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!
When my friend told me today about Red Ferris Wheel, I almost plucked my eyeball out in sheer excitement. Zach Fonville has provided us with a host of free still images and motion backgrounds. It is a HUGE collection! Download them now for your worship environments!
I’m not big on pulpit pleas, but I do find a good deal of fruit in volunteer recruitment through a sweeping campaign each year. I do not just accept people on the spot (I’m big on interviewing, conducting personal asks, and placing according to passions and gifts). We use this campaign to educate the congregation about upcoming ministries and make sure new people know there is a great opportunity to serve kids. We allow people to show interest in a particular position and then follow up with them with applications, interviews, and orientations. Here’s what I am doing this year. I have packaged it in a generic fashion so that your church can use almost everything I will be using.
Do you have a clip from a DVD you need for a message this weekend? Perhaps you want to convert some of your worship DVD’s to individual files so that you can more easily access them during a children’s worship.
Then you need Handbrake. I have used a paid program to rip tracks off of DVD’s and I really feel that Handbrake is the best. It is a free program and will allow you to rip full tracks or portions of chapters into MP4 format. While this format will not work in MS Powerpoint, it is a fully acceptable file in programs like Easy Worship, Pro Presenter, Song Show Plus, or Media Shout.
Footage Firm is giving away 10 of their looping worship backgrounds. They are great quality loops. You can download them in both standard and high definition. Get the downloads here.
Also, coming this week…a new series called Fire ‘Em Up. This will be a series of devotionals from Scripture that you can use with your volunteers and staff. I have six of them lined up, but we’ll see where the Spirit takes them!
Big City Studio is the children’s church curriculum from Kidz Blitz (Roger Fields). We have been using it for 3 years now and it is incredibly awesome! In six years, it takes kids through the entire Bible and Roger and his team have come up with some high impact ways to get those Bible truths across to young minds. One resource I’ve created to help my Big City is a “Shout it Out” bumper video. Shout it Out is a “Wheel of Fortune” type game where kids guess letters and try to solve phrases that deal with the message for the morning. The kids really love this one. I used a song by Yancy.
Have you heard of this new Game Show on NBC called “Minute to Win It?” It’s really cool and features a ton of games we can use in Children’s Ministry. Most of the games do not involve any elaborate set up or props, so they are very doable. You can check out videos on each of the games (instructions) here. Check out an example below. If you can figure out a way to pull the NBC videos off of their site to use them in kids church, let me know!
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