How do we help children find the excitement of Advent in an increasingly anxious and isolating world? My colleagues and I decided to remind the children and ourselves that waiting for Jesus is holy at home. So this year, we are asking families to have a “found” Advent-Christmas-Epiphany season.
The families will center their expectations at home using a special Children’s Advent Guide created just for this season (see file below). Then families will gather on Sunday mornings by Zoom ™ to sing, play, and pray around this family centered Advent practice. Wednesdays offer gatherings around Facebook Family Devotional videos to remember together that God meets us where we are. On Christmas Eve-Eve we will gather to remember the Christmas Story of Luke 2:1-7 and to celebrate Holy Communion.
Someone’s coming! Who’s coming!
Jesus is coming.
Kathryn, “Kat,” is the Coordinator of Children’s Ministries at Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. She collaborates across the church’s ministry areas to create programs with a “child-sized-bite” of the congregation’s service, formation, mission, and worship. Contact Kat through the HOPE4CE facebook page for more information. She is also a member of the Hope4CE Steering Committee.
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