An all-age Communion resource for Christmas
An outline for an all-age Christmas service or alternative nativity play, for Christmas Dayor other Christmas services.
A carol service to celebrate the Christmas story
Ideas for a youth group session or community party with DIY decorations, games and a serious message.
Resources for a Christingle service
Suitable as a carol service, all-age Advent service or on Christmas Day
Script for a service for all ages that blends tradition with contemporary images.
This action-packed service for Christmas incorporates elements of a traditional party-style celebration into an act of Christian worship.
An alternative to a Carol Service.
A simple Christmas Eve service for children aged six and under
Nativity service for children and young people.
A service based around the nativity story
A service for all ages on Christmas Day
A selection of resources to accompany the Roots podcast: Finding peace in a blue Christmas - embracing grief with compassion
A journey that enables children to explore the nativity story, encountering traditions and celebrations from different countries along the way.
Use this specially designed Christmas journey to give young people the opportunity to reflect on the Christmas story – you could create an event for young people or set up a school prayer space.
A party for young people to have fun and find meaning in the celebration
An interactive retelling of the nativity story and activities for families to do together.
Retelling of a classic folk tale for children about loving and giving
Discussion around the variety of stories that surround Christmas. Mythical some may be, but like all good myth it has something to teach us.
Short service for primary-school-aged children
Lots of ideas for bringing the Christmas story to life using the nativity scene figures.
Is your Christmas Carol Service in need of a refresh? Steve Dixon offers two imaginative ways of exploring the history and meaning of some of our most well-loved Christmas carols.
A Star Wars-inspired nativity service/drama for all ages
The Christmas story explored through drama and activity based on Luke 2.1-20.
A drama based on John 1.1-14.
A Christmas drama for older children and young people
A nativity drama with humour and plenty of surprises, suitable for 10- to 15-year-olds.This five-scene play by Steve Dixon is based on Luke 1.26-38; 2.1-14,(15-20)
A humorous Christmas drama according to Luke
A lively drama script for Christmas telling aspects of the Nativity story in the format of short reports on a television show
A conversation in verse between the innkeeper and his wife many years after the birth of Jesus, loosely based on Luke 2.8-20
Drama sketch for two people (who play angels), illustrating Hebrews 13.1-8
Use this drama as part of a service or a Christmas show
A drama for children about what the animals witnessed
A clever sketch based on the story of the three wise men, which teaches obliquely and through humour.
A series of prayers and reflections that can be used throughout Advent and Christmas.
Some prayers to use at church and to take home
Prayers for use during the season of Christmas
Advent candle prayer for Christmas Day, focusing on Christ, Light of the world, drawing on John 1.4-5
A reflection for Christmas Day
A reflection and a prayer for young people
Guided meditation and prayer of reflection inspired by a crib scene
This poem, suitable for use at Christmas or Easter, imagines what Joseph might have felt, watching the Crucifixion
A variety of prayers for use throughout the Christmas season
A blessing for for the figures from the crib scene
A Christmas prayer
General thanksgiving prayer for Christmas
Short prayer for parents at Christmas
Short prayer of supplication
A prayer to welcome Jesus at Christmas
A personal prayer of petition
An all-age prayer activity in which people offer God gifts of attitude changes or specific deeds, this Christmas
Blessing of travelling nativity figures
Clare Amos, Theological Resource Officer of USPG (United Society for the Propogation of the Gospel), relects on the journeys of two women from the Bible, Hagar and Mary, as part of our focus on the world church.
Ideas suitable for a midnight service but adaptable for an all-age Christmas service at any time of the day
Material for the Christmas Day readings Set I (Isaiah 9.2-7; Psalm 96; Titus 2.11-14; Luke 2.1-14,(15-20))
Resources focused on Luke 2.1-14,(15-20)
Resources focused around Luke 2.8-20
Resources focused on John 1.1-14 and Luke 2.1-18
Illustration and instructions for making a nativity scene
Christmas images taken from The Lion Storyteller Christmas Book by Bob Hartman and are used with permission.
Photo of a large model crib scene in the Vatican
Photograph of a pottery crib scene handmade in Peru
Photograph of a German handmade pewter crib scene
Tableau of knitted nativity figures