I (Jodi) have a confession to make: I don’t like Christmas pageants. It's not just the significant planning that they can require. It's not even just the stress that they can bring …
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Christmas Pageants 2020: Recorded, Zoomed, Live Outside
How can we share the incredible story of the Incarnation through mediums that will engage our community in meaningful ways of retelling the narrative while maintaining appropriate …
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Christmas Pageants: The Joy of Children Immersed in Scripture
"The most vivid and lasting educational experiences a child can have are those involving drama." Why Do a Christmas Pageant? Why go crazy for the month before Christmas when life …
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Why We Need Christmas Pageants
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given...And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." -Isaiah …
The Sacredness of the Waiting: An Advent Reflection with a Wreath Lighting Liturgy
I didn’t know about Advent as a kid, but I understood the aching desire for Christmas to arrive. Whether I was looking forward to eggnog, winter break, Christmas pageants, …
Symposium on the Spirituality of Children
Click here to access this event on Teachable. About this Event This Symposium focuses on the latest research in the field of Children’s Spirituality. Through the Teachable …
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Pandemic Times in a Small Church: Using Our Gifts to Celebrate Our Gifts
Eleven years ago, I left the parish where I had been a staff member for children’s ministries for 26 years, and joined a small, diverse, welcoming congregation in a nearby town, …
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An Intergenerational Epiphany Pageant
"Saints before the altar bending, watching long in hope and fear. Suddenly our hope unending, in Creation shall appear.Come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ the new …
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Come to the Manger
Christ Church in Alexandria Virginia has far more worshippers on Christmas Eve than we could ever reasonably accommodate in our historic 18th-century space. Was putting the 50-150 …
Christmas Pageant Ideas, Tips, and Scripts
"Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere! Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born!" Preparing for the Pageant Does your church offer a …
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