Christmas Program Guide
Looking Forward to Christmas
A Christmas Program utilizing Karen Meyer’s Looking Forward to Christmas
Children may wear Biblical type clothing, or their regular clothing for the following parts. Parts may be combined.
(Insert readings from LOOKING FORWARD TO CHRISTMAS as noted.) An adult reader should read the parts from the book.
Speaker: God has fulfilled His promise! (spoken loudly)
Speaker: Our Savior has been born! (spoken loudly)
Speaker: An angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds.
Speaker: The glory of the Lord shone around them. They weren’t expecting anything like that.
Speaker: They must have been afraid because they were told not to be afraid.
Speaker: What did they hear?
Speaker: “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born!”
Speaker: The people had been waiting for a LONG time for this.
Speaker: Long ago Adam and Eve were told a Savior would come.
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: To rescue them from their sins — and to rescue us from our sins. This is the BEST reason to celebrate Christmas! Jesus came to atone for our sins!
Speaker: God ALWAYS keeps His promises. Adam and Eve’s third son, Seth, became an ancestor of the promised Savior.
Speaker: You can read that Seth was part of the genealogy of Jesus in Luke, chapter three (3), verse thirty-eight (38). (Read p.10 in Looking Forward to Christmas)
Speaker: Noah is part of the genealogy, too. His name can be found in Luke also, in chapter three (3) verse thirty-six (36. (Read p.12 in Looking Forward to Christmas)
Speaker: The people who lived during the Old Testament times waited a LONG time for the Savior to come. Abraham was promised that many nations would come from his seed. (Read p. 13 in Looking Forward to Christmas)
Speaker: That means that all people from every nation who believe in Jesus are sons of Abraham. St. Paul tells us this in Galatians, chapter three (3), verse seven (7).
Speaker: So, there was Isaac, Abraham’s son. (Read p. 14) And Jacob, Isaac’s son, (page 15) and Joseph, Jacob’s son, who is considered a type of Christ because he forgave the sin of his brothers against him, just as Jesus forgives us.
Speaker: And look how God used Moses to lead His people out of Egypt. Moses prayed for the people, but a greater prophet than Moses was coming: Jesus, who sits at the right hand of God is pleading for us.
Speaker: There is much more about Moses: (page 16 thru 20)
Speaker: Do you remember when the pastor says, at the end of the service: “The Lord bless you and keep you”? God appointed Moses’s brother, Aaron, and his sons, to be priests for the people.
Speaker: God told Moses to tell Aaron to say this blessing to the people. You can find it in Numbers, Chapter six (6), beginning with verse twenty-four (24)
Speaker: The Lord wants to bless you.
Speaker: He wants to shine His face upon you.
Speaker: He wants to be gracious to you.
Speaker: He wants to lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Take these words to heart.
Speaker: A baby born in Bethlehem was predicted by Isaiah in chapter seven (7), verse fourteen (14), “Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,” which means God with us. (page vi)
Speaker: Luke tells us that God sent Gabriel to Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, who was of the house of David.
Speaker: David is part of the genealogy of Jesus and Joseph, too. So many people were waiting for the birth of Jesus. (page 29 and 30)
Speaker: Gabriel told Mary, a virgin, just what Isaiah said—that she would conceive and bear a son.
Speaker: Gabriel told Mary to give him the name, Jesus, because “he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew, chapter one (1), verse twenty-one (21)
Speaker: “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.”
Speaker: The child will be holy.
Speaker: God has had mercy on us and sent Jesus to be our Savior. We rejoice again and again on Christmas day. Our Salvation has come – the Light of the World.
Speaker: Let us rejoice and sing Mary’s song of praise, the Magnificat. (or another Christmas hymn).
AFTER THE HYMN: A Speaker reads page 23 in Looking Forward to Christmas.