What does Easter mean to you? Tweeters and Facebook members are being invited to share their feelings about Easter by answering this question on a new Lent twitter feed.
16 February 2010
What does Easter mean to you? Tweeters and Facebook members are being invited to share their feelings about Easter by answering this question on a new Lent twitter feed.
Easter (LIVE) will run throughout Lent, bringing together 140-character reflections from well-known tweeters on Easter.
Alistair Johnson, from Cliff College, and Huw Tyler, from Share Creative, have created the Twitter feed as part of the Biblefresh movement of churches and agencies, which seeks to help Christians gain confidence in and appetite for the scriptures.
Alistair said: "Easter is the pinnacle of the story of Jesus. In it we see the passion God has for His people.
"Easter (LIVE) is an exciting way for people to reflect on the meaning behind the eggs, flowers and other trappings of Easter time."
Huw added: "Easter (LIVE) is about reaching new audiences to explore the Easter story. We're keen to engage with these communities and get deeper through discussion, thought and response.
"We're excited about seeing 'tweets' from well-known contributors to regular users of Twitter and Facebook and finding out what Easter means in a digital world."
Evangelical Alliance General Director Steve Clifford started the tweets off with this tweet: "Looked like a disaster. Hopes gone, dreadful defeat. But it was the watershed of history, amazing victory, death was beaten."
He said: "Easter (LIVE) provides an opportunity to explore what, for Christians, is the pivotal event of history.
"There cannot be a more important question for each of us to ask. If Jesus rose from the dead, what does Easter mean for me?"
You can follow Easter (LIVE) at http://twitter.com/EasterLIVE or on Facebook.
Media Contact:
Charis Gibson
Evangelical Alliance
020 7207 2117
c.gibson@eauk.org
Notes to editors:
Biblefresh is a partnership of over fifty agencies, festivals, colleges and denominations have joined forces to see churches grow their confidence in the scriptures during 2011, coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible.
Share Creative is a creative team which aims to equip projects and ideas with creative resources and a positive platform for communication. Share Creative is part of Share Jesus International (SJI), a Christian charity committed to helping the church engage missionally with the world.
Cliff College is an Evangelical Bible College, located near Sheffield in the Peak District. Cliff offers full time and part time courses in theology and mission at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. All courses are accredited by the University of Manchester.
The Evangelical Alliance, formed in 1846, is the largest body serving evangelical Christians in the UK, and has a membership including denominations, churches, organisations and individuals. The mission of the Evangelical Alliance is to unite evangelicals to present Christ credibly as good news for spiritual and social transformation. According to a Tearfund survey (Churchgoing in the UK, 2007), there are approximately 2 million evangelical Christians in the UK. For more information, go to www.eauk.org.
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