The Christmas Angels Mission

Share in this delightful Christmas tradition to highlight the true spirit of the Christmas season: giving back & being grateful. When God gives a new Christmas assignment, Gabe, a young angel, is charged with finding a family on earth to look after during the Christmas season. In the evenings, family members gather near the tree and tell Gabe what each is thankful for and a good deed each did that day. Every night, once the whole family is tucked into bed, Gabe and all the other Christmas angels fly to a special Cheer Meter and fill it with the kind acts and gratitudes of the day. Will the Cheer Meter be filled in time for Christmas? Read to find out! This heartwarming story is told in rhyme and is sure to get your family talking, realizing their everyday blessings and the importance of bestowing kind acts upon others.

Angel Wings presents comedic adventure with a biblical message. When a trio of young angels is sent to intervene in the lives of a group of human kids, protecting them from both physical and moral danger, the kids experience the consequences of negative character traits and realize the value of the corresponding positive traits. #2 Mission: Christmas Spirit “On My Honor” When Carl doesn't keep his promise to Joey, the Angels show Carl the difference between a conditional promise and a rock-solid yes or no promise. “Sticking to It” The kids try to raise money for a children's home but are thwarted at every turn. Only when they “stick to it” do they finally succeed. “Angels We Have Heard on High” While busy getting ready for the Christmas pageant, the kids get discouraged and want to cancel Christmas. It takes setting their eyes on Immanuel and the real meaning of Christmas to put things right. Approximately 35 minutes

Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice invites you to open your eyes, ears and hearts to your congregation. By listening to their stories you will not only find out who they are but help them to better claim whose they are. By studying the "texts" of your community, Mary Clark Moschella helps you to understand their "contexts." Moschella will inspire you through actual cases to be more prophetic and priestly in ministry. Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice will, in a step-by-step fashion, help you and your congregation to embrace change and celebrate transformation. This revised second edition incorporates new scholarship on qualitative methods in ethnographic research and their spreading application in seminaries, universities, and divinity schools. As Moschella writes in her reflection on the book fourteen years after the publication of the first edition: "The teaching and practice of qualitative research methods help shape new generations of religious professionals in respectful modes of disciplined inquiry, enabling practitioners to learn about and from the communities they serve." The revised edition includes two appendices by Steve Taylor and Ryan Juskus, respectively, that travel the trail of research blazed by the first edition of this book.

The stories you are about to read are fiction with some fictional characters. However, not all of the characters are fictional. You will find real history and actual places woven into these tales. The main characters in all of these stories are angels. Angels are mentioned at least 273 times in the Scriptures. The number of angels is incalculable. They are created spirit beings which are invisible unless they wish to be seen, and normally, that is in human form. They, like us, have free will. There are several different types of angels with different assignments to carry out. They all report to God, their Father. Today, it seems many Christian people only desire to believe in a God of love and not a God of vengeance and punishment. Yes, God is love, but He is other things as well. People seem to mistake God’s long-suffering for a change from His Old Testament persona to one that makes Him seem like a hippy of the 1960s. The Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I can’t visualize Him sitting on His throne making peace signs. He wasn’t a flower child in the Old Testament, so neither is He today. This book shows both a God of love and a God of justice. In this collection of stories as well as in the Bible, angels are sent to carry out His justice upon evildoers. In both this book and the Bible, angels are also sent to show His love for His children.

When two strangers appear during the annual MacDougal family Christmas celebration in the Blue Ridge Mountains, siblings Shayne, Morwenna, and Bobbie must band together to fend off the growing danger and figure out who they can trust.