[Kid Inspiration]

Natalie Miller is the reason Hillsong Kids doesn’t really do puppets.

Alongside Kermit the frog Natalie is one of the big reasons we don’t even try to use puppets in our programs. They do make an appearance occasionally in our Big Curriculums (Curricula?), but even then it’s very limited and often average…

You see, after getting her to perform in Hillsong Kids years ago I have seen how puppets should be done. Kermit the frog and his friends also feature heavily among the reasons we don’t use the furry critters, they have set the bar to high.

Now I’m not saying we won’t ever use puppets, its just that I don’t think we are good enough at it.

One key principle for any ministry or Church is to stay laser focussed on what you are good at.

Anyway.

From Natalie’s website:

For the 2013 Aussie winter, we will be fleeing the cold and heading over to the beautiful summer in the USA for a few months!

Here’s the deal, I know that USAmerican type people read this blog and some of you should get Natalie to come and get all your children saved. She really is the best that Australia has to offer, so don’t disappoint us, we have very little else to send.

It really irks me when people start blog posts talking about the lack of posts, that being said…

After a massive hiatus in blogging I have returned to the fold, to the promised text input box, to my corner of the world-wide interwebs.

I decided that after the unrest that I was causing in international geo-political hotspots around the world (Arab spring anyone?) I should at least write some new content to calm the thronging masses.

We are nearing the annual Hillsong Conference, so our team is in full perpetual motion peparing for the inevitable teeming masses of children we will hangout with in two weeks. For 5 nights and 4 days from about 9am to 9pm with a break for dinner KIDSONG will be rocking with BOB and LARRY! Oh yeah. VeggieTales is headed down under.

Pretty excited about this, I think some of our parents are more excited about this news than some of our kids!

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On April the 24th, which was a Tuesday our new Hillsong Kids DVD ‘Crazy Noise‘ was released into the wild.

This is our FIRST ever preschool music project and I am pretty pumped about making music for little ones. In fact I am so pumped here’s my quote from the album cover:

Hillsong Children’s Pastor Dave Wakerley says “For a long time we have wanted to create an album for this age group and we are so excited about producing this album for the preschooler.’Crazy Noise’ is full of brand new songs that your little ones will enjoy singing, dancing, and praising God to.”

I blogged on the Hillsong Collected site about it here.

It says something about the value we place on children, not only to the church but to the world that we take the time and effort in invest into our little ones!

I think we need more of it, and I hope that this is just the beginning of creating music to create memories in our babies that they remember for the rest of their lives.

Here’s one of the music videos with my beautiful wife Beci!

I even got Hillsong United to mention to 3 million people on Facebook!

Our Facebook page has a competition where you can record some Crazy Noises for prizes.

So check out how you can get a hold of it at: hillsongmusic.com/kids or pop down to your local Christian Music store!

Tomorrow I start a series called Nuts and Bolts, a bunch of concise single thoughts on a long list of topics and issues related to working with kids in a mainly alphabetical order.

That sounds way more boring than it should, so I will make sure to throw in the occasional image of a ninja eating bacon… (just googled that… surprisingly not a lot of images… seems like an opportunity for someone in the internets).

Part one tomorrow: DECOR

(please control your excitement).

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Twas the weekend before conference and all through Dave’s blog, not a creature was stirring, not even his dog.

For the site was silent and lonely and bored, and had even forgotten where the spel cheker was storred.

Then all of a sudden from out of the mist, came a new blog post oh how it was missed!

But alas and alack for it was simply a dud and Dave’s blog let it’s expectation down with a thud.

No enlightening reparte no intelligent scribbles, just a silly poem and unitelligent drivel.

Dave’s blog sat back down on its server lightly sighing, oh well at least, thank you for trying.

A Poem by David Charles Wakerley the first.

*It’s all true. But I really would like to give a bit of a inside peek into what we do this year at our annual Kidsong World conference! Coming soon! If you are coming to conference. See you soon

The Highlight video from our One Day events around Sydney is now up online.

