Journey to the Cross

Come experience a meaningful in-person event to prepare your heart for Easter. A time for reflection and gratitude for all Christ endured for us. Plan for 30 minutes to an hour for the full experience. Children are encouraged to come though need to be with a parent at all times. Please reserve a ticket for any attending over the age of 12.

Wednesday, April 1st - 10am to 8pm (last entry at 7pm)

Thursday, April 2nd - 10am to 8pm (last entry at 7pm)

Friday, April 3rd - 9am to 12pm (last entry at 11am)

For additional Easter activities at Capital City Baptist Church, go to: Capital City Baptist Church - Elk Grove, CA - Resurrection Day 2026 Events

Scheduled for April 1-3, during Holy Week, this is a time for us to STOP and spend time alone with our Savior. To journey with him through his last days, his ministry as teacher, his life as master, Savior and friend, showing us how to love one another, yes, even our enemies, modeling for us how to truly forgive one another.

We will walk with him through his betrayal by Judas, and the high priests (Annas and Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin). And we’ll journey through his trials with Pontius Pilate and King Herod of Judea and watch helplessly as his own disciples abandon him, fleeing out of fear for their very lives. Even as they flee, he loves and forgives them.

We will see and touch the flogging whip and feel the nails that tore at his flesh as he endured each lash.

We stand by as Roman soldiers drive the nails through his hands and his feet, not for His sin, but for ours. We hear his cries from the cross, not curses, not condemnation, but cries born out of his great love for sinners like us, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

We feel the earth begin to shake, and see the skies turn dark, when he says, “It is finished” and “Father into Thy hands I commit my Spirit” and we watch helplessly as he dies.

We watch as Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lovingly lay our Lord in the tomb, not even his own tomb, but a borrowed tomb. And our hope diminishes.

Then came Sunday morning! We are there, but the tomb is empty. And then we hear the voice of an angel. “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here! He has risen!!! Just as he said he would.”

During the last days between Jesus’ resurrection and ascension there were many sightings of him in his resurrected body. On one such occasion he appeared to over 500 all at once. He appeared to his apostles and disciples, and to two of his disciples (Cleopas and his companion) on the road to Emmaus, who said, “Were not our hearts burning within us, as he spoke to us?” He appeared to Peter after he denied him three times, and asked him three times, “Peter, do you love Me?” Then to Mary Magdalene and the other women who came to the tomb, to James, and to doubting Thomas, who said, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

Jesus provided Thomas with that opportunity, then said, “Thomas, because you have seen me you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.” The disciples last glimpse of Jesus was after he had blessed them, he ascended into heaven. Then in the following days, just as Jesus promised… the Holy Spirit descended on them as what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now that they had been equipped, they were ready to go out and share their faith in Jesus with the world.

Journey to the Cross with Jesus and prepare your heart for Resurrection Sunday!

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