Last Words Art for Holy Week 2023

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Here are the paintings that congregation members created for Holy Week 2023 to describe the Last Words of Christ on the cross. At the bottom is the Easter flower cross the children do every year.

Love on the cross

Jesus' friends

Father-Son

Jesus + plaque

I thirst

collage of black, gray, and brown

It is finished

Christmas star - Good Friday

Easter flower cross
Every Easter Sunday, the children decorate the cross

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