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Love Gift Advent Tree

We make pearl angels to place on an Advent tree. On the first Sunday in Advent each family takes an angel and prays about the type of love gift they will do for Advent. They may choose to help family, to give a love gift to a neighbor, or even to give a monetary gift to the love fund in our church. At any rate, they are participating and hopefully the season of Advent will have special personal meaning for each of them.
--Debbie Black, Mission Coordinator, Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, Liberty, NC.

 
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An "Alternative" Carol

GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN

Slow down ye frantic shoppers for there's something we must say.
If you would spare a moment all the stores would go away.
Big business has been telling us what Christmas means today.
 
Now it's time we decided for ourselves, for ourselves,
Yes, it's time we decided for ourselves.
 
To some folks Christmas means a time for gathering with friends.
And enemies might take it as a time to make amends.
But TV says it's time for pricey gifts and selfish ends.
 
Now it's time we decided for ourselves, for ourselves,
Yes, it's time we decided for ourselves.
 
Some people feel that Christmas is when Jesus makes a call.
For others it's a time to stress good will and peace to all.
But advertisers tell us it means Santa's at the mall.
 
Now it's time we decided for ourselves, for ourselves,
Yes, it's time we decided for ourselves.
 

From Center for a New American Dream. To read more carols, visit http://www.newdream.org/holiday/carols.php.

FOR MORE HYMNS FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS,
see Alternatives' collections

  • Carols with Justice Sing-along | Carols with Justice TEXT

  • Sing Justice! Do Justice! from Hymn Sociey in the US and Canada.

    For Advent
    God of Justice Everflowing, #19
    Hope Is a Candle, #17
    We Walk Today in Darkness, #10

    For Christmas
    Dream a Dream, #22
    O Baby Born In Bethlehem, #11 (also in Alternatives' A Christmas Collection, one of the three Read Alone-Read Aloud booklets.)

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