So, What Are Your Christmas Eve Songs?

[AsburyMike]

Now that I've finished this weekends media I am now "officially" working on my Christmas Eve presentations. I imagine a lot of us are using the same same songs so I thought maybe there could be an exchange of ideas and images for songs.

Here is what I am looking at so far (I have more songs yet to be thrown at me);

O Come, All Ye Faithful
Away in a Manger
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Silent Night
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

So far I've made this for "O Come, All Ye Faithful".

http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showp...cat=513&page=1

We do a candle lighting at the end for "Silent Night" so I use a candle video from Sarti Design on that.

I'm going to be spending the next week brainstorming ideas and graphics for everything else. Won't you join me?!

[[Admin] osborn4]

There's a candle loop in the MXC you might want to take a look at:
http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showp...hp?photo=12623

The Star of Bethlehem is one of my favorite loops for Christmas
http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showphoto.php?photo=1420

There's really lots of good stuff, it's worth spending time just browsing through the Christmas and Advent section of the mxc

Here's a nice, really rich, manger background
http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showphoto.php?photo=1499

And this could work for Angels, We Have Heard on High
http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showp...o=8034&cat=513

[AsburyMike]

Yeah, I've been back and forth between using that candle loop and the one from Sarti Design. I'll probably finally make a decision right before services start.

Also, if anyone is doing "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" I did this background for it a few weeks back.

http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showp...cat=500&page=1

[Gene]

I originally did this as a background for a sermon theme slide, but subsequently used it for "O Come, O Come Emmanual" (we do two verses of that each Sunday in Advent). It would work well for "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" and others, and fits with the style of what you did for "O Come, All Ye Faithful".
http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showp...hp?photo=12616

Question on the "O Come, All Ye Faithful" image. The star has some aliasing like it was scaled up from something smaller. Is that intentional? In any event, a very nice image -- I like the style.

[AsburyMike]

Originally Posted by Gene

I originally did this as a background for a sermon theme slide, but subsequently used it for "O Come, O Come Emmanual" (we do two verses of that each Sunday in Advent). It would work well for "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" and others, and fits with the style of what you did for "O Come, All Ye Faithful".
http://www.churchmedia.net/MXC/showp...hp?photo=12616

Question on the "O Come, All Ye Faithful" image. The star has some aliasing like it was scaled up from something smaller. Is that intentional? In any event, a very nice image -- I like the style.

The star was done with a brush. I kicked up the brush size because it was too small. Thanks for the link.