You're invited to celebrate the best news in the world: Jesus is alive! We'd love for you to join us on Sunday, April 20, for Easter 2025. Learn more below:
Locations
Ankeny Campus
6:26am (Sunrise Service & Breakfast), 8am, 9:30am, 11am
317 SE Magazine Road
Carlisle Campus
10am
Carlisle Middle School (325 Scotch Ridge Rd)
Lamoni Campus
10am
106 S Cedar St, Lamoni
Online
Unable to make it in person? We’ll be streaming our 8, 9:30, and 11am services live from our Ankeny Campus. But we’d love for you to join us for a service!
Passion Week Sermon Series
The Final Week
Seven days. 168 hours. 10,080 minutes.
What occurred in the final week of Christ’s life is remarkable in every way. That span of time involves the past, present, and future, and most assuredly is the apex of human history. Participate with First Family Church this Easter as we dive deeper into the beautiful effects of three days within that week — Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Resurrection Sunday—and experience the full weight of Christ’s final week upon your heart and soul.
FAQs
– Our Campus-Wide Good Friday services will take place at our Ankeny Campus. If you’re in Carlisle or Lamoni, we invite you to join us in Ankeny or watch online!
– Childcare will be available for birth–preschool. No registration is required! Just drop off your kids in the Student Center like usual.
– To help with seating capacity, our ushers will be seating you. Please be flexible in where you sit! Our ushers will do their best to seat you in the smoothest and most efficient way possible.
– The tone of the night will be a somber and reflective one. We’re remembering a death, so please approach the night appropriately, as you would a funeral. It can be helpful to increase your immersion into the evening by wearing funeral-style attire, so feel free to join our staff in doing that if it would be helpful for you. With the somber tone, please enter and exit the building and Worship Center reverently and quietly if possible. Instead of chatting with your neighbor or family once in your seat, consider prayerfully preparing your heart for the evening. There will also be creative elements to help you experience Christ’s sacrifice for you in a greater way.
– If the service fills up, we’ll have overflow seating available in the Youth Room. This will strictly be an overflow space, unlike normal weeks with our Livestream Venue.
– Arrive early!
– Lord willing, we’ll be baptizing at each location! Come ready and excited to celebrate with those believers following in obedience through baptism. Want to be baptized on Easter Sunday? Attend Baptism Class in Ankeny or contact Pastor Travis Walker.
– Kids programming will be available for birth–5th grade like usual at the 8, 9:30, and 11am services. There won’t be any kids programming at the Sunrise Service. With it being Easter and extra services in Ankeny, kids check-in will likely be busier than usual! Please be patient as we seek to get all kids in and out of their rooms in an effective manner.
– There will be a Photo Booth (campus-depending) to grab an Easter photo with your family. Gather up your family or friends and grab a photo in our Photo Booth we’ve put together for Easter!
– To help with seating capacity at our Ankeny Campus, our ushers will be seating you. We expect the 9:30am service to be the busiest service. If you have flexibility in your Easter morning, please consider attending one of the other services to help with seating. If the service fills up, we’ll have overflow seating available in the Youth Room. This will be strictly an overflow space, unlike normal weeks with our Livestream Venue.
– There will be a full breakfast at our 6:26am Ankeny Campus service! This special service will begin right at sunrise and include a breakfast in the Youth Room.
– We will have coffee like usual and some small treats for you to enjoy at the rest of our services. Grab some coffee and goodies before you head into the service.
– Arrive early!