The First Christmas Tree
Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7
Children's Sermon
by Edward G. Hunter

Object: Point to a Christmas tree that may be in the sanctuary, or bring a picture of a Christmas tree.

Do you know who first thought of the Christmas tree? No one knows for certain, but tradition tells us that Saint Boniface, a Catholic missionary in Germany in the eighth century, may have been the first one to pick the evergreen as a Christmas tree. He did so because the needles were always green, year round, and it represented the eternity of God to…

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