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The Family Teams Podcast

How to Design a Christmas That ACTUALLY Centers on Jesus (12 Days Framework)

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Your family's Christmas traditions might be coasting on autopilot - some things you do because you've always done them, some events that just happen to you instead of being chosen intentionally.

What if this year you flipped the script and designed a December that actually centers on Jesus while creating memories your kids will carry into their own marriages?

Jeremy and April Prior break down their 12 Days of Christmas framework, from scripture-paired events to a family arts show that turns your living room into a gallery.

This isn't about adding more chaos to an already packed season...it's about saying yes to the right things and building annual traditions that your multi-generational family team will actually look forward to.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

3:13 How the Pryor's do Christmas

4:32 The 12 Days of Christmas framework

7:38 Dickens Brunch

10:00 Christmas movies with scripture

11:10 Christmas Eve

14:52 The Family Arts and Crafts Show

17:04 Why Christmas traditions are the gateway to more intentional family rhythms

18:57 Starting small and building traditions as your kids grow

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. April and I are here to talk to you guys about all things Christmas. You ready for this April?

0:08.2

Yes. Early, talk about Christmas?

0:10.7

Some, some years, yeah, but for some reason it feels good this year.

0:15.0

Yeah, just got cold today. Yeah, yes.

0:18.4

So in the month of November, we are going to talk about how to create a family team's Christmas, all the different ways. And because we want to give you guys time to do this, as you guys will discover, part of what we like to do is be kind of prepped in November for all the stuff that comes in December. And there's a lot of cool things that you can do as a family team to make

0:39.2

this a very meaningful tradition. So I'm going to start by just describing if you want to get our

0:45.4

free download, we have an awesome Advent reading plan for a family that takes you from December 1st

0:53.9

all the way to December 25th in chronological

0:56.8

order. So if you want that advent reading plan, you can go to family teams.com slash Christmas

1:03.2

and get that. So everything that we're going to be describing to you guys in this month's

1:07.7

accelerator, the month of November, is something that jeff and alissa

1:12.0

beth kee have created and they're going to be our coaches and they'll be on a podcast uh next week

1:17.9

maybe just jep or jeff and alissa but we're going to walk through their traditions so if you guys

1:22.0

are interested in in jumping into how they do christmas jep is christmas crazed um sometimes he puts his, I think, his Christmas tree up in

1:29.9

July or something just to get in the spirit. And we're very into this as well. And so we're excited.

1:34.2

We're going to be sharing all of our traditions. So if you guys are interested in diving into the

1:38.3

accelerator in the month of November, you can go to family teams.com and just click on the accelerator and join us.

1:48.2

So the way the accelerator works is that the first week of the accelerator, so the first week in November, we give you guys the playbook.

1:50.0

So this is, this is like a 10-page playbook that Jeff and Alyssa have for how to do

1:54.5

a meaningful Christmas.

1:55.3

You'll get that on week one.

1:57.3

Week two, you're going to get a coaching call with Jeff or with the Bethkees. They're going to be on there to describe ways for questions you guys have that stem for the podcast we're going to do next week. So that'll be the second week of November. Third week in November, you'll get a tutorial from April and I. We'll walk you guys through a lot more detail of what we're going to talk about today on the podcast, how we Christmas and then week four is always town hall with the priors and so we jump on there with some of our

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