Resources for Advent and Christmas
Alternatives
See www.simpleliving.org/catalog
Or call 1-800-821-6153.
Without realizing it, most people began preparing for another overwhelming and commercialized Christmas last December 26! Alternatives offers a "Christmas Campaign Kit" with plans and tools for a simpler celebration. The materials are based on themes such as "Bearing Gifts Does Not Make Us Wise," "Buy Me Nothing I'll Still Love You," and "Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?" "The Christmas Campaign Kit" is also available on 30 Years of Alternatives CD for only $15!
While We Wait: Living the Questions of Advent
by Mary Lou Redding
Upper Room Books, 2002
This group study offers participants an opportunity to focus on their own faith questions about the Christmas story. It is a complete study with a weekly theme article, daily reflection pages, and a guide for five group sessions.
Order from www.upperroom.org/books,
1-800-972-0433.
A Beginning IS Change