The “Bundle” contains everything we’re offering for the Advent 2024 worship series More Than Words at a lower cost than purchasing every resource separately. (Sample)

Preachers’ Notes: These preaching commentaries explore connections between each week’s lectionary texts and the More Than Words theme.

November 10: Care
November 17: Faith
November 24: Justice
December 1: Hope
December 8: Peace
December 15: Joy
December 22: Love
December 25: Christmas

Children’s Message Starters: Kid-friendly connections to the week’s theme help to jump-start your brainstorm for a children’s message. Includes coloring pages to complement each week’s theme.

Words for Worship: Fresh texts for Advent worship include Greeting & Invocation, Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness, Advent Wreath-Lighting, weekly Prayers of the Day/Prayers of Illumination, Offering Prayer, Eucharistic Prayer, Prayer After Communion, and Sending. Also includes a new hymn written for this worship series, entitled “More Than Words.”

A New Hymn: The hymn “More Than Words” marries the themes of the season to Advent song.

Hymn Suggestions: Suggestions for hymns old and new that complement the Advent season, the weekly themes, and lectionary texts.

Advent Devotions: This take-home resource could be used to accompany the lighting of the household Advent wreath. Arranged around a weekly lectionary text, it guides users into exploring the weekly themes of care, faith, justice, hope, peace, joy, and love. For the first time, this download also includes a social media suite, featuring a daily devotional graphic for churches to post.

An Advent & Christmas Pageant: An intergenerational pageant opens on John the Baptist, the self-designated Biggest Fan of Jesus, who is confused about why a Christmas pageant mentions him at all! The pageant romps through the stories that surround Jesus’ birth, following the gospels right up through the night of Jesus’ nativity.

Social media graphics: Graphics with curated excerpts from our Preachers’ Notes, Words for Worship, and Pageant, suitable for posting to your own church’s social media pages. Also includes the full suite of daily devotional graphics meant to complement our Advent Devotions.

Branding kit: All the information you need to adapt our series branding for your community’s communications, including links to Canva templates.