Christmas 2012 Gift List for Kids

Christmas is the most exciting holiday for kids.  Christmas decorations, holiday meals and Christmas songs fills the air. Santa Claus and his splendid reindeers are everywhere to give joy and smile from toddlers to kids.  How can they forget the candy canes, the mistle toes and multi-colored treats given by friends. Even Dad will spend time buying gifts.  That's how special Christmas is. Below is a Christmas 2012 gift list for kids which they would love to receive.

1)  The Tales of the Kingdom offers fast-paced action and exciting storytelling with a enduring Christian message. Enjoy the beautiful, full-color illustrations as these classic allegories teach kids and adults the importance of trusting God as they unveils fundamental truths about good and evil.

2)  Tales of the Resistance  contains 12 stories about Hero's participation in the underground taxi resistance against the evil Enchanter, challenger to the one True King. High drama unfolds as everywhere Hero turns there are suffering people in need of his help! You'll meet Carny, Doubletalk, Sewer Rat #1, the Boiler Brat and the Most Beautiful Player of All. And you'll feel the tension of Traffic Court and the Burning Place. But mostly, your readers will be reminded that God's Kingdom is all around us, if we care to find it, and that the presence of the King dispels all darkness from our hearts and souls.

3)   In Tales of the Restoration, the long awaited conclusion in the Kingdom Tales trilogy, the one True King has broken the reign of the evil Enchanter and the restoration has begun. You'll meet Grandma Vigilantes, the Girl with the Very Loud Outside Voice, along with beloved friends Little Child, the Princess Amanda, Hero, and others. Each character is learning how to find a special place in Bright City, to do a job no one else can do.

This Christmas 2012 Gift List for Kids are also available  at Amazon

Christmas 2012 Calendar

The Seasoning the Season Advent Calendar carries your creative, attention-grabbing sermons and worship services into congregation members' day-to-day lives. It contains devotional pages to keep them focused on Christ each day throughout Christmastime, Practical Suggestions for putting your sermon topic into practice,  Discussion Questions to get them talking about your sermon after the Sunday service is over, plus Candlelighting Ceremonies to bring a time-honored, Christ-centered tradition into the home.

This Christmas 2012 Calendar is available at the Mainstay Ministries website.  Click here to order

Amazing Emmanuel: Photo CD-ROM

"A picture is worth a thousand words. . . ." This is especially true in worship, where image speaks so much more than simply the words of sermon or music alone. Enhance your presentation of God's Word this Christmas season with this Worship Photo CD from Mainstay Ministries. Included on this CD-ROM are full-color images for each Sunday service of the new Christmastime resource The Amazing Emmanuel that can help the people of your church focus on Christ at Christmastime! Use this photo CD for PowerPoint presentations or have attractive overhead transparencies made. Click here to order.

Christmastime Devotional Calendar

Our delightful tabletop Advent Calendar is coordinated closely with your five Sunday preaching themes. It includes daily scripture readings and prayers that drive your messages home, plus an array of suggestions for implementing what you preach. It primarily aims at helping your church families focus on Christ at Christmastime through simple, yet effective, personal and family suggestions. Instructions are also included for four simple home Advent celebrations.  Visit the Mainstay Ministries website or call 1-800-224-2735 to order.

Christmas 2012 Devotional Calendars

These Christmas 2012 Devotional Calendars from Mainstay Ministries begins on Advent Sunday 1 and continues beyond December 25 through the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas. It includes the inspirational theme for each week, short scriptures and devotionals to read, practical family suggestions, and Advent candle lighting ceremonies for both youngsters and adults. Order one per family. These are great gifts to give out at Thanksgiving Sunday to get people focusing on Christ throughout all December.  Click here to order.

From Humbug to Hallelujah! Devotions for December Calendar

Examine a December Devotional Calendar and be quickly convinced that this is something all the families in your congregation should have--particularly so if you're church is using the "From Humbug to Hallelujah!" Christmas sermon series.

It follows daily the "From Humbug to Hallelujah!" themes you will be preaching on Sundays, but doesn't require a lot of extra effort on the part of your people. Even so, it will keep them focused on Christ so that when Christmas has come and gone, they won't feel like Jesus got short-changed.  This Christmas 2012 devotional calendar is available at the Mainstay Ministries.  You can also call us at 1-800-224-2735. 

What are You Preaching on the Sunday before Thanksgiving?

To many people in America Thanksgiving will simply be an extended weekend of hearty eating, watching parades and football on TV. Some will celebrate the holiday without thanking God for His blessings, or remembering the rich Christian heritage of thanks that our Founding Fathers gave us.

Few of us will be reminded that Christianity shaped all aspects of the Pilgrim's lives, and that thanking God for his many blessings would have been an integral part of their thanksgiving festival.

Mainstay's Thank You, Lord! Preacher's Package will help you encourage your church to place a thankful spirit squarely into the center of your thanksgiving Holiday. Our Thanksgiving Preacher's Package not only imparts references to the well-known Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving, but it also presents other not-so-well-known items of thankful interest.

Click here to avail this 2012 Thanksgiving Sermon Series.