We’ve given you many resources for Advent Season here on sojournmusic.com, and we’ll present more Advent readings for your personal, family and congregational worship tomorrow. Today, here is an idea for teaching and celebrating Advent with your small children. This comes courtesy of Sojourn member Laura Roberts, who blogs at madenoughtopray:
When I was a child, we had a super detailed, carved wood nativity set (got it from a “mission fair” at my church) that we put up after Thanksgiving. We set the stable up with the manger and a cow, hid baby Jesus, and then Mary and Joseph “traveled” around the living room until Christmas Eve, when they finally arrived in the stable and had baby Jesus. Then on Christmas Day the shepherds showed up (they had been “abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night” on the other end of the bookcase). We left the set up until January 6, which is Three Kings’ Day, when we turned the stable into a house and had the wise men visit Toddler Jesus. It was super fun to move the characters every day, and it put the whole story at the front of our minds all Advent long.
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Sample “Call to Worship†Scripture Reading for the Season of Advent
Prayers Of Adoration And Invocation For The Season of Advent
Sample Prayer Of Confession for the Season of Advent
“Assurance of Pardon†Scripture Reading For The Season of Advent
Prayer For Illumination and Prayer Of Thanksgiving For Advent Season
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