--- title: "Andy's Story" date: 2019-10-31T18:01:00+00:00 author: Jacob Hilton canonical_url: "https://www.eauk.org/great-commission/stories/andys-story" section: Stories --- Great Commission is the Evangelical Alliance's evangelism and mission hub for stories that inspire and resources that equip us all to share Jesus. - [Great Commission](/great-commission) - [Stories](/great-commission/stories/all) - Andy's Story # Andy's Story #### Andy explains why Christmas is a great time to share the Christian message and connect with local schools through music [ ![Https vimeo com 242904021](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E) ![Https vimeo com 242904021](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E) #### Christmas | 0:00 ## 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message especially at Christmas My name's Andy This is my story So, for the last 20 something years we've been working with schools across Suffolk We've been getting them to record and film singing Christmas songs and raising money for Tearfund The three key aims we had with the projects are one is actually sharing Christian message at Christmas Two is fundraising and thirdly is strengthening those relationships between schools and churches and between different schools as well So, for me, Christmas seems to be the one season where people are still very open to the Christian message So much of people's expectation is set up to almost hear a message, so that build up to Christmas is absolutely the key time to be telling the Christmas story In terms of messaging, what we've tried to do is craft the Christmas story into accessible, small elements The last but one project was called "Waiting for Christmas" and it studied the five key characters in the Christmas story and how each of them was waiting for Christmas in a different way, so what we've been doing is using existing well known, traditional, seasonal Christmas songs but also writing a whole load of new songs that convey the truth of the Christian message through the message of Christmas and it's just been incredibly rewarding to hear thousands of children across this area singing those songs And my experience of the way the children react to being part of a media experience and being part of singing fun, up tempo songs has meant that those have been very, very good ways of gaining people's interest and engaging them and drawing them in Do what you can do and do it well because I think doing something that is credible is incredibly important and I've seen many things where people have tried to do things that are too adventurous and when you lose credibility I think that doesn't help sharing the message One of the amazing things that's been an outcome of the project is seeing some children and families get much 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