I received an email from Charlene Dickerson during Easter time of 2003 claiming that she wrote the main part of the poem in 1997 after being inspirted by God to write it. She claims to own the copy write to the poem. You can view her poem on her website by CLICKING HERE.

I first read the poem on Annie's Easter pages in 1998, and that is the year I first made this page for Just 4 Kids Magazine. I remember having a jar full of Jelly Beans to decorate the Christian bookstore we owned in 1995. Using Jelly Beans during Easter has been a tradition for many years. Today, due to the internet the popularity of this prayer used at Easter time has spread around the world.

I received the interesting letter below in January 2004.
"I read your note about who wrote the Jelly Bean Prayer that it was created in the 90's and was a little shocked. My mother was a CCD teacher for many years and used this prayer every year during her teaching days, this was back in the 70's and 80's. She remembers having this prayer passed on to her by other teachers with no author mentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if this dated back to when the jelly bean was invented.

I remember this vividly growing up because my father will sneak out all the black jelly beans and we would never have enough for gifts to our friends.

May you always fly with Christ,
Mrs. Tammy Yoder"