Advent Prayer
Ways to pray through Advent and Christmas individually, as a family, and with your community.
NEW Prayer Activities
To Us a Child is Born
Four new prayer activities centered around Isaiah 9:6, to help you pray during Advent and Christmastime.
Advent devotionals
Pray through Advent with Lectio 365, our daily devotional app
Throughout December we will be praying through every verse of the Christmas story as it’s captured in the Gospel of Luke. Together we will imaginatively enter into the story and notice how God’s presence and salvation action transformed lives, families, communities and ultimately the whole world.
Advent prayers for the whole family
Family prayers for Advent from Lectio for Families
Lectio for Families is a free devotional for families to do together. It features daily Bible readings, a weekly memory verse, engaging questions to pause and talk about, and prompts for reflection and prayer.
Help young people to pray in Advent
Prayer activities for Advent from Prayer Spaces in Schools
These free prayer activities were designed for a Christmas-themed prayer space in a school, but they also work as Advent kids’ group activities in church or Christmas crafts to do as a family.
Advent Resources from Previous Years:
Explore prayer resources and prayer room activities from previous years.
GB Advent Prayer Activities
Six new prayer stations to help you pray creatively
24-7 Prayer Great Britain has created an Advent Prayer Activity Pack to help you and your community pray in creative and focused ways. You can access the prayer pack, along with 24-7 Prayer GB’s ‘Candles of Hope’ challenge and other Advent resources from the Great Britain team, on their website:
Advent prayer room resources
Creative prayer activities for Advent
The weeks before Christmas can be hectic, but they also present a real opportunity for reflection, celebration, and generosity as the family of God.
This guide has five creative prayer stations to help you and your community focus on who Jesus is, who we are in Him and how we can share His love to those around us this season.
You can use these ideas in a prayer room, a small group setting, or for interactive prayer in as part of a church service.
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