Booklets

This 2025© Asbury Advent and Christmastide Devotionals Booklet presents daily meditations from the hearts of members and friends of Asbury United Methodist Church. They are personal musings about their relationship with the Living Lord, written down to share with each of us. It is a collection of love stories. Asbury’s friends include: Kari Bartkus (First Brethren Church, Huntington, Indiana); John Berry (Georgianna Church, Merritt Island, Florida); Rebecca Carpenter (Northland Church, Longwood, Florida); Kevin Chaplin (St Marks Methodist Church, Edgemead, Cape Town, South Africa); Nancy Ebersole (First Baptist Church Tangerine, Florida); Mike Evans (Midsomer Norton Methodist Church, United Kingdom); Brenda Fink (Glory Fire Church in Lake Mary, Florida); Robin Hardway (Summit Church Orlando, Florida); Ann Gile (Sunnyside Chapel, Sarasota, Florida); Danielle Martin (Northside Presbyterian Church, Melbourne, Florida); Barbara Moss (College Heights UMC, Lakeland, Florida); Marti Pieper (Former Editor, Seneca Baptist Church, Seneca, South Carolina); Dr Shane Ryle (Chaplain, Recovery Ministry Coordinator, Orlando Union Rescue Mission Project Hope); Mary Schilling (Grace Bible Church, Sebring, Florida); and Jean Whiting (Henfield Evangelical Church, United Kingdom). The Advent and Christmastide Devotionals are also available on-line at www.asburyadvent.com and are sent daily via email to those on Asbury’s email list. For those who do not have access to the internet, copies will be available in the church, or can be mailed on request. For international ministries, including El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, United Kingdom and South Africa, copies are sent via email.

The Advent and Christmastide Devotionals are also available on-line at www.asburyadvent.com and are sent daily via email to those on Asbury’s email list. For those who do not have access to the internet, copies will be available in the church, or can be mailed on request. For international ministries, including El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, United Kingdom and South Africa, copies are sent via email.

Asbury’s devotionals outreach ministries in the US include: Florida Residing Hope (formerly United Methodist Children’s Home); Russell House; Central Florida Reception Center (men’s prison); Oasis Church at Lowell Correctional Institution (women’s prison); Cornerstone Church at Lake Correctional Institution (men’s prison); Orlando Union Rescue Mission Project Hope (homeless men); Orlando Union Rescue Mission Families (homeless women and families); Recovery House Sanford, Outreach Missions Sanford, Central Care Mission Orlando; Coalition for the Homeless (homeless women and families); and Student Ministries of Central Florida via the Wesley Foundation of Central Florida. In total, these devotionals reach more than 2,500 people.

If you are blessed by these devotionals, thank God for those who made them possible. If you feel inspired to write your own devotional, we invite you to prayerfully consider contributing to the 2026 Lenten Devotionals Booklet. The period for receipt of contributions for the 2026 Lenten Devotionals is from mid-December 2025 to Friday, January 9, 2026. Devotional contributions should be emailed to Asbury United Methodist Church, Maitland, or mailed to the church office. For further information, please contact the church office, or David Vatcher at David Vatcher, or by cell phone at 407 616 8514.

Enjoy these Advent and Christmastide Devotionals and feel free to share them with a friend, a neighbor, or anyone who you think might be blessed by reading them. Show kindness always and make every day in Advent and and Christmastide a blessed day for someone else.

David Vatcher