Wednesday 24 December 2025
Advent and Christmas Resources
Join ‘Gifted’ with resources to support your worship, welcome, and witness.
Christmas Eve
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Also see readings selected for Christmas Day
Isaiah 9: 2-7
Born in the night, Mary's child (StF 193)
Hark! The herald-angels sing (StF 202)
It came upon the midnight clear (StF 205)
*Like a candle flame, flickering small in our darkness (StF 176)
O little town of Bethlehem (StF 213)
Psalm 96
Hymns echoing psalmist’s theme
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! (StF 330)
Sing we the King who is coming to reign (StF 185)
When a young unmarried couple (StF 220)
Titus 2: 11-14
*Love came down at Christmas (StF 210)
Night of peace: hail the holy child (StF 211)
Luke 2: 1-20
Angels, from the realms of glory (StF 190) vv.1&2
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed (StF 191)
Child of joy and peace (StF 194)
Cradled in a manger, meanly (StF 197)
Glory be to God on high (StF 199)
God is born among us (StF 200)
Good news, good news to you we bring (StF 201)
Heaven’s come so close tonight website only
I had a dream that I was standing on a hillside (StF 203)
In the bleak midwinter (StF 204)
It was on a starry night (StF 206)
Let me tell you about a baby (StF 209)
Let my Saviour sleep website only
*Like a candle flame, flickering small in our darkness (StF 176)
*Love came down at Christmas (StF 210)
Once in royal David’s city (StF 214)
See, amid the winter’s snow (StF 215)
See him lying in a bed of straw (StF 216)
Silent night, holy night (StF 217)
We see the eyes of Mary shine (StF 219)
While shepherds watched their flocks by night (StF 221)
Who would think that what was needed (StF 222)
A prayer that we may give welcome to others
Dear Lord, we come to you in prayer, seeking your guidance to help us to continue to make our churches places of welcome and acceptance.
We know so many people of all ages are lonely and long to belong.
We want to build church families of all ages, who worship together with joy.
We need always to put prayer at the heart of all our planning and action.
Help us to sing a new song that tells of your love, by always listening and learning to become receptive to new ideas that translate into loving action in our neighbourhoods. Amen.
Eileen Simmons, Anna Chaplain and local preacher, Leigh on Sea
A prayer that God's grace may work through us - Alternative Prayer
Be the beginning, O God, of all our good, the wellspring of all our love and the source of all our freedom. Let your grace work in us, your will be done through us and your protection be over us. Amen.
Mary Ward (1585-1645)
Wednesday 24 December 2025
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined. (v. 2)