Free resources for Advent and Christmas in the AChurchNearYou.com Resource Hub

The AChurchNearYou.com Resource Hub is a one-stop shop for free images, videos and resources. For Advent and Christmas, we have updated the Resource Hub with Advent, Christmas and The Joy of Christmas related assets.

This year we have added more than 500 individual resources with a range of different formats for each resource that can be downloaded and customised. We hope that by providing different formats, this will make the resources accessible and easy to use for more people. If you are a Canva.com user, there are also links to some of the resources, so you can start customising them straight away in Canva.

Visit the Hub and download free resources now.

What resources are available for Advent and Christmas

In the AChurchNearYou.com Resource Hub, you can download:

• AChurchNearYou.com cover and feature images: These images have been created to specifically fit as a cover image on your church or benefice homepage or as a feature image on your services and events or news stories.

• Advent activity and colouring sheets: Two sets of activity and colouring sheets are available to download for children or youth groups.

• Advent and Christmas icons for this year’s theme: The Joy of Christmas. We hope you will find these icons useful when creating visual content for your church or benefice. Whether it be for flyers, posters, or adding services and events to your AChurchNearYou.com site, there are various options to mark different events and themes.

• Advent poster and social media customisable templates: Advent specific posters and social media templates available in different colours and formats to celebrate your Advent services.

• Canva Christmas card: Christmas card templates that can be downloaded or customised in Canva.

• Christmas messaging templates are images which can be shared on your social media or elsewhere with your church community.

• Digital giving resources: Advent and Christmas provide a powerful opportunity to encourage giving in your church. To help churches make the most of this season, the Digital Giving Team have created templates and images that you can use to encourage giving opportunities.

• Flyer templates: Use our ‘What’s On’ and ‘Keep in Touch’ customisable templates to create flyers you can hand out at your Advent and Christmas services. Encourage those visiting for the first time to stay in touch with you or sign up to your mailing list or provide them with a handy guide to what else is coming up in the future.

• Logos and brand guidelines: Available in various formats for both print and digital use. Logo packs for digital and print in PNG, JPG and EPS format are available to download now. The brand guidelines are designed to assist churches and organisations in making the most of the spectacular The Joy of Christmas branding, including colour palettes and approved fonts.

• Poster service invitations: This year we have included more tailored templates for your services throughout Advent and Christmas, which include posters for your carol services, Midnight Mass services and other key services around this time of the year.

• Poster and PowerPoint templates: Customisable templates in different formats and colours to create your own PowerPoint or Poster designs.

• Social media cover and event images: Provides cover and event images for your Facebook and X accounts.

• Social media customisable templates: Includes customisable templates for your Instagram, Instagram stories and X accounts.

• Social media service invitations: Customisable social media templates for your services throughout Advent and Christmas.

Other resources in the AChurchNearYou.com Resource Hub you may find useful for Advent and Christmas include:

• Free stock photography: Other Advent and Christmas images to use across your church’s digital and print platforms can also be found under the free stock photography section in the Resource Hub.

• Advent and Christmas music: The Church of England, working with St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Royal School of Church Music, is delighted to provide music for you to use at Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. There are over 100 Advent and Christmas music tracks free for you to download.

How to download the resources

In the Downloads options box, tick to agree to terms and conditions of use.

• If you only want some of the resources, tick the boxes next to the items you wish to download and then choose 'I only want the checked assets' in the Download options box.
• If you want to download all, use the option choose 'I want all these assets' in the Download options box.

Click download to begin the download.

For information on how to browse and download Advent and Christmas resources on AChurchNearYou.com, watch this video.

Or learn how you can get the Advent and Christmas brand guidelines and assets from AChurchNearYou.com to make a brand kit in Canva.

How to access the resources from the AChurchNearYou.com Resource Hub

Register here and then you’ll be able to log in and access the Resource Hub.

If you go on to complete a further step to say which church you want to edit; you can become an editor too. But if you just complete the registration step you get access to the Resource Hub only.

More information on how to become an editor.