Faith Formation Ministry Advent Roundup from DWELL Curriculum and Faith Formation's Network

25 Days of Advent Family Devotional

This family faith formation activity divides the Christmas Narrative leading up to Jesus’ birth into 25 days. As Christmas day gets closer, the story of Jesus’ birth will also grow.

Download in English | Cantonese | Spanish | Bahasa Indonesia | Creole

Invite artists of all ages to illustrate your Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or First Sunday of Christmas sermon. Use one of our Illustrate Your Own rhyming verse sermons for free. (Please share appropriate credits on all platforms.)

Candle Press's Advent 2021 Downloadable resources for families to develop new traditions throughout the Advent, Christmas, & Epiphany seasons.

Cover all the bases for all the ages with the MN Conference UCC's Advent 2021 Leader Toolkits: pageant, bible study, activities, children's book lists, contemplative practice, Advent wreath lighting litany, introductory video, and more!

Building Faith's 

Building Faith's Alexis Chin wonders about, What Color Was Baby Jesus’ Hair? Representing The Christ Child Multiculturally, including numerous suggestions for exploring artwork and global expressions of Jesus and the holy family.

SALT Project created Advent Lighting Litanies

Fun craft projects

• Christmas Coloring Pages

• An Illustrated Nativity

• An Illustrated Advent Wreath

• An Illustrated Ornament Set

• An Illustrated Christmas Shadow Box Theater

• Illustrated Nativity Sticker Sheets

Many of Illustrated Ministry's Advent coloring posters also come with devotionals; create an entire program around a set of posters:

• Mary’s Song Coloring Posters / devotional guide also available here
• Advent Journey Coloring Posters / devotional guide also available here
• Names of the Messiah Coloring Posters
• Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love Coloring Posters

The Birth of Jesus Advent Calendar unfolds to become a diorama; includes a different figure to place in the scene from December 1 to 26; re-usable.

Also see Agostino Traini's The Birth of Jesus: A Christmas Pop-Up Book!

20 Creative Ways to Celebrate Advent in 2020

Advent + Instagram: Photo-a-Day Challenge: Worship Times has the resources!

Keeping Watch Under Pandemic Skies; includes a reading, reflection, prayer, song and an action for meditation and prayer.

Advent in an Envelope: A Wonderful Way to Help Families Form Faith

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This Might Be the Best Jesse Tree Set Ever

Putting Christ back into the 12 Days of Christmas

Thinking in a New Way Re. Gift Giving

From Unbound: An Interactive Journal on Christian Social Justice comes Starry Black Night: A Womanist Advent Devotional.

     YOU GIVE A GIFT

Give a gift that represents a cause that’s close to your heart. Or make a gift in someone’s honor and choose a ministry they’d love.

     YOUR GIFT JOINS WITH OTHERS

You unite with thousands of others giving to Presbyterian ministries through the Giving Catalog, increasing your gift’s capacity to bring hope to communities around the world.

     YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Your gift provides help, hope and relief to people, families and communities in need.

Building Faith's Alexis Chin wonders about, What Color Was Baby Jesus’ Hair? Representing The Christ Child Multiculturally, including numerous suggestions for exploring artwork and global expressions of Jesus and the holy family.

REIMAGINE ADVENT.
DISCOVER THE LIBERATING CHRIST.

Are we willing to rethink Advent and reach out to the Jesus of the refugees, the poor, and the marginalized, so that we may finally walk in the Light of Christ? Are we ready to examine this story of our faith in new ways and respond to God’s call for justice and joy, even if we are called to make significant changes in the ways we pray, love, give, speak out and act?

You will find along with the Lectionary texts for each week:

• Suggested hymns and songs
• A litany and opening prayer
• Options for sermon emphases, with notes
• A hands-on activity for children’s church or church school

Note: This is a digital product. No physical product will be shipped.

Explore and engage ways to end hunger during this Advent season by bringing ELCA World Hunger into your congregation and home, with resources including:

Find daily inspiration from prayers, Scripture, hymns and information about ELCA Good Gifts in our Advent Calendar.	Deepen your engagement throughout this season of Advent with our weekly study guide, where you can find impactful, motivational stories and information about how your gifts to ELCA World Hunger are at work in the world.	Action Guide for Congregations: This guide features ideas and resources to help activate your congregation in the work to end hunger and poverty this Advent season.
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Make a loan, change a life.

With Kiva you can lend a small amount of money and make a big change in someone's life. It's fast and easy to get started.

ELCA World Hunger encourage addressing local, regional and global hunger.

Seasonally appropriate materials guide congregations in specific actions and provide for worship and study.

20 Creative Ways to Celebrate Advent in 2020

LSS of MN's Sponsor a Youth holiday gift program is for individuals, families or groups. Complete the sponsor form by Nov. 20. Find additional alternative gift ideas in their 2021 Holiday Giving Program.

Illustrated Ministry shares this list of worthy Advent & Christmas giving:

• Rent Relief: Support The Conscious Kid’s fundraiser for #RentRelief. Donate here.
• Native American Community Response Fund: The fund provides grants to Native American nonprofits on the ground to ensure that they are better equipped to care for their most vulnerable—relatives facing food insecurity, access to housing, and their low-income elderly. Donate here.
• RIP Medical Debt: Every $100 donated forgives $10,000 in medical debt. Donate here.
• Bread for the World: Give to a national or global charity working to fight hunger, or support your local food bank. You can donate to Bread for the World here. For a list of some international charities fighting hunger, click here.

StoryMakers has a free download of Epiphany Puppets and a lesson plan here.