Thanks to @BrianCHouston and @joelabell for making this possible and bringing a kids team along!

So I was just a part of the 2011 Children’s Ministry Telesummit hosted by pajama conference.

Myself and Funny Man Dan put together a video training with a title too large to mention here.

If you missed it, have no fear because you can download the entire package for under $50 at their website.

Get Inspired! Be Blessed! and Learn from some of the top Children’s Pastors and Leaders today.This downloadable collection is the entire 2011 Children’s Ministry Telesummit Audio’s and Video’s. Over 30 Hours of Teachings and Education! This package will be great to give out to your ministry leaders! Make copies and you can give one out a month for over two years or give one out every week to feed your leaders with.

A great group of leaders for sure!

So if only writing songs were this easy:

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My blog silence can be attributed to multiple projects at one time.

Kidsfest is tomorrow and I am studio bound finishing off tracks for the preschool album recording during the event. We are also finishing up our new BIG Curriculum ‘Supernatural’ which requires a chunk of attention.

I am eager to continue thoughts on the ‘violence in the bible’ discussion that started on this post here. So stay tuned for that!

Thanks for reading, I appreciate you taking the time!

So our annual KIDSFEST event is coming up very soon.

Here is our promo video famvir generic for it!

KIDSFEST 2010

You may have noticed the preschool CD recording announcement! Oh yeah. Our first ever preschool project!

Look for more announcements soon!

Our first BIG curriculum was ‘Tell The World’, very evangelistic and foundational. Our second was ‘Follow You’, all about discipleship and ‘now you know Jesus’ – what do you do?

Well we are working on our 3rd curriculum right now called ‘Supernatural‘. This one is all about a lifestyle of worship.

It works right alongside our Supernatural album.

So we spent last week filming. And by last week I mean ALL of last week. From morning to night we filmed like maniacs to get it all done.

Its a great way to work, get it all done in one go… but the pressure was on and we felt it. I got grumpy a few times, but in the end we accomplished all we wanted to. Here are a few photos!

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The Set

Just another day with Dan

The girls of BIG HQ

What are we looking at?

There is no release date for BIG Supernatural yet. But as soon as I can give a date I will make sure to post it on this blog.

The CMTelesummit has just started… which is true if you are reading this soon after I am writing this, but very untrue if you read this in a few days, to it’s one of those time sensitive announcements.

It’s 9:30am in the morning in the US but Midnight here in Sydney so I am out, but if you read this any time soon get on over to the sit and get a hold of the call in number.

Skype works brilliant for the summit, so get on it!

My session is on 2pm tomorrow US EST time. Check ditropan order online it out, I am talking about how to run a key volunteer team!

Can’t really say more than that.

I am getting very excited

Oh yeah!

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We are once again ramping up for Hillsong Conference in July!

I love conference time each year… the air is crisp, the sun bright but ineffective, winter is all around and we all get precious little sleep as we present our annual conference to champion the cause of the local church.

KIDSONG 2010 promo from Hillsong Church on Vimeo.

So, Hillsong Kids team, we want to hang out with you and a couple thousand kids! Make plans to be there. Ministry leaders come along, if you are in the leadership stream we would love for you to be a part of our Children’s Pastors and Leaders electives!

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I have a couple of awesome events comin’ up soon one of them you probably can’t come too, but the other you really should!

1. I’m speaking at a Kids camp in Dunedin NZ! Kidsrock… was invited by the awesome Sarah (best title for a blog in a long time), and I am really excited to get back to my roots and speak to a group of kiwi kids.

KidsRock Promo 2010 from ICCNZ on Vimeo.

2. The other one you can all be a part of — the Children’s Ministry Telesummit

This is a brilliant event that you can be a part of for FREE, just sign up online… you just need a telephone! I have a VERY practical message to present that WILL help you in your ministry!

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