in your Bible--Mark 12:12-22.
  27. Draw a picture of the Last Supper.
  28. Perform a good deed today and don't tell anyone about it.
  29. Say a special prayer for your Sunday School teacher.
  30. Jesus is God's beloved Son. I will listen to him.

Here are some other activities for Lent:

Download these children's activity sheets for Lent:

Mask for Poon Pergentan (109 K PDF file)

Fortune Bread for Media Day of Lent—Michink (105 K PDF file)

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