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Creating Advent & Christmas Faith Practices in a Box for Your Congregation
This year we’re going to need to be giving our families creative ways to celebrate Advent and Christmas at home. Now, more than ever, families are going to be celebrating Advent and Christmas at home. I created this tutorial to show you one way of using Faithful Families For Advent and Christmas to create “Advent
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Family Advent Wreath Instructions and Simple Liturgy
I’m so pleased to offer the Advent wreath and liturgy from my first book Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home, published by Chalice Press in 2017. If you like it, be sure to check out the full book which has more than 50 easy to implement ideas for families to use at home. Get
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5 Simple Ways to Use Picture Books During Advent for All Ages Ministry
Family ministry (and ministry in general!) can be extremely chaotic during Advent. Churches squeeze in a lot of programs and activities, and ministry to children and families becomes a priority as visitors and friends attend. One of the “tricks up my sleeve” during Advent has been to rely on good picture books to rotate during
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Free 2018 Advent Family Faith Practices Calendar!
For the past few years I’ve offered an advent calendar to churches through my Etsy shop. This year I decided to offer it for free, both as a gesture of gratitude to all those churches and individuals who have supported me and my work, and also in the hopes of promoting Faithful Families. Faithful Families is doing great,
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A Quick Thought About Santa Claus, Jesus and Unconditional Love When You’re “Naughty”
“Mama, does Santa bring you presents if you are bad?” My five year old asked me that question this week with a worried look on his face. “Yes,” I said. “That’s not what I heard. I heard that if you’re bad you don’t get anything at all.” “Well, in this house, we don’t believe in
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Christmas Love Letters from God by Glenys Nellist: A Review and Giveaway!
Last week when I posted about Advent Calendars, I mentioned that I’m planning on doing the “book a day” calendar with my children, starting on December 1. I’ve already wrapped all of the books (um, it took more time than I anticipated, but I was watching The West Wing, so it’s all good.) and
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5 Advent Calendar Ideas that Focus on Family Time, Kindness and Service
I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that there’s a part of me that really thinks the best Advent Calendar idea is something that gives the child a toy every day. I’m particularly eying the Lego City calendar, the Plamobil calendar, and the Thomas the Train calendar. They’re cool, right? Getting a toy every day from the
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Day 3: Renew #NPCAdvent #Advent
Today’s Prompt: Write about being renewed. If you look closely, you can still see the scar in the bottom third of my pinkie finger on my left hand. I sliced my finger down to where I could see the bone (I know! Sorry!) when I was about 22 years old. It happened while trying to
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Peace #npcadvent2015 #advent
Today’s Prompt: Write about something that gives you peace or robs you of it. My cell phone gives me peace and it robs me of it, too. When I’m in the store and I don’t remember what the recipe calls for, I look it up. Peace. When I am standing in line and wanting
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