"What is Mission: Impossible?" you say? Well, let me tell you!
Mission: Impossible is an annual Easter presentation in which the Southport and Area Schools Worker Trust, Pais Southport, and the Southport Masters Commission, along with youth workers and volunteers from around the town take over a local church and for two weeks, turn it into secret agent headquarters, to which we invite school children years 5 & 6 to come and investigate the events surrounding Jesus's trial and execution in order to discover for themselves if He actually died and rose again!
Upon entering the building, they go through a security scan, receive a passport, and are placed into teams with squad agents who lead them through the mission, presenting the facts as the kids attempt to uncover the truth about what really happened to Jesus.
They tackle questions like: Did Jesus know what was going to happen to Him and could He have stopped it? Was His trial fair? What was the crucifixion like? Did Jesus really die? Did Jesus come back to life? The kids re-enact the events that took place in the Garden of Gethsemane. They view a film about His encounters with the High Priest, Herod and Pilate. They watch a holographic reconstruction of an eye-witness's account of what happened when He died. And they talk with a doctor about what His body went through on the cross.
Their mission in all this: to discover what is true and what is false about the Easter events and thereby come to their own conclusion about if Jesus really died and if He really came back to life.
Here are some pictures!
The first thing the kids have to do is get through security. Don't they look intimidating? ;)
Squad Agents awaiting their teams
Agent T (True) and Agent F (False) explaining the mission to the kids.
The Garden zone
The doctor's surgery
We are half-way through Mission: Impossible at this point and it has been so exciting! Taking school kids through this presentation is encouraging and enjoyable and they really like it. We have had a great time presenting the truth about what really happened to this real man called Jesus and what Easter is truly about!
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