Do you sometimes feel that you are the only one who longs for a different way to celebrate Christmas? We promise you it’s not true. Last year the BBC blog invited views on this and it was both sad and revealing to realise how many negative words there were – “it’s just about greed, false sincerity, a relentless marketing exercise. Sooner it’s come and gone the better”. That was last year ...so how do we make this year different, not only for ourselves but for the community around us?

There are many ways of telling God’s story and telling Our Story. A good way of doing this can be to get a whole group of people involved in a communal craft project at a particular time of year. This material explains how to make a giant angel for Advent/Christmas as a communal project.You can download jpg images of the project by clicking the images below and then right click the image and select "Save image as"

These prayer stations have been produced by Dave Coaker, minister at Leyland and Penwortham, and provide a useful link between Prayer and Evangelism Years. There is a document for the text and another for setting up.

This video produced by Ian Fosten might be a helpful resource for the evangelism year, especially Christmas. Ian writes: "I’ve used it on a loop in the past and will have it running in the bar at the Seagull Theatre this Christmas."

This video link was submitted by Ray Adams. It is evangelism in a novel style!