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Serving Opportunities

One of the best ways for your family to be intentional in this season is to place your focus on others around you (and not just on the gifts you will get on Christmas morning). We have an exciting opportunity for your family be intentional. Keep reading!

Compassion International

This year, Park Near North is going to share one way that your family can make a life-changing impact in the life of another, and that is through child sponsorship with Compassion International. We will be hearing more about Compassion International throughout the Advent Season in our worship gatherings with an opportunity to choose a child to sponsor during our Christmas Celebration on Friday, December 13th or after service on Sunday, December 15th.

Begin praying now about how your family might take part in this incredible opportunity to lift a child from poverty and change their life. If you have any questions, reach out to Joanna Kitchener.

Advent Resources

There are many ways to celebrate the anticipation and arrival of King Jesus this Advent at Near North and at home. 
See our special service times below, and look to the right to find a few other ways you can lead your family intentionally through this Advent Season.

SPECIAL SERVICE TIMES

A Christmas Celebration
Friday, December 13th 
6:00pm
Near North Auditorium
Desserts & Hot Cocoa
to follow on the 2nd floor.

Christmas Eve Center-Region Service
Tuesday, December 24th
6PM Service
Hosted at the Near North Location
No Loop Kids Provided

Sunday Center-Region Service
Sunday, December 29th
10AM Service
*Lincoln Park Location
(2233 N Clark St)
No Loop Kids Provided
*Note the location change.

Park's Jesse Tree Advent Family Devotional

A Jesse Tree is a way of preparing for Advent by journeying through the stories on Jesus’s family tree. Each day of Advent, read a Bible story about someone on Jesus’s family tree and hang an ornament symbolizing the story on your Jesse Tree.

Designed for individuals and families alike, this printed book from our church includes a set of ornament coloring pages that provide a tangible Scripture experience as we countdown to Christmas Day. Buy the book here. If you already have the book but need additional coloring pages, feel free to download them here. 

Tiny Theologian Card Set

This set of ABC Cards helps your kids understand what the holiday season is all about: Jesus! With simple and concise definitions on each card and gospel-centered conversation prompts, you and your family can make the month of December all about Jesus. 

Fisher-Price Nativity Playset

A favorite in our household, we love pulling this out year after year and retelling the story of Jesus' arrival. Read Luke 2 as a family while playing with this set. 

The Shepherd on a Search Devo

A 25-day family devotional where you journey with a Shepherd to find Christ in Christmas in the days leading up to Christmas morning. Purchase online here. 

Advent Chain Activity

Cut 25 strips of paper. On each strip, write one Scripture reference (you can use this list here). Staple the ends of the paper together, linking them together to form a chain. Each day remove one strip and read that verse. It will become exciting to visually see how much closer Christmas is coming as you count down the days and the chain grows shorter!

Seek and Find | Board Book

Young children will love interacting with the Christmas story as they find, count, and sort over 450 hidden things in this large-format board book. They will learn key truths about the first Christmas through the biblically faithful illustrations and retellings of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth.