Today’s Act of Kindness: Send a text with encouragement to a friend or family member.
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 2:13-20
Today’s Family Activity: Build a graham cracker Nativity stable using graham crackers and frosting. Then decorate.
Today’s Act of Kindness: Support the Troops and your local police officers, firefighters, EMT workers. Check your community newspapers or search online for local opportunities.
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 2:8-12
Today’s Family Activity: Make a snow angel. (Warmer climate – make a sand angel.) Then enjoy a glass of cider.
Today’s Act of Kindness – Return someone’s cart at the store.
Today’s Bible Reading – Luke 2:1-7
Today’s Family Activity – Have a sleepover around the Christmas tree.
Today’s Act of Kindness – Make an extra serving of dinner and bring it to someone who is sick or make them a get well card.
Today’s Bible Reading – Luke 1:67-80
Today’s Family Activities – Make salt dough (recipes online) Christmas story characters and re-enact the Christmas story.
Today’s Act of Kindness: Wrap up cookies for mail carriers, teachers, baby sitters, sanitation workers, custodians, librarians, newspaper carriers, etc.
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 1:57-66
Today’s Family Activities: Make sandwiches for lunch. Cut into star shapes. Talk about the Christmas star. Read Matthew 2:1-2.
Today’s Act of Kindness: Bring up a neighbors garbage cans for them.
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 1:46-56
Today’s Family Activity: Gather around the Christmas tree and read Christmas books by flashlight and tree light.
Today’s Act of Kindness: Give a compliment.
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 1:39-45
Today’s Family Activity: Go to library tocheck out some Christmas themed books.
Today’s Act of Kindness: Let someone go ahead of you in line.
Today’s Bible Reading: Matthew 1:18-25
Today’s Family Activity: Have a Christmas movie night. Make Christmas popcorn. (popcorn, butter, mini marshmallows, red and green M & Ms, Christmas confetti sprinkles.)
Today’s Act of Kindness – Participate in Toys for Tots or Operation Santa Claus or Operation Christmas Child or The Angel Tree.
Today’s Bible Reading – Luke 1:26-38
Today’s Family Activity – Gather around the Christmas tree. Talk about the symbolism of the evergreen and everlasting life. Read John 10:28.
Today’s Act of Kindness: Fill Bags with necessities and give to the homeless. (socks, tooth brush, tooth paste, bottled water, Christmas cookies, a fast food gift card, gloves, hat, scarf, mittens, etc)
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 1:18-25
Today’s Family Activity: Set out the nativity as you read the Christmas story.
Something extra: Listen to Pastor Dodge’s teaching on Luke 1:5-25.
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