Advent & Christmas

In The Salvation Army, every Advent season is an opportunity to share hope, joy, and the message of Christ with our communities. To help you invite people to your corps’ Christmas events and services, we’ve created a new editable Canva template you can easily customize and share.

📅 Advent Invitation Card Template

This festive, ready-to-edit card helps you invite community members to your Christmas services, carol nights, or other Advent events. It’s designed to be simple, welcoming, and reflective of The Salvation Army’s mission and message during the Christmas season.

🎨 Easy to Customize

You don’t need any design experience—just click the link, update your corps details, event information, and times, and download for print or digital sharing.

👉 [Advent Invitation Template – Canva Link]

This tool is perfect for:

• Handing out at Sunday services or community programs

• Including in food hampers or toy distribution packs

• Sharing digitally on social media or via email

Let’s make this Advent season a time of meaningful connection and invitation, showing our communities that Hope is Here.

If you’d like support using Canva or adapting the design for your local ministry, we’re happy to help. Together, we can create clear, caring, and Christ-centered communication for Christmas.

About Life.Church Open Network

Annual worship planning resources for the Church seasons of Advent and Lent are managed through the Corps and Community Mission Department.

The 2026 Advent Worship Series, My Christmas Song, is available here:Download 2026 Advent Worship Series resources (ZIP)(The first Sunday of Advent is November 29, 2026)

Kids Five Advent videos are available here:Download Kids Five videos 2026

Christmas Season 2026 – Bellringer Devotionals:Download Kettle Devos 2026 (PDF)

The 2026 Lent Worship Series, The Gifts of Lent, is available here:Download 2026 Lent Worship Series resources (ZIP)

A rich and thoughtfully curated Advent resource from The Salvation Army (UK), this “Love Came Down” series offers weekly themes, sermon starters, prayers, worship ideas, children’s crafts, graphics, and more to guide congregations and individuals through Advent. Over four weeks, the focus moves from “Love Reaches Out” to “Love Shows Up,” inviting users to see how God’s love becomes active in unexpected places. salvationist.org.uk

Courtesy & Acknowledgement:We gratefully acknowledge The Salvation Army (United Kingdom) for making these resources available. 

Step into the season of Advent with Hope of All the Earth — a brand-new resource designed to engage churches, small groups, and families of all ages. This study invites us to discover the heart of Advent, where:

• Hope meets the hopeless

• Peace calms the chaos

• Joy refreshes the weary

• Love embraces the forgotten

Centered on the truth that Jesus is the Hope of All the Earth, this resource provides tools for every ministry setting:

• Pastor’s Resource – sermon outlines, liturgies, and planning guides for worship services.

• Children’s Resource – interactive lessons and activities to help kids experience the wonder of Advent.

• Youth Resource – age-appropriate reflections and discussions to connect students with the Advent story.

• Spanish Resources – including the devotional and Pastor’s Resource (Esperanza de Todos) available for Advent 2025.

This Advent, unite your congregation and community in a shared journey of expectation and celebration.

Explore engaging Christmas and Advent resources, perfect for worship and family gatherings. Highlights include themed weeks like Holy Infant, Tender and Mild and The Dawn of Redeeming Grace, family-friendly Advent calendars, devotionals, and materials for youth, such as Friendsgiving guides and Angel Tree resources. Equip your community with Christmas party visuals, student materials, and children’s storytelling tools. Special thanks to the USA Southern Territory for graciously allowing the use and sharing of these materials!

GriefShare's "Surviving the Holidays" program is a faith-based resource that helps people navigate the pain of holiday seasons after losing a loved one. The event provides participants with a supportive community, a practical video, small-group discussions, and a guide filled with coping tools and scripture. Designed for church leaders, it offers an accessible way to offer comfort to grieving individuals during a challenging time. For more information, visit GriefShare.

This Christmas, bring the powerful story-telling of The Chosen to your church with this new four week sermon series kit.

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Discover free Christmas sermons and ideas, art and graphics packages, kids lessons, worship music, and more from Life.Church and our partners.

 Christmas Sermon Series

• Holy Moments illustrates how unexpected moments can become holy moments with God's help.
• God With Us focuses on Emmanuel and how God is with us in all situations.
• Missing Peace presents the peace that surpasses all understanding.

As we prepare for the birth of the Messiah, Advent can be a season of transformation. These four readings entitled, “From Prophecy to Fulfillment”, “From Ordinary to Extraordinary”, “From Fear to Wonder”, and “From Slaves to Sons” will help you and your congregation transform your hearts.

This idea was submitted by Mary Read Horton, Pastoral Care Department, Territorial Headquarters – Canada and Bermuda.