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Good Tidings of Great Joy:
An interactive Christmas Celebration for use in a care home.

Leaders Guide
Service Sheet
This resource is useful for running an interactive Christmas service in a residential home, and includes a leaders booklet and a booklet to print off for residents, complete with Bible readings, prayers and carols.

The service gives opportunity to sing and speak your way through the Christmas Story, using a memory box filled with head dresses for Mary, Joseph, Angels, Shepherds, and Kings.  Instruction on how to make the memory box and the head dresses are included as well as some suggestions on how to introduce them to the group.  Advent Candles are used to light individual candles as a visual aid to help share the love of Jesus the Light of the World.  Obviously check with the care home that they are happy for you to light a candle.

This particular resource, developed by  Elizabeth Stacey, who was the Pastoral Co-ordinator for Mission to Seniors at WInchester Baptist Church, has been used successfully for a number of years in various homes and has helped to bring a sense of God's presence, love and blessing to seniors and staff alike through reminiscing, laughter, fun and fellowship.

Click on the button above to download the resources. The Leader’s booklet gives practical information and details of how to make or provide all that is needed for this Christmas celebration. The Service Sheet is to print off  for everyone who attends.
The large button below formats the service sheet so that it can be printed as a booklet for residents.
Printable version of service sheet to create booklet for residents
"Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.” Psalm  71v9
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Care Home Friends is a project of Embracing Age, Registered Charity No. 1160400                                                                                                                     ©  2021 EMBRACING AGE.
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact
  • What we're doing
    • Alexa
    • Cards of Kindness
    • Sensory Knitted Aquariums
    • Flower Bouquet Blessings
    • Isle of Wight >
      • GiftBox
      • Wight Mask Ask
  • For Churches
    • Supporting care homes during coronavirus
    • Get involved in Care Home Friends
    • Project Resources >
      • Resources for Champions
      • Volunteer Resources
      • Volunteer Training Home
    • Resources for Leading Services in a Care Home >
      • Christmas Nativity
    • Ministry amongst Seniors >
      • Pilgrims Progress
    • Intergenerational Ideas
  • For Care Homes
    • Spiritual Care during Covid
  • Carers Connected
    • Reflections by Carers
    • Resources for Carers
  • Dementia
  • Donate
    • ASICS London 10k