God’s Kids Worship is on to something. They have an interesting niche in the kids worship market in that they have put together sets of music so that your worship leaders don’t even need to choose which songs they are doing each week. It is a sort of curriculum for worship.

The DVD’s are designed to be used with any kids ministry gathering, no matter what the curriculum. They worked hard to make it easy for a volunteer to use just the parts thye want, when they want them. Leaders can simply sing 1 or 2 songs, mix and match with other DVD’s, or have an entire worship event by adding their own message.

The music they use is great and the backgrounds are generally good, though I think you will find a little higher production in the Shout Praises and Hillsong series of worship. With that said, it is still a top notch worship company that produces quality material with which your ministry will benefit.

God’s Kids Worship is kind enough to be giving away 1 Fall quarter of the Modern Worship DVD Series ($60 Value). All you have to do is place a comment below answering the question: “What do I want kids to know about worship?”

I’ll randomly pick a winner next Thursday September 2nd!

Forgotten God by Francis Chan is an incredible book. So often we do not honor the Holy Spirit like He should be honored, nor do we allow His power to infiltrate our life and ministry.

You can get this free e-book from Christian Audio. They offer one free audio book per month. Hurry, the offer ends June 30th! Listen to this book and apply how you can better allow the Holy Spirit to work in your children’s ministry!

If you like quality kids music, then you need to check out what Integrity has to offer.

In generous fashion, Integrity is allowing me to give away 5 prize packs! They include

• 1 Shout Praises Kids: Promises DVD
• 1 Shout Praises Kids: Promises CD
• 1 Integrity Kids backpack

You can enter into the drawing two ways:

1. Comment below that you would like to be entered (1 comment per person)
2. Tweet or Facebook about this contest–then just enter in the comment box below that you Tweeted or Facebook’d it. I trust you to be honest!

Do you want some crazy awesome kids music for free? Then go and download The Village Church’s “Jesus Came to Save Sinners.” I’m so excited when large churches like The Village give out stuff like this that is obviously a product of long hours and hard work. Thanks Village Church!

I’m thankful for partners in ministry. I have so much to learn from them.

Check out Simply Youth Ministry for a smattering of free resources like: forms, dramas, media, and videos. A great deal of this can be applicable to kid and family ministry.

Have you heard yet? Some of the biggest names in CM are offering their professional advice at the Children’s Ministry Telesummit. This completely free call-in conference is taking place June 21 and 22. There will be 8 hours of training on each day and you can pick and choose which sessions in which you would like to take part. That means you can go to a children’s ministry conference in nothing but your Tom and Jerry boxers while you eat a bowl of Captain Crunch. That’s pretty freakin’ awesome!

Who’s leading sessions? Let me name drop: Jim Wideman, Karl Bastian, Gina McClain, Amy Dolan, David Wakerly, and others (see them all here). Check out the Telesummit partners in the Exhibit Hall.

Register for it. Tell your volunteers about it. Thank Jeremy Collins for doing it. Make your smartphone remind you about it. Cherish it. Learn from it. Be a better leader because of it.

Apparently Free CM Stuff is not an original idea!

A youth pastor friend of mine, cued me in to Pastor2Youth. They have a ton of games, links, media, and object lessons that we can steal and use in CM.

Now humble yourself and admit it, it is possible to learn from youth pastors!

Contest ends soon: You have until this afternoon to get your name in the hat for the Sovereign Grace CD’s. Hurry!

Have you ever wanted to pull a sound, vocal clip, or sound from a video off of your computer? If so, you need to get one of these two free programs:

MP3myMP3

Aktiv

Here’s how I used Mp3myMP3 recently. I needed the background sound of a football game. I could not find a long enough effect on any free sound effect sites. I went to the NFL’s website and found some video of a couple of games. I used the program to pull just the sound off and store as an MP3.

Now, you can very easily use this to pull music off of sites like Pandora or Grooveshark. However, that would be stealing licensed music and I can’t say I recommend you do that. Be honest, buy it!

This week, Sovereign Grace Music has asked me to review two of their CD’s for kids and also give away a few to some lucky Free CM Stuff readers!

They sent me two of their CD’s: Amazing God and To Be Like Jesus.

Both of these CD’s are incredible. My two daughters love them. They stay true to Sovereign Grace Ministries’ desire to exalt biblical truth in our world. Amazing God helps kids to explore the depths of the nature and character of God. To Be Like Jesus plants the fruit of the Spirit into young hearts. The music is of excellent quality and I’ve found myself choosing to listen to it on my own on several occasions. I definitely recommend that you buy these (if you don’t win them) to provide more biblically centered music in your ministry. I would also suggest you make parents aware of these great resources.

They will be giving away 2 sets of these CD’s. You can put your name in the hat in two ways.

1. Comment below that you want to be entered. (1 time)
2. Become a fan of Free CM Stuff on Facebook AND comment on the wall that you want to be entered. (1 time)

Your name can be entered into the drawing no more than two times. I will announce the winner on Wednesday April 14th. Good luck!

I’ve come across this really awesome band for kids called The Lads. They are from New Zealand and have a great sound. There is a movement in Children’s and Family music to make music more culturally relevant and this is a great thing! On their site, you can download several of their songs. Just look for the brown box with the orange arrow at the top of their site. I can’t link you straight to them because the site is flash based.