On Sunday, November 29, the Church will begin a worldwide multimedia initiative for the 2015 Christmas season titled “A Savior Is Born.” The initiative focuses on the importance of the Savior’s birth and includes the following elements:
- “A Savior Is Born” video (2 minutes).
- Updated christmas.mormon.org website, featuring shareable content on the importance and mission of Jesus Christ.
- Articles in the December issues of the Ensign, Liahona, and New Era magazines.
- Pass-along cards, posters, and other materials available for member and missionary use at mormon.org/download.
- Shareable content on Church social media pages, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and YouTube.
Beginning November 29, members are encouraged to view and share the video “A Savior Is Born” and to invite others to learn more about the birth, life, and mission of the Savior Jesus Christ by visiting christmas.mormon.org. When sharing, please use the hashtag #ASaviorIsBorn.
Updated January 19, 2016: As of today, the video, “A Savior Is Born,” has been viewed 54.5 million times. It has been viewed in 198 countries and territories. Spanish has had 28.1 million views, English has had 15.1 million, and Portuguese has had 11.1 million views.
The video and website will be available in the following 29 languages:
Albanian, Armenian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, and Ukrainian. An additional animated video will be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The site provides print-and-share signs for you to download and write your own message and share on social media.
Below are examples of the posters, pass-along cards, print-and-share signs, and sacrament meeting programs you can download in high resolution in many languages at mormon.org/download.
Pass-along cards:
Poster (in various sizes):
Print-and-share pages:
Sacrament meeting programs:
Stay tuned to LDS365.com during December for additional surprises:
- 12 Days of Social Influencers (Dec 1-12)
- 25 GIFs of Christmas Advent Calendar
- Special surprise on Dec 13
- Free printables
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I almost sent this email invitation to friends and family and am glad I didn’t
It makes no sense there are no instructions. One of them is a non member and she would not have any idea what she should do with this. A simple sentence of instruction or something to tell them why they are getting this email and a link or something would be much better. This line does not look very professional in my opinion. Why not make it a link to click on, When I go to the site I have to sign up for updates??? If I was a non-member I am pretty sure I would not do so for fear I would get a bunch of continual things I did not want
Hope is born. Joy is born. #ASaviorIsBorn. Discover why at christmas.mormon.org.
Jeff,
This article is just a heads-up that the video and website to share will be available on November 29th. That’s when you can share a link to christmas.mormon.org and people will be able to watch the video. At that time, there will be no email sign-up.
Larry
I’m not very tech savvy. How do I print the pass along cards so that they are the same size/thickness of the regular pass along cards? I need a bunch of them. I wish I could just buy them from the Distribution Center!
I do too. I called, but they don’t sell them. The cards are setup to print one per page. Not sure how to print a sheet-full. Not super user friendly.
You would need to take them to a local print shop. Just give them the PDF on a USB drive (or email it to them) and they can print what you need from it.