Whose Birthday? #19

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Christ Was Born to Set Us Free An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families and Churches

NOTE: If you want a daily Advent/Christmas guide/calendar, choose from 20 at SimplelivingWorks.org >> Archives >> Advent/Christmas Calendars. (2000 has the same cycle and start date.) Some are lectionary-based, some are thematic. Copy your choice on recycled paper as a bulletin insert, in your own Advent-Christmas booklet or as a series in your weekly service bulletin.

Table of Contents

Complete PDF (low resolution for quicker loading) High resolution PDF comes on CD-ROM Simply the Best: Over 30 Years of Alternatives, v.5.0.

“WHOSE BIRTHDAY?” HOW-TO

• What Happened to Christmas?
• Why a Simpler Christmas?
• Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities
• Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas
• Top 10 Uses of "Whose Birthday?"
• More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use "Whose Birthday?"
• Going Beyond "Whose Birthday?"
• Alternative Giving

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS

• The Spirit of St. Nicholas
• My Hand-Make Advent Wreath
• I Am a Recovering Christmas Hater
• Strangers Invited in for Christmas
• A Christmas Cow
• Putting Christ in Christmas
• Christmas Dinner
• "Posada sin Fronteras" (Shelter without Borders)

FUN ACTIVITIES

• There's a Camel in our Bathroom!
• Giving Circles
• Gifts of Kindness
• Reducing Christmas Chaos
• Enough, Already!
• Christmas Year-round
• Discover NO COST Gifts!
• New Cards from Old
• Peace in Any Language
• St. Nicholas on Parade
• New Christmas Traditions You Can Share

About Alternatives

BONUS Items

• Advent Haiku
• Just Daily Do the Work I Give You
• How It Happened -- A vision: “what simple living looks like”
• Christmas Resistance: Toys for the World (Tune: Joy to the World)
• Enough at Christmas?
• Christmas Exterior Decorating Award
• Looking for Christmas: a story from Kentucky
• Animal Barn: an Advent pageant(Booklet Printed on Recycled Paper)

Resources

• Bring Simpler Living to Your Group!
• Other services include
• Membership
• Log on for More Ideas and Inspiration!

Copyright Creative Commons (original 2006, Alternativers for Simple Living)
Make as many copies as you choose on a not-for-profit basis.

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