08/04/2026
Children and Families Festival on Easter Saturday 2026
A BIG thank you to Launceston Alive, TeenChallenge, and especially iSee Church but also to all the other churches and the 150 volunteers and helpers for working alongside SU Australia and making this fabulous festival happening!
This year, there were about 40 different churches and Christian organisations – such as the Good News Club, City Mission, Gideons, God Squat, PCYC, and Fostering Hope - coming together bringing a thrilling and engaging potpourri of activities and food offerings together. Between five different sausage sizzles about 5,000 free sausages were given away, 1,000 pancakes, 700 sticks of fairy floss, 500 serves of African lamb, 700 Sudanese dumplings, and 300 serves of Nepalese fried rice besides endless ice cream cones and tea and coffee.
The activities included all-in games run from the stage, a TAS Ambulance vehicle that kids were invited to explore, a TAS Fire Service fire engine that was also open for curious little guests to explore, remote control race cars, various face painters and balloon sculpturers with never ending cues, a flower crown weaving stall with fresh flowers, giant bubble blowing, a card board box design building booth, parachute games, many art and craft stalls that used the gospel as a starting point to create bracelets and artworks. There were basketball and soccer games and an empty tomb with a giant stone rolled away at the door of the tent.
One of the Northern Tasmanian artists came prepared with 55 original paintings of beautiful landscapes with encouraging Bible verses on them and these paintings primarily blessed people who had never read the Bible before – their happy faces were incredible.
At a LEGO stall and three teenagers decided to build the Last Supper and the Crucifixion out of LEGO – which definitely got people asking questions, wanting to find out more, and getting really engaged!
