Just when Amanda needs advice about how to respond to the Christmas invite from her estranged family, she’s dropped right into a famous passage from Luke’s Gospel: the story of the Prodigal Son. The abrupt encounter reminds Amanda that the Father’s arms are always open and that above all else, Christmas is an opportunity to give and receive love.

Kendra, stressed about a Christmas gathering that’s grown way beyond its scope, starts to regret offering to host. When she suddenly transports into the kitchen of Elizabeth, the soon-to-be mother of John the Baptist, she gets a reality check that helps her to embrace the future with joy.

Angela, who’s commandeered the church’s Christmas play is about to livestream to her TikTok audience from backstage before the performance when Joseph, the husband of Mary walks into her feed. Confused by Angela’s elaborate outfit, camera and ring light, Joseph thinks he’s encountered another angel. A lesson about humility and service emerges in the humorous encounter.

The Arrival Series Script Bundle includes the following five scripts: “Arrival: Offering Gifts to Jesus”, “Arrival: Showing Christ Love Through Humble Service ”, “Arrival: Finding a Way Home This Christmas”, “Arrival: Learning What Matters Most to Jesus” and “Arrival: Craving Meaningful Connection at Christmas”.

Just when Archie needs a pep talk about purpose, he’s dropped right into a famous passage from the Christmas story and meets one of the Wisemen on the journey to Bethlehem. The abrupt encounter reminds Archie to look beyond material things and offer the gifts God’s given him in service to others.

A child learns that all the glory and gifts of worship belong to the true King, Jesus, who saves us from our sin.

This reader’s theater piece embodies the varied voices and thoughts of those who will attend Christmas Eve services. Poignantly poetic.

The plan that brought salvation to the whole world didn’t originate with the genius of men. God surprised the world with a dangerous plan. A lowly teenaged girl in Nazareth became an origin story for the first Advent, the first in a string of miracles that changed the world forever. Part of the Voices of Advent series, the script will help your community reimagine a famous passage of the Bible and experience the miracle of Christmas with renewed wonder. It can be performed as a monologue or read aloud in - person or online.

It’s Christmas in Herald and there’s nothing this small town loves more than its annual Christmas pageant...except maybe for their baseball team, the Herald Angels. So, when half the cast of the pageant comes down with laryngitis, it’s up to the beloved baseball players to save the day...if they can learn to sing, that is. But with their own invitation to play in the big city Winter Classic on the line, will the Herald Angels step in and sing? Or is the Christmas pageant doomed after all? This slice of small-town Americana will delight audiences of all ages and culminates in a beautiful reminder of what Christmas is all about.

After everything falls apart, George Bailey decides the world would be better he’d never been born, but when his wish comes true, he realizes that life really is worth living.

A family moves towards Christmas with a foot in each boat of past memories and current realities, all ending with a renewed sense of hope of the coming Savior.

In this Christmas play a feisty grandmother shares humorous and heartwarming stories with her grandchild instilling the love, joy, hope, peace, and light of the Christmas season along the way. This script is perfect for a Christmas Eve Service as it is broken up to include opportunities for music and/or lighting of individual Advent candles between each scene.

Our Actors explore their gift unwrapping styles while remembering to say “thank you” for the gift.

Gabriella, a clueless young angel , repeatedly tries to get Gabriel to help her learn choir music. Gabriel explains he is busy getting ready for a special mission for the Mighty One, While Gabriella initially sees this as exciting, she becomes frustrated when Gabriel is sent on four special missions...all to earthlings. Gabriella can't imagine why Gabriel has to leave heaven to go to earth, especially since he always returns with "dusty, musty earth vapors."

A short, performable poem that asks whether the angels were wrong to proclaim peace on earth when our world is still filled with hostility. This script can be used during Advent as the Candle of Peace is lit or as a Call to Worship or Benediction. It can also be used as an introduction for Advent/Christmas carols such as “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” “Hark ! The Herald Angels Sing,” “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” or “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”

A thought-provoking monologue in poetic form that reflects on the pain Father, Mother, and Son experienced as Jesus became “Emmanuel, God with us.”