Children's Worship | Music Suggestions

Here are some of the albums we currently use songs from in our children's large group worship time at New Minas Baptist Church.

1. Great Big God [Cds 1, 2, 3 and Preschool]. These songs are excellent content from England with fun tunes. They are not as high energy for the most part as the Hillsong Kids series [below]. In my opinion, the songs appeal to a target age of grade p-2 with the obvious exception of the preschool cd.

2. Hillsong Kids. HK is from Hillsong Church in Austrailia. The HK music is the most upbeat [rock and roll oriented] children's music that I am aware of. Children absolutely love these songs and ask for them over and over - Superhero and One Way are the run away favorites in our children's ministry. Like most children's worship cds there are songs on each disc which are fantastic and some that you'll listen to and never do live. The median age target, in my opinion, is about grade 3-5. These songs have great content, but whereas some [many] of them are children's adaptations of Hillsong United songs they do often have larger words.

3. Shout Praises Kids. This series is a middle of the road between the previous 2 options in terms of age target and energy level. Many of the songs are children's adaptations of adult worship songs. This isn't a philosophy that I always prefer - sometimes adult songs do not transfer to children's ministry well. That said, some songs are a fantastic fit and can be used in both adult services and children's worship. Recently for a series on Love in our church the adults used the song Love the Lord by Lincoln Brewster, in our children's ministry we used the SPK version and the connection of children going home singing what the adults also sang was excellent!

4. Deliberate Kids by Phil Joel. Phil formerly is a member of the Newsboys and has since launched his own ministry called Deliberate People. The Dk songs are a lot of fun with great content. Some of them are not all that singable, but other are. In our children's ministry right now we play the Good Morning Song every single week to launch our large group time. We have also used the New Testament song as a tool to learn the order of the books.

Those are the main sources of recorded music we use in our children's ministry right now. We do have a few other songs that we use by the Penny Merchants, by Doug Horley and Scripture Rock.