3 Ideas To Build Your Family Team This Christmas
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Christmas is one of the most approachable ways to start building your family team.
It's one of the few things that still has SOME semblance of meaning to us here in the west, as long as you look a little past the commercialization of it.
That's why we think it's an amazing opportunity to start to build lifelong family traditions, to start to coalesce as a true family team, and to bless one another as you all share in the excitement and blessing of Christ's birth.
In this episode, Jeff talks about some of the plays he's included in this month's Accelerator Playbook, which you can get right now by signing up for The Family Teams Accelerator (link below)!
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:14 Why Jeff loves Christmas so much
4:01 Create a Family Tradition That Lasts
7:06 Church calendar and light
10:12 Scripture to find Advent meaning
13:01 Family teams gift giving
17:20 Roles for kids
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| 0:00.0 | right after Thanksgiving, there is a moment before everything gets crazy, before there's tons of |
| 0:04.5 | stress where you can decide, like, let's actually put some intentionality. How does our family |
| 0:08.7 | want to keep this holiday this year? And what are some things we want to add or try? And then just |
| 0:13.3 | be an intentional family and make your Christmas tradition unique to how God's made your family. |
| 0:19.3 | And so these are just ways of stirring up those ideas. |
| 0:22.7 | Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational |
| 0:28.6 | team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. |
| 0:34.2 | Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about |
| 0:38.5 | all things family. Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. I got a special guest. I'm joined by Jeff |
| 0:43.6 | Bethke. Jeff and Alyssa are jumping into the accelerator for the month of November. So you |
| 0:50.0 | guys are listening to this probably October. You're starting to see the weather change, and we are getting all psyched about Christmas. |
| 0:57.3 | And Jeff, we were making fun of you on last week's podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | You tend to do Christmas a little early. |
| 1:01.8 | Is that, are you still doing that? |
| 1:03.6 | So, yeah, I mean, we've already decorated for Christmas since six months ago. |
| 1:07.3 | So we usually around my birthday, which is in June. |
| 1:09.7 | No, I'm joking. |
| 1:10.5 | We do go early. So we usually around my birthday, which is in June. No, I'm joking. We do go early. So we're ready. |
| 1:13.8 | Yes. |
| 1:14.6 | Give me like a little bit of why do you |
| 1:18.1 | appreciate Christmas more than the average, |
| 1:20.7 | maybe the average Christian dad? |
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