RESOURCES FOR
Advent
Waiting for God
This lesson for the first week of Advent explores the idea that God’s people were waiting and hoping for the promised Messiah, and leaves children to consider the difference it makes to the way they live, knowing they can welcome his arrival in their lives now even while we wait with hope for his return.
Target group: Elementary Children
The Advent Parish Devotional
The Advent Parish Devotional is a week-by-week devotional with lectionary readings from Year C for each day of the season leading up to Christmastide. It includes a weekly devotional for children and families using stories from The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd Jones. These can be reproduced for free and printed.
Target group: Designed to appeal to adults, but written to welcome the youngest among us
God With Us
God With Us is a series of evening devotions for the season of Advent, helping families to pray, wonder, and learn to retell the Biblical stories of Jesus’ birth. Listen to “Light One Candle,” a song that appears in one of the booklet’s devotions.
Target group: All ages
Holy-days at Home: Year A
The Holy-days at Home booklets, created by the Rev. Leah Wall, offer family prayers, Scripture readings, and practices for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. “Holy-days” reminds us of the origin of our word “holidays.” There is one booklet for each year of the lectionary.
Target group: Families
Holy-days at Home: Year B
The Holy-days at Home booklets, created by the Rev. Leah Wall, offer family prayers, Scripture readings, and practices for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. “Holy-days” reminds us of the origin of our word “holidays.” There is one booklet for each year of the lectionary.
Target group: Families
Holy-days at Home: Year C
The Holy-days at Home booklets, created by the Rev. Leah Wall, offer family prayers, Scripture readings, and practices for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. “Holy-days” reminds us of the origin of our word “holidays.” There is one booklet for each year of the lectionary.
Target group: Families
The Liturgical Home: Advent
Advent is the beginning of the Church year, but it is often neglected in the rush of shopping and holiday preparation. Why not slow down, and focus instead on the promises of God? Bring the hope of Advent to your home. Author Ashley Tumlin Wallace has collected recipes and traditions from around the world and compiled them into The Liturgical Home: Advent, a living guidebook to help families celebrate the season of Advent in their own homes.
Target group: All ages