Whose Birthday? #20

Archives: Index Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #20

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An Advent and Christmas Resource
for Families, Individuals and Churches

If you want a daily Advent/Christmas guide/calendar, choose from 20 at SimpleLivingWorks.org >> Archives >> Advent/Christmas Calendars (2001 has the same cycle (A) and start date - Dec. 2nd). 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.

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

Table of Contents

“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

• This Season, Practice Christian Hospitality
• The Promise of Advent: Gospel Nonviolence
• Getting Beyond Trading
• Giving BIG - A Modern Day Widow's Mite
• Away in a Stank Manger
• Connecting at Christmas
• Christmas for Real
• Do Not Conform, But Be Transformed
• Recovering Jesus

FUN ACTIVITIES

• Savoring Christmas Letters
• The Joy of Reading Aloud
• St. Nick: The Real Santa Claus
• Gift of Our Gifts
• Extending the Joy
• Twelve Days of Christmas Activity Envelopes
• Epiphany Celebration
• Simple Candle-Lighting Ritual / Christmas Math
• Breaking the Rules
• Christmas Poems

About Alternatives

• Credits & Copying
• Resources

BONUS Items

• Twelve Days of Christmas Activity Envelopes
• More from Anne Basye's Journal
• St. Nicholas and the Tax Collectors
• Who Is Christmas for, Anyway
• Can Christmas Cost Too Much?
• O Advent Morn / O Troubled Town of Washington / Holy Evening
• A Simple Life
• Making the Holidays Your Own
• A Christmas Prayer Service

Resources

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

Copyright Creative Commons (original 2007, Alternatives for Simple Living)
Make as many copies as you choose on a not-for-profit basis.

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