First Sunday of Advent
November 30, 2008
 
 
  Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 21, 2008
 

First Sunday After Christmas
December 28, 2008
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Instructions for Advent Monologues
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Instructions for Monologues

The monologues are designed to be presented after the sermon is preached as a conclusion or response time. How you go about using them is up to you. The monologues can be done with a narrator and projector images, or they can be memorized and presented in full costume. It all depends on what you and the people in your church feel comfortable with presenting. There is also a song suggestion at the end of each monologue that goes along with the character. If your reader/performer is not a singer, invite another individual to do this or have the congregation participate in the singing.

Also included following the monologue and song, is an Advent reading with a Nativity scene highlight. This can be done by your youth group, pre-teen class, or a different family each week. Rather than simply lighting the Advent candles, I have put a character from the Nativity on the communion table each week.
If you have time, creativity, and the desire, you can also make Advent banners to hang on the sanctuary walls. We took dark blue fabric and added candles using cream colored fabric. Each Sunday of Advent there was an additional banner on the wall as we lit the real candles during the service. Anything that makes worship a rich experience can be very helpful to prepare people for what Christmas is really about.

We used the song Shine On Us throughout the season to incorporate the theme of lights that is prevalent during the holiday season and Advent rituals. You can use any song you desire, but using one throughout the whole season adds continuity to what is taking place. People like to be led on a journey and Christmas is a wonderful time to take people somewhere. Christmas is the same story year after year but it doesn’t have to get old if we continue to lead people, thoughtfully, purposefully to the manger once again.

Olivia Metcalf
Co-pastor
Atwater Church of the Nazarene