Advent & Christmas Worship Resources

‘Advent’ means coming or arrival. During advent, we prepare for the coming of Christ at Christmas, and remember his first arrival on earth. It’s a time of longing and preparation. During Advent, we light candles to remember that Christ, the light of the world, is born into a world of darkness.

As a Christian response to global hunger, the Foodgrains Bank longs for a time when nobody is hungry. Through our members and partners, we want to bring light and hope to people around the world who don’t have enough to eat.

The worship resources below can help you and your church remember people around the world who are hungry during this Advent season.

Image: Women wait for a food distribution in Eritrea. 

Advent Worship Resources



Advent reflection


Come, Lord Jesus: reflecting on Advent and the Pakistan flood. How do you celebrate Advent after spending days with people who have lost everything to flooding? 

Christmas Worship Resources

At Christmas, we celebrate the coming of Jesus. As Christians, we rejoice in the hope of new life, including the hope that people will be fed—as Mary exclaimed in the Magnificat: God has “filled the hungry with good things.” The worship resources below will help you and your church celebrate this hope of enough food for all during the Christmas season.

Christmas and Advent Giving Project: Pakistan Flood Response

For the second year in a row, heavy monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Over five million people are affected, with 1.8 million people displaced from their homes. About 700,000 people are in refugee camps. The disaster comes a year after the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history; in 2010 one-fifth of the country was underwater, and over 20 million people were displaced.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank is responding to the crisis by supporting food distributions to people affected by the flood. Click here to learn how you or your church can remember people in Pakistan this Advent season.

"Take time to be aware that, in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehems of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present."  - Edward Hays, A Pilgrim’s Almanac