What words herald the Advent season?

Familiar?  New?

Light-hearted?  Reflective?

Here are Advent worship resources from around the world to explore and use:

Scroll down to find:

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

Complete services, Dramas, Nativities and Christmas Pageants:

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

Blue Christmas

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

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

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

Las Posadas, Seeking room in the inn — Mexico

Las Posadas, Seeking room in the inn — Mexico

Nativity

Nativity Drama from New Zealand – through the eyes of children

Open Table service – Advent

Open Table service — Are Angels still speaking?

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 British Christmas Panto — Ana Gobledale, UK

Advent songs, carols & music:

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

Christmas Carols with Justice — SimpleLiving, USA

Advent prayers and worship resources:

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

Advent Haiku — Loey Powell, USA

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

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

Advent Prayer — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, Colorado USA

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

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

Advent prayer, Open our hearts — Eric Mason, USA

Advent Prayer: God’s Timing — Ted Loder

Advent prayers from Cairn Christian Church, Colorado USA

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

Advent Wreath – ‘Source of Light’ — Rex Hunt, Australia

Advent/Christmas Prayer of Approach — Cara Heafey, UK

Advent/Christmas Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Grace — Cara Heavey, UK

Angel Intercessions — Ana Gobledale, UK

Blue Christmas Prayer — Fiona Hulbert, UK

Blue Christmas service, complete — Ana Gobledale, UK

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

Home, Luke 2:4 — Amelia Dress, USA

Joseph friends Mary on Facebook — an Advent option

Las Posadas, Seeking room in the inn — Mexico

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

Mysterious Paradoxes, a Christmas reflection — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Prayer for the Beginning of Advent — Mary Luti, USA

Psalm 122:7, Advent – Time to Pray and Prune — Angie Brock, USA

T.S. Eliot on waiting, words for Advent

Thinking like Zechariah, Luke 1:11-15 — Eleanor A Hubbard, USA

Virgin Monologue — Jim Burklo, USA