What words herald the Advent season?
Familiar?  New?
Light-hearted?  Reflective? Confessional?  Hopeful?
Here are Advent worship resources from around the world to explore and use.

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• Advent prayers and worship resources
• Advent songs, carols & music
• Complete services, Dramas, Nativities and Christmas Pageants
• Link to Advent images
• Blue Christmas resources

Advent prayers and worship resources:

A Very British Nativity – Joint Public Issues Team, UK

Advent Candle 1, Hope — Rex Hunt, Australia

Advent Confession — Cara Heafey, UK

Advent Devotional — Joanna Hipp, Presbyterians for Earth Care, USA

Advent Prayer — by Pope Francis, adapted by Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Advent Prayer — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Advent Prayer for Children & Families – Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Advent Prayer in time of Drought — Phyl Austin and Ana Gobledale, Australia

Advent prayer, Open our hearts — Eric Mason, USA

Advent prayers from Cairn Christian Church, Colorado USA

Advent Psalm – Zach Ford, UK

Advent reflection from a young mother — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Advent vestry prayer — UK

Advent, time to pray and prune — Angie Brock, USA

Advent, words of preparation — William Stephenson, USA

Advent/Christmas Confession & Assurance — Cara Heavey, UK

Advent/Christmas Prayer of Approach — Cara Heafey, UK

Angel Intercessions — Ana Gobledale, UK

Beginning Again, Advent Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Blue Christmas

Blue Christmas / Longest Night

Blue Christmas Prayer — Fiona Hulbert, UK

Blue Christmas service, complete — Ana Gobledale, UK

Busy-ness Advent Prayer — Tod Gobledale, UK

By Faith, a Christmas reflection — Bronwyn Angela White, New Zealand

Call to Worship, Advent 4 — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Christmas Conception — Jim Burklo, USA

Christmas Gift Sunday offering prayer — Ana Gobledale, UK

Christmas Hope — William Stephenson, USA

Down to the river, Advent Drama — Tod & Ana Gobledale, UK

From darkness to light: the Advent procession –Salisbury Cathedral, UK

Home, Luke 2:4 — Amelia Dress, USA

Hope Haiku — Loey Powell, USA

Hope, Luke 3:5-6 — Kay Lowe-Wendling, USA

How Love Came to Earth — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Joseph friends Mary on Facebook — an Advent video

Las Posadas, Seeking room in the inn, song — Jim Burklo, USA

Light a little candle, Matthew 2:1-2– Jeremy McLeod, Colorado USA

Mysterious Paradoxes, a Christmas reflection — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

On waiting — T.S. Eliot

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Advent songs, carols & music:

Advent hymn, The Waiting — Sam Goodman, UK

Advent hymns unpacked, Words Matter — Jane Clements, UK

Angels from the realms…new words for an old tune — Christine & Ted Haines, UK

At the Manger, Carol — George Stuart, Australia

Christmas Carols with Justice — SimpleLiving, USA

Come to Our World, O Christ-Sophia, hymn — Jann Aldredge-Clanton, USA

Gently transcend, Carol — Sam Goodman, UK

Good News, Carol — Sam Goodman, UK

In this bleak pandemic — Jim Burklo, USA

Little Star, Christmas hymn — Heather Whyte, UK

Love Eternal, hymn – Sam Goodman, UK

Tidings of comfort & joy, Carol — George Stuart, Australia

To love as you love, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Worship Mystery, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

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Complete services, Dramas, Nativities and Christmas Pageants:

Animal Nativity with knock-knock jokes & talking animals — UK

Blue Christmas

Blue Christmas / Longest Night

Blue Christmas / Longest Night Reflection — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Cafe Church, Open Table service – Advent

Cafe Church, Open Table service — Are Angels still speaking?

Gabriel’s Greeting, Mary’s monologue — Eleanor Hubbard, USA

Las Posadas, Seeking room in the inn — Mexico

Las Posadas, Seeking room in the inn, song — Jim Burklo, USA

Luke 3:1-6, Drama: Prepare ye the way — Tod & Ana Gobledale, UK

Nativity

Nativity Drama from New Zealand – through the eyes of children

Scouts International Peace Light Service

Season of Giving (in rhyme), for Advent — Jack Ouston, UK

Teenage Mary calls home, an Advent monologue — Ana & Tod Gobledale, UK

The King’s Christmas, a Christmas Panto — Ana Gobledale, UK

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Advent images

Advent images through global eyes and a creative lens.  These photos and illustrations, posted on Worship Words, may be used freely for worship and devotional purposes. Please acknowledge the photographer/artist.

Advent & Christmas Images

Blue Christmas Resources

Angel Intercessions — Ana Gobledale, UK

Blue Christmas / Longest Night Reflection — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Blue Christmas Prayer — Fiona Hulbert, UK

Blue Christmas service, complete — Ana Gobledale, UK

Dark Moments — Ann Lewin, UK

Holy Darkness, Hold Us — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

In this bleak pandemic — Jim Burklo, USA

John 1:5, Come, shine in the darkness — Cara Heafey, UK

Longest Night lament & intercessions — Cara Heafey, UK

Longest Night opening prayer — Cara Heafey, UK

Mary’s lament, monologue — Ana Gobledale, UK

Miscarriage in Advent — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

On Epiphany day — Walter Brueggemann

The nights are long — source unknown

What I do and do not believe — A Statement of Faith for a Blue Christmas service — Loren Richmond, USA

Winter Prayer: God’s Timing — Ted Loder

Words to still the soul — Jeanne Lohman, USA

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