{"id":12078,"date":"2013-11-15T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:23:57","slug":"free-christmas-resources-for-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/free-christmas-resources-for-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Christmas resources for churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a round up of previous articles and resources we&#8217;ve made available for Christmas. We&#8217;ll be adding to these in the coming weeks as well as rediscovering a few old favourites (Christmas Carol Massacre anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime do feel free to explore these resources and please put links to any others you find online in the comment box below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/free-worship-resource-advent-meditation\/\">Advent meditation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/foy-vance-duke-special-salvation-army\/\">Foy Vance and Duke Special<\/a> join the Salvation Army in a rendition of O Holy Night<\/p>\n<p>Free Christmas songs\u00a0\u2013 MP3s, videos and sheet music for contemporary carols<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/chocolate-christmas-wonderful-kids-nativity-talk-script\/\">Chocolate Christmas<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 children\u2019s nativity talk script with a chocolatey theme<\/p>\n<p>Social Network Christmas\u00a0\u2013 the nativity retold according to Facebook (video clip)<\/p>\n<p>Christmas video loops\u00a0\u2013 fabulous free seasonal backgrounds for your services<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/beautiful-christmas-images-free-for-use\/\">Free static images<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 beautiful static seasonal images<\/p>\n<p>Ipad Christmas carol band\u00a0\u2013 carols on ipads<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/advent-purple-ribbon-reflection\/\">Advent purple ribbon reflection<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 activity helping to consider the real meaning of Christmas<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/advent-candle-iturgy\/\">Advent liturgy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 contemporary liturgy on the theme of light<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Brand new carol \u2013 free song from Dunn &amp; Wilt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/free-contemporary-carol\/\">Brand new carol\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; free song from Dunn &amp;Wilt<\/p>\n<p>Bethlemian Rhapsody\u00a0\u2013 the nativty retold with puppets using Queen\u2019s Bohemian Rhapsody<\/p>\n<p>Christmas flashmob<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/jingle-bells-hallelujah-chorus-mashup\/\">Jingle Bells Hallelujah Chorus mashup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/merry-xmas-are-we-taking-the-christ-out-of-christmas\/\">Merry Xmas<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 are we really taking the Christ out of Christmas?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/creative-advent-idea-that-involves-the-church-wider-community\/\">Creative Advent idea<\/a>\u00a0involving the church and the wider community<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/does-xmas-really-mean-excluding-christ-from-christmas\/\">Does Xmas really mean excluding Christ from Christmas?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/alternativity\/\">Alternativity<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fantastic new contemporary nativity set as a musical.<\/p>\n<h2>Christmas carol backing tracks<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p>10 contemporary recordings of Christmas carols as MultiTrack Pro Wav backing tracks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/angels-from-the-realms-of-glory-backing-track.html\">Angels We Have Heard On High\/Angels From The Realms of Glory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/christmas-offering-baloche-multitrack-backing-track.html\">Christmas Offering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/hark-the-herald-angels-multitrack-backing-track.html\">Hark The Herald Angels Sing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/joyful-joyful-backikng-track-brenton-brown.html\">Joyful Joyful<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/unspeakable-joy-to-the-world-chris-tomlin-multitrack.html\">Joy To The World<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/o-com-all-ye-faithful-multitrack-backing-track.html\">O Come All Ye Faithful<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/o-come-emmanuel-multitrack-backing-track.html\">O Come O Come Emmanuel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/holy-night-multitrack-backing-track.html\">O Holy Night<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/silent-night-multitrack-pro-wav-ableton-session-file.html\">Silent Night<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/the-first-noel-multitrack-backing-track.html\">The First Noel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus we have Cathy Burton\u2019s beautiful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/index.php\/multitrackprostems\/immanuel-cathy-burton-wav-ableton-stem.html\">Immanuel<\/a>\u00a0which, whilst not a carol, clearly could be used at Christmas services.<\/p>\n<h2>Christmas gifts for worship musicians<\/h2>\n<p>Check out our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/other\/musicademy-gift-voucher.html\">Gift Vouchers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course any of our DVDs make great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chunkfunk.co.uk\/clients\/musicademy\/Cybersale_xmas.html\">Christmas gifts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a round up of previous articles and resources we&#8217;ve made available for Christmas. 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