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Step back into the wonderful days when we all played card games and relive the fun of Top Trumps with our very own version “Hope Tumps”

Featuring all the characters from the story of the first Christmas – including some you might not expect! You can download our game FREE and print it onto card (back to back printing will ensure they look best), cutting each card out to form a pack. Then give the packs away to your families to play at home over the Christmas holidays. 

This game is a great age leveller and so a wonderful way to encourage intergenerational connections in your church over advent. You could give out packs to your congregation and have a “Trump-Off” competition at the end of a service. ..be careful how you explain that title though, you could end up with a very different take on how to win!  

Welcome to Gingerbread and Generosity 2025 – Houses of Hope!

We are so thrilled to launch this initiative in partnership with Bishops Appeal and (South American Mission Society (SAMS).

It is our hope that, by using the packs below, you will be able to host a Houses of Hope event where families and individuals are invited to learn about the two projects in South America whilst having fun together decorating gingerbread houses.

Here are just a few ways you might use this pack:

• Host a gingerbread decorating event – perfect for Messy Church or a post-service gathering with snacks and festive cheer. You can make it a donation-based event or charge a small fee to support Bishops’ Appeal.
• Use one of the included services—either our Advent-themed service or the “Jesus is the Light of the World” Christingle option. During the service, you can take up a collection and hand out family packs for at-home fun.

No matter how you choose to use this pack, we hope families will upload a photo of their gingerbread creations and enter our Houses of Hope competition, with a chance to win one of two £50/€50 One4All vouchers!

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Watch the video below to learn more about how your support impacts children and families in South America.

You can also copy the link to show this video at your Church event. 

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The Jesse Tree has served as a meaningful tradition for many years, allowing us to delve into God’s Big Story from Creation to the birth of Jesus. We’ve designed 24 snow globes as an innovative way to engage with the Jesse Tree, perfect for families at home, or for use in schools and churches.

You can create globes that serve as windowsill or table displays, or cut them out without tabs, adding a hole at the top to hang them from a tree in the traditional Jesse Tree style.

Each globe features an edited verse from the story, a picture to be coloured in, a simple question for discussion, and a brief reflection that encourages the group to pray together.

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This is a new resource you can give to your families or school, offering a fun alternative to the pesky Elf!  

Hide and Speak is an advent challenge that tells the whole Christmas story day by day. Every day from December 1st adults hide the relevant card along with a treat of choice – chocolate, fruit or whatever the child loves. The child seeks out the card, reads the verse and enjoys the treat. You could even involve the Elf in the hiding if you wanted!

The cards can then by stuck or hung up on a wall or the fridge so that by December 24th the whole story can be read together.

Follow these simple steps:

Take your Pringles pot and cover it with paper – you could use wrapping paper or plain paper and then the children can decorate the outside too.

Using permanent pens the children can draw whatever design they wish. Darker colours will show up better than light. Remember if you are writing that your words need to be backwards in order to project the correct way around on the wall – we forgot this!

Pop a torch into the tube, turn off the lights and the children will love to see their designs on the wall

Using nature as part of loose parts play has really caught on over recent years and it can be a fantastic – not to mention very cheap! – way to engage children as you talk about Bible stories. Muddy Church, GodVenture. Messy Church and many others have ways in which you can use nature to encourage wondering discussions. You can do this all year round of course, but it can be a particularly great tool to use during big events like Christmas, Easter, Lent etc.

Here you can watch Lydia explaining a simple way to use the nature story board with children and adults of all ages:

Taking a simple old game and making it new! This game requires little prep and can be done even with just one child.

Having read the nativity story, place a variety of characters from the nativity either ornaments or printed, place them on a tray and allow the children to view them, touch them and identify who is who. Then cover with a cloth so none can be seen and without showing the children, remove a character. Lift the cloth and ask the children to guess who is missing.

When they have identified the missing character chat together about what you each know about them – what part did they play in Jesus’ arrival? Wonder together about how this character would have felt when Jesus was born, how did their life change? Return the character to the tray and go again until you have chatted about all the characters on the tray.