In 2017, Words for Waiting began as a local-ish effort by campus ministers in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The next year, the UKirk Collegiate Ministries Association and the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Office of Christian Formation joined in, and we started welcoming contributors from across the country.
Here you’ll find daily reflections for the seasons of Advent and Christmas, created by ministers and college students connected to Presbyterian-supported campus ministries (with some other Church neighbors sprinkled in). They offer paragraphs, images, poetry, and prayer, to illuminate God’s presence with us and the ways we might respond to it.
Advent & Christmas 2025
What are the threads that connect us as people of faith, across time and place? Where is the torn fabric that needs mending, in our own communities and beyond? How does the promise of God’s presence guide the ways we live and learn and work and worship with one another?
We hope this year’s theme, Woven Together, will be a chance to reflect on the messy and beautiful and heart-wrenching work of being a person in the world (with other people!), and a chance to consider where God shows up along the way.
Thank you to our 2025 contributors, who come from these communities!
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