Christmas 2007
The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighbourhood
Welcome to the Christmas site
Reimagine Christmas with your community this year. Rediscover the story. Retell it in your homes, churches, schools, and shopping centres. Reaffirm the mystery of the Word becoming flesh.
Lifewords inspire ... resources to use and adapt in your world, your way.
PowerPoint presentations to go* - loop them in an entrance lobby or while people are coming and going, play them as part of a service or an event, use them to tell a story, they're yours to use in whatever way fits your context best.
If you'd like to make your own presentations, there are blank templates for notices and songs here.
And he shall be called...
A simple, text-based, looping presentation featuring just some of the dozens of names Jesus is given throughout the Bible. To get the full effect you will need to download and install the Almonte Woodgrain font**. It's available free from Neatfonts. It will work without it, but it won't be as pretty! And if that's too much hassle, you could play the MP4 version instead.
What if God was one of us?
Provocative photo montage exploring the idea of God with us, Jesus' humanity, and the state of the world. This was made to go with one of our prayer stations, but could be used more broadly too.
Contains images that some may find shocking.
(large file - 13MB)
Christmas - Meet the Cast
This presentation is great for playing in the background at family events, telling the Christmas story using the cute characters from the Meet the Cast booklet. This is the looping automatic version. There's a storytelling version too, if you need it as a visual aid.
*to download, just right click the name of the file you want and select 'save target as' or 'save link as'.
**to install a font, download the zipped file to your desktop, and click on it to unzip it. You'll see a file with .ttf on the end. That's the font itself. Drag that onto the desktop. Now open 'my computer', click on 'local disk (C:)', and open the 'WINDOWS' folder. You'll see a folder called 'fonts' there. Drag the font into this folder. Next time you start Word or Powerpoint that font will be available. Didn't work? Try it this way.