If you’ve ever read anything on this blog, you’ll know that we think the gospel really is wonderfully good news for both parents and children. And you’ll know that our mission is to help you (as well as ourselves!) keep the gospel central to everything. Advent and Christmas should be times of wonderful, joy-filled, gospel-saturated wonder. Very often, however, the gospel gets crowded out with everything else that’s going on.
Given this is the case, last year we launched a product called “Jesse Tree”, a wonderful tool to help keep excitement about Jesus at the centre of the Christmas period.
Jesse Tree ornaments date back hundreds of years, and are a bit like a Christian advent calendar. The name Jesse Tree comes from a prophesy in Isaiah 11. Each day through December in the run up to Christmas you can hang a Jesse Tree Ornament and read a section of the Bible with your child(ren) that points forward to the coming of Jesus.
Last year it was such a joy to see photos on facebook, twitter and instagram of families all over the world using their ornaments with their children to build anticipation for Christmas day.
Included in a Jesse Tree set are 24 ornaments which correspond to the first 24 chapters of the Jesus Storybook Bible*, or you can read along with the suggested passages from our Jesse Tree Guide, which comes free with your purchase. So every day, from December 1st, you will be able to fix your family’s eyes on the wonder of the coming of Jesus. You’ll be able to build expectation as you look at some of the wonderful ways that Jesus is anticipated throughout the Old Testamant, and you’ll enjoy the climax of the story as you read about the coming of Jesus, leading you right up to Christmas day.
A special discount for Gospel-Centred Parenting readers
These Jesse Tree ornaments would not exist if it wasn’t for you. The inspiration for making a product like this came after a year of writing our Christian parenting blog. After spending each week reflecting on how the gospel impacted our day-to-day messy lives (and specifically the area of parenting) we became excited about the opportunity to make something which would help families to read the Bible together and bask in the sunshine of the gospel together. Jesse Tree is the fruit of that dream.
As a reader of our blog, we’d love to offer you a discount.
Each ornament is hand-printed with ink on rustic hazel wood, and comes pre-strung. We can ship it to you wherever you live in the world. Last year we were thrilled to ship Jesse Tree sets to, among other places Greece, New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Canada (not to mention lots in the UK)! Sometimes international shipping can take several weeks, and so with that in mind we’d like to offer you free shipping until October 14th. This applies wherever you live in the world! This way, you should receive you set in time for December 1st.
Just use the code freedel for free domestic or international shipping. This offer is valid until October 14th.
We hope you love the design – we certainly do. We are blessed to be working alongside a brilliant designer from our church, Rory Henderson.
We’re also thrilled to be able to give 10% of profit to the work of Bible translation and distribution. This means that not only will your family enjoy this gospel-centred product, but you will also be contributing to work that will mean others around the world can gain access to the gospel too.
We have a number of colour options available – click through to our shop to see more images and place your order.
Our prayer is that your family will use these ornaments for many years to come. Through them, we hope that you will create some truly special memories that are recounted and repeated down the generations. And more importantly, our greatest prayer is that you will all grow in love for Jesus as you together see how (as the Jesus Storybook Bible* so memorably puts it) “every story whispers his name.”
We are a small business, and rely on people like you spreading the word about our Jesse Tree sets. Please would you share this post if you have friends who would benefit from this offer? Or better yet, why don’t you buy a set for their family as a Christmas gift? We (and they) would be super duper grateful!