Advent and Christmas Resources

You can find information about the campaign and how to get involved on this page.

Below you will find all your resources, downloads and other assets.

Hush the Noise

Join the love song this Christmas

Christmas is loud, isn’t it? So much expectation. So many voices. Telling us how to celebrate, what to wear, what to eat and drink, what to watch and what to buy.

Instead, this Christmas we’re inviting everyone to hush the noise. To listen for the love song that the angels bring, this and every year. They sang it for the first time more than 2,000 years ago, on the midnight clear. They’re just waiting for us to join in.

What is the plan?

We'll be directing people to a special page on our website throughout Advent, over Christmas and up to Epiphany, where they'll be able to watch our Christmas film, sign up for daily Christmas reflections and find their local Methodist Church. We'll also be running a social media campaign that engages unaffiliated people online.

From September, there will be a number of products and assets available for Methodist communities to download or order for free to help them advertise and plan their Advent and Christmas services or events.

Keep in touch

Sign up to receive our digital resources and campaign updates email newsletter.

'How to get involved' webinar

A short exploration on how to use the resources and ideas to get involved, as well as Q&A, recording live on Thursday 5 September.

Please note that due to a recording issue, the presenters' webcams do not appear during screen sharing.

Church resources

These resources are available to download here, or order for free from Methodist Publishing. All links are provided below.

Worship resource

A package of worship resources for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, for you to plan your own services from.

Advent worship resource for children and young people

Session ideas for the first three weeks of Advent that work alongside the worship package, exploring the same themes and with more activities.

Advent candle liturgies

Used as a responsive prayer during the lighting of advent candles, includes liturgy from the first Sunday of Advent through to Epiphany, including a special liturgy for Blue Christmas.

Poster

Display outside your church to advertise your services and events.

Postcard invitations

Postcard invitations, with space to include details of your services and events, that also connect into the online campaign.

Downloadable design assets

Create your own print and digital designs using individual assets.

Social media graphics and captions

Download ready-made social media graphics to use across your social channels, or customise them through your own Canva account.

You can also download a suggested captions guide to use as text with these graphics, to help get you thinking about how to talk about your Advent and Christmas services and events on social media.

Weekly Advent discipleship gifts delivered via email

Sign up for our weekly Advent discipleship gifts, delivered via email, to keep church audiences spiritually fed throughout this busy time of year.

If you have already received our 2023 Advent/Christmas and 2024 Lent reflections, you'll automatically be sent our weekly Advent discipleship gifts this year.

Templates for Advent emails

Connexional campaign

The Connexional Team digital campaign focussess on reaching people open to faith or wanting to explore spirituality. Lots of this content will be delivered through paid advertising, which means church audiences are less likely to see it.

Our main call to actions for this campaign will be housed on the Hush the Noise campaign page.

Daily Christmas reflections

Sign up for our daily Christmas reflections, beginning on Christmas Eve, designed for unaffiliated people to explore this special time of year.

This will be a new sign-up list targeted at those open to exploring faith, available on the campaign page.

Connexion-wide social media campaign

Pointing people to local churches and digital journeys. Search on your favourite social media platform for Hush the Noise.

Follow us online: Facebook | Twitter/X | Instagram | Threads| TikTok | YouTube | LinkedIn

This will be running throughout December.

Christmas single and EP

After the popularity of our first ever Christmas single released last year, we'll be recording a new arrangement of It Came Upon the Midnight Clear to release across all streaming platforms, plus a second, bonus single.

We'll be making lyrics videos available for both carols, as well as chord sheets.

These will be available to stream and listen to from late-November.

Christmas Film

Connecting with people open to and exploring faith across the online world. The soundtrack will include a specially produced version of our Christmas single, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Dropping across our social media channels on Thursday 28 November.

Advent and Christmas Campaign Advisory Group

We're working with a group of people representing different roles across the Methodist Church in order to gather feedback and thoughts as we develop our 2024 Advent and Christmas campaign. This is the first year we've set up this group, which meets each month from June to October.

We're looking forward to building these campaigns more closely with people working in front-line roles in the future, and see this as a first step in this process.