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Advent and Christmas resources
ADVENT ADVOCACY Actions
Ideas for individuals and congregations who want to honor Jesus' birth with action for peace and justice.

* Prayers and Petitions: A Call for Advent Prayer and Action, Advent 2007 and 2008

* Advent Advocacy 2006 (includes Five PowerPoints of Then and Now for Advent and Christmas Eve/Day)

* Advent Advocacy 2005

* Congregational Advent advertisement templates for your local newspaper

* Sword/Plowshare luminary design graphic for 2007

* CPT "No Way to the Inn--Bethlehem Behind the Wall" Campaign

Devotions

*  Goshen professors, staff members, and students provide daily reflections, based on lectionary Scripture passages. Available online at http://www.goshen.edu/devotions

*  Past December issues of PeaceSigns contain articles relevant to the Advent season. Check the PeaceSigns archive for articles addressing the season’s many facets.

Sermons

*  Dissonance in Bethlehem: Rachel's Lament and the Angels' Song
Matthew 2:13-23
John E. Sharp

*  Impatience: How can this be?
Mark 13:24-37, Isaiah 64:1-9, Corinthians 1:3-9
Susan Mark Landis

Worship ideas

*  Advent Prayers by Carol Penner
*  Peace and Justice Lectionary Advent Readings

litany by Mario Higueros, Guatemala

Celebration ideas

Nonviolent toy and book ideas
*  Video games for gift giving
*  What Gift Will You Bring To The Christ Child? Christmas Gift Ideas
*  Gift Ideas: At Christmas or Anytime Suggested books and videos
*  The Lion and Lamb Project
*  Bethlehem's Star is a mother's Christmas story to her child. She weaves the story of the birth of Christ out of the elements of the family Christmas tree in this children's story book.

Stories
*  The Christmas truce a true story from World War I

Work of Christmas:

When the song of the angel is still,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their sheep,
The work of Christmas begins:
to find the lost,
to heal the broken,
to feed the hungry,
to release the prisoner,
to rebuild the nations,
to bring peace among people,
to make music in the heart.
 - Howard Thurman