Christmas

Christmas

Christmas Father

The Christmas adverts are out: tables heaving with food, well-dressed people, beautiful homes, extravagant gifts, everything bright and shiny.  Anyone noticed the cost-of-living crisis? The eat or heat question? Strike action? Or wondered how much of a feast you ...
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Come Along, Christmas All Age service

A talk that encourages children to come alongside 3 key Christmas characters and explore how the birth of Jesus offers ordinary people an extraordinary encounter with the God who welcomes them.

A Christmas story walk-through is also available on the same theme, which is designed for those

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Come Along, Christmas Walkthrough

A hands-on experience that encourages children to come alongside 3 key Christmas characters and explore how the birth of Jesus offers ordinary people an extraordinary encounter with the God who welcomes them.

This Christmas story walk-through is designed for those who wouldn’t want to co

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Christmas with the cousins

Have you ever spent Christmas at your cousins' house? It’s still Christmas; the tree is decorated, the table set with food, but everything feels different. Askew. It’s not the same as Christmas at home. This year is our fourth Christmas with the cousins – our cou ...
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I’m dreaming of a thankful Christmas

It was like a wrapping paper blizzard. It already covered the floor. It didn’t stop. Tearing, ripping, throwing and moving on. In that moment I knew our family Christmas had taken a wrong turn. It felt like we were ripping through each present without gratitude or any sense that someone had ...
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The Adventure of Christmas

In this seasonal series you will find a Christmas buffet of resource treats. The four flexible sessions have been written so that you can fill your plate with what you and your church family need this Christmas.

Use the lesson plans as a Sunday School series, with optional scripts to help

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The Adventure of Christmas

Kids, parents, grandparents, churches, ministers, streets, communities – we’re going on a Christmas adventure and we want you to join us! Our belly-busting Christmas menu of resources is being prepared and there’s something for everyone. So, get out your diary right now a ...
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God with Us – really?

Immanuel. The Bible makes the mega claim that the baby Mary gave birth to, the baby Joseph named ‘Jesus’, is in fact Immanuel – ‘God with us’. Why is that great? Jesus is God with us. It seems a fairly simple statement, b ...
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Christmas Bake Along Invitation

Faith in Kids hosts a bake-along video featuring Martha Collison guiding families through baking gingerbread men & women. This realtime baking lesson is interspersed with short all age talks explaining the reason for th

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What is Christmas bake along all about?

“She will have a son, and they will name him Immanuel.” This name means “God is with us.” Matthew 1:23 (International Children’s Bible). The good news of Christmas is that God is with us. In person, taking our form, into our world, hands on and messy, part of ...
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