Christmas is an amazing opportunity for your church to reach people in your community. People who haven’t been to church in months will show up. Families will invite friends. Online attendance will spike. Everything your church does in December, from the kids classroom to the Sunday message to your social media, has the potential to introduce someone to Jesus for the first time.
The good news is you don’t have to build any of it from scratch. Open Network has dozens of free Christmas resources across every area of ministry. We’ve pulled them all together in one place so your team can find what they need and start preparing.
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Christmas Planning
Before anything else, download the Christmas Made Simple guide. It packages everything you need in one place — sermons, worship sets, kids curriculum, creative assets, communication strategies, and excellence checklists. It’s the single best place to start your Christmas planning.
- Christmas Services Made Simple — your all-in-one Christmas planning guide with checklists, resources, and strategies
- Christmas Online Experience Blog — how to make your online Christmas service just as excellent as your in-person one
Message Series
Every one of these Christmas message series comes fully resourced with message videos, transcripts, sermon notes, and discussion guides. Use them as-is or adapt them for your context.
- The Arrival — a Christmas series on hope and peace
- Fear Not — a Christmas series on faith and overcoming fear
- Holy Moments — a Christmas series on boldness and presence
- He Will Be Called — a Christmas series on loneliness and the names of Jesus
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Kids Ministry
Your kids ministry is one of the biggest reasons families will choose to come back after Christmas. Here are free, fully resourced Christmas curriculum options for every age group.
Early Childhood
- The First Christmas Gift: Celebrate Jesus — 4 Week — for preschool and early childhood, based on the Bible App for Kids curriculum
- The First Christmas Gift: Hope in Jesus — 4 Week — a four-week early childhood Christmas curriculum centered on the hope of Jesus
- The First Christmas Gift — Always With Us (1 Week) — a single-week standalone Christmas lesson for early childhood
- Bible Adventure Christmas Stories — free Christmas curriculum from Bible Adventure for preschool and early elementary
Elementary
- Celebrate — Konnect HQ — a Christmas episode of Konnect HQ celebrating the birth of Jesus with joy
- Jesus Is Born — an early childhood and elementary Christmas lesson for Crosstown curriculum
- LifeKids Christmas Medley — a worship medley for kids that celebrates the birth of Jesus
- Kids Winter Resources — a collection of Christmas and winter resources for kids ministry
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Worship
Free Christmas worship resources including songs, chord charts, stems, lyric videos, and motion loops — everything your worship team needs for Christmas Sunday.
- Carols Christmas Album and Stems — free downloadable Christmas carols with stems, chord charts, and WAV files including O Holy Night, Away in the Manger, What Child is This, and more
- Go Tell It (This is Amazing Grace) — a Christmas worship song with full stems and chord charts
- Hark! — a Christmas worship song with lyric video and chord charts
- O Holy Night — a classic Christmas worship song with full production resources
- Motion Loops: Christmas — Abstract Loops — free motion loop backgrounds for your Christmas services
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Creative and Graphics
Free Christmas graphics, photography, and social media assets ready to download and use across all your channels.
- Christmas 2025 Creative — the latest Christmas artwork and graphics package from Life.Church
- Christmas 2024 Creative — the 2024 Christmas artwork and graphics package
- Christmas Verse Images — shareable Christmas Scripture images from YouVersion for social media
- Christmas Stock Photography — free Christmas stock photos for use in your communications and social media
Browse all free Christmas creative assets
Online Ministry and Digital
Christmas is one of the highest-traffic Sundays for online church attendance. Here’s how to make your digital experience excellent.
- Church Online Platform — the free tool from Life.Church for hosting your online service with chat, prayer, and engagement features built in
- YouVersion for Churches — Feature Your Christmas Service — create your free Church Page in the Bible App and feature your Christmas service notes and plans for your congregation
Community Outreach
Christmas is also one of the best times of year to get your church out into the community. Here are free resources to help.
- Neighborhood Fall Fest Resources — if you haven’t already hosted one, a fall event is a great pre-Christmas community touchpoint
- Local Missions Resources — practical tools for serving your community this Christmas season through supply drives, serve days, and encouragement initiatives
What’s one thing you can do this week?
- Download the Christmas Made Simple guide and share it with your entire team as your master planning resource for the season.
- Pick one message series from the list above and download it today — get it in front of your teaching team before November.
- Download the Christmas curriculum for your kids ministry and give your children’s team a head start on planning.
- Set up your Church Online Platform account and your YouVersion Church Page so your digital Christmas experience is ready to go.
Christmas comes every year. The churches that win in December are the ones who start preparing in October. Everything you need is here, and it’s all free. Use it. Adapt it. Make it yours.
Let’s reach people together this Christmas.
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