This Week's Program
Celebrating Christ's Birth
In our second week of Shaping Families’ Christmas specials,we share original Christmas stories from our staff and speakers, a handful of favorite carols, and several key scripture passages of the season. We invite you to share these programs freely: download and use for personal meditation, for a group, or a family Christmas Eve or Christmas Day worship and reflection time.
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“A Cappella Christmas” – CD with music of the internationally-renowned Mennonite Hour Singers. Original recordings digitally re-mastered. Songs include: Joy to the World; Hark the Herald Angels Sing; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; While by My Sheep; Angels We Have Heard on High; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Shepherds, Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep; And the Shepherds Said One to Another; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Silent Night; and many more.Related Resources
Shaping Families is produced by Third Way Media staff on behalf of the Mennonite churches. See ThirdWayMedia.org for staff photos and more information.
Listen to a Christmas greeting from Mennonite Mission Network (our parent organization), with a cappella music from the Mennonite Hour singers.
More audio Christmas specials: Two 30-minute programs, “Some Children See Him” and “Jesus: The Man” along with 90-second mini programs straight from Nazareth, Israel, with stories related to Jesus’ birth and growing up days in Nazareth. Listen, download or read the scripts for more Christmas meditation material.
Burton's Blog
An Unexpected Gift
Burton Buller
Next Week
We begin a new year next week on Shaping Families – our second year of production. We will re-use one of our favorites from last year: “Hope for Drug Addiction” featuring a young woman, Jodi, telling how her parents-in-law were life savers for her and her child.
Favorite Family Recipes
Cheeseball
Try this cheeseball for your New Year's Eve party. Kimberly received a cheeseball from a good friend, enjoyed it so much she asked for the recipe, and now passes it on to Shaping Families readers.
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