Resources for Children’s Ministry Leaders During Advent and Christmas
As the Advent season begins, we are here to partner with you as you help engage your community around the most wonderful time of the year. Look through these great resources you can use for your ministry or equip parents to share with their children at home.
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Leader Resources
Family Advent Guide
This guide is a great way to encourage families to discuss, read, pray, and do family activities that are centered around Jesus’ birth this Christmas season.
- Lifeway Kids
Brite Elementary Weekend Curriculum
Brite is the digitally delivered weekend curriculum for child discipleship from Awana. Try four lessons FREE by visiting the link below!
- Awana
Fill the Ark Calendar
Help feed struggling families with a different sort of Advent Calendar! This family devotional calendar gives families in your ministry a meaningful way to gather together in gratitude and generous giving each day.
- Heifer International
Kids Media for Christmas
Get tons of high-quality Christmas Games, Countdowns, Mini-Movies, Graphics, and more for your Kid’s Ministry!
- 12:30 Kids
Special offer: Get over $100 in Free Kids’ Media here!
Double Vision: Christmas On-Screen Game
In this on-screen game, kids/families must find the Christmas picture on each slide without a double.
- Deeper Kidmin
Special offer: Enter Coupon code “INCMxmasdoublevision” at checkout for a free copy.
Christmas Card Fundraising Campaign
Participate in this popular Christmas Card fundraising campaign. Help us spread the word about our mission to provide the transforming gift of mobility to people with a disability living in developing nations.
- Free Wheelchair Mission
Family Resources
Adventure Bible Christmas Activity Packet
This special Christmas activity packet includes a 7-day reading plan, two devotions, a word search with answer key, and a fill-in-the-blank game with answer key.
- Harper Collins
Advent Blocks
Advent Blocks is a tangible, meaningful practice to help kids—and parents—anticipate Jesus at Christmas, not just presents. Each day during December, you’ll read a story, turn a block, and celebrate that God is coming to earth!
- GoodKind
Special offer: Get a 4 week, 5 sermon series starter kit here!
Christmas Activities: Ornaments and Coloring
For ministry leaders and parents alike! These ornaments and corresponding coloring page feature God’s recurring, faithful promise to rescue us.
- David C Cook
Family Advent Guide FAMTIME mini-box
“Awaiting the Arrival” is one of three Family Time Advent Guides designed to provide a weekly family worship experience with a fun, hands-on activity.
- Family Time Training
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God’s Promise Kept Advent Celebration Kit
This Advent celebration kit includes a candle and candleholder, 25 daily Bible reflections with a sticker for each daily reflection, and a poster to put the stickers on each day.
- Scripture Union USA
Special offer: Use the coupon code “INCM2023” for 10% off.
The Light Before Christmas
The Light Before Christmas contains thirteen devotionals—three for each of the four weeks of Advent and one more for Christmas.
- New Growth Press
Special offer: Save 35% off retail on this family devotional using the coupon code “INCM35”
Christmas Bundle
Good things come in 3s! In this BUNDLE, find the video of Miss PattyCake and friends with lots of MUSIC, a colorful, rhyming book, the NEW coloring book, and more!
- Miss Patty Cake
The Thankfulness Jar
Kids will love reading and coloring “The Thankfulness Jar,” which tells how Julia and her family’s generous and grateful hearts helped make an impact on the mission field.
- Advancing Native Missions
Events
The Best Gift: A Christmas Special with Spot
This Christmas program for churches and families discusses the wise men who visited Jesus as a young boy and gave gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. But the BEST gift is the baby Jesus himself!
- Matt Adams Ministry
Special offer: Save 30% through Dec 1st!
A Night Like No Other
Don’t spend hours looking for your Christmas program this year. Download this complete kit and get started. Customize the service (it’s in a Word document) and make it easy to assign parts and change songs.
- Christ To All
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