One of the kinks that you tend to run into when you have a Sunday schedule like ours (i.e., visiting many churches/fellowships per month), is that of the holiday season. You have some groups which do a great job of trying to center their communities on the “holy” part of the holidays. Then, you have others who seem like they are doing everything they can to get rid of that materialistic mentality all-to-common for this time of year. IMO, if every church simply observed Advent, that might not be so hard to do.

So, one of the many items that I’ve kept my ears to the ground for in non-Catholic/Orthodox/Lutherian churches is how they go about Advent. Unfortunately, there’s not much of a mention of it. So, how about we help that out a bit?

Here are a few that I’ve found:

• Advent App (German)
• xt3’s Advent Calendar (seems Android only)
• Waiting in Joyful Hope (iOS, Android)

Now, you could simply just be publishing an Advent calendar via Google Calendar (hint, hint) and showing your community how to add this to their mobile devices, but these apps might make it a bit easier.

What are some of the applications or calendars that you folks are using for Advent to keep Christ’s evenutal coming in the front of the eyes of your communities?