[Kid Inspiration]

The GMA Award nominees were announced this week!

Children’s Music Album of the Year

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• Absolute Modern Worship for Kids 3; Kid Connection; Craig Adams; Fervent Records
• deliberateKids; Phil Joel; Phil Joel; Indelible Creative Group
• My Father’s World; The Praise Baby Collection; Christopher Davis; Big House Kids
• Snazzy; Go Fish; Jamie Statema, Darren Rust; GFK Records
• Supernatural; Hillsong Kids; Julia A’Bell, Gio Galanti, Andrew Crawford, David Wakerley; Hillsong Music, Integrity Music
• VeggieTales Christian Hit Music; VeggieTales; Christopher Davis; Big Idea Records

Yay!

We were nominated in 06 for “Jesus is my Superhero”, and now in 08 for Supernatural!

It’s acutally a good year for Hillsong Church… The Hillsong United guys are up for Group of the Year and Praise and Worship Album of the Year… and Darlene Zschech for vocalist.

To see the full list of the nominees go to doveawards.com

Yancy cheap xenical uk has a new album out called Rock-N-Happy Heart.

From Yancynotnancy.com:

Yancy spent five years at Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a congregational worship leader, overseeing worship in a variety of areas and for a multitude of age groups. From elementary ministry to youth to young adults to the main worship staff, Yancy has the distinctive skill to lead all ages in worship, which led to her most recent album, a worship album for kids called Rock-N-Happy Heart that also features a companion DVD. If rock-n-roll is your style and worship is your heart. This music will bring a smile to your face.

One of the coolest things is, (at least to me) is that she has a version of I’m Reallly Happy which is a song Beci (my wife) and I wrote from Jesus is my Superhero!

And it is a FANTASTIC version, waaay better than our 2004 version!

So thanks Yancy! And everyone needs to not JUST buy the album but buy the Ministry Combo for your Children’s Ministry.

I read a lot of stuff…

In fact in an effort to read more, I am currently reading a book on speed reading… its just taking a long time. (Ha!)

(I cheap ultram prescriptions apologise… now back to your regularly scheduled program)

The music industry is something I have been studying for some time now. I am in some way a small part of it because of our Hillsong Kids Albums, and it along with the Media industries have a lot of cultural impact on our children and families.

So David Byrne’s Article for Wired Magazine is a fascinating read.

David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that’s not bad news for music, and it’s certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.

Read on

There are so many implications for the kids we minister to. Here is a list of some of them… which may or may not have come from this article:

Dave’s List for a new world:

1. Unlike the consumer culture you and I grew up in , our kids are growing up in a participation/collaboration culture
2. Music is digital and free in our kids minds
3. The ‘experience’ (events, concerts, meetings etc) will only increase in importance
4. Most of the families in your church (and probably you) are breaking copyright law in some way — which suggests to me that the law needs to change.
5. We as ‘grown ups’ need to change NOW, in order to understand the natives in this new world (our kids).
6. The video screen is the 21st Centuries stained glass window
7. Media is being produced where an audience of 100 is success, not just the blockbuster million dollar movie
8. The cost of producing excellent media will only decrease (it’s practically nothing already…if I had the skill, my home studio could produce anything from a music album to a movie score
9. YOU don’t get it yet, (neither do I)
10. Sharing a song by email/or whatever comes/and will come as naturally as breathing to kids (thereby breaking current law)
11. One of the major file sharing websites in the world went down for about a 24 hour period late last year and internet traffic in Europe went down by 35% in the same period
12. Don’t EVER put a computer or a TV in your child’s bedroom, if you do so, you are inviting porn and violence into their lives — kids get lessons before they swim, they need to know HOW and what to avoid online.
13. As kids leave my ‘Children’s Ministry’ and move in ‘Youth Ministry’ I don’t just want them to know about God, and have a deep relationship with Jesus, but also HOW to filter the world around them. Recognise and understand the culture they live in. What is beneficial and what is harmful, and how to engage culture… not to picket and denounce it!!!!
14. Harry, the Compass, Da Vinci… don’t be scared by the boogie man. In fact having your child read the golden compass during their teenage years may be one of the greatest tools to help your child identify other world views and develop a healthy response to them!
15. (What ticks me off about The Golden Compass is that the books have been around for over ten years and yet it seems that cinema is still the great evil of the Christian world, as if other forms of art ie. books, don’t matter and aren’t relevant).
16. God speaks through a donkey, he CAN and WILL speak through Britney, Madonna, The black eyed Peas, Hannah Montana, U2 — any kind of Art can be transformational.
17. Please don’t let your kids treat ‘secular’ (hate that word), art as to be avoided, you just condemned them to a life of irrelevance.
18. I have connected with some kids better through Nintendo DS than any other way
19. Somehow help your parents, to understand that the eyes are the window to the soul.We must protect that window jealously, I still remember vividly remember the first ‘inappropriate’ material I saw as a very young teenager… who was in the room, where I was, who let me see it… your kids will too… especially your boys… PROTECT THEM.
20. I am out of thoughts…

You may be wondering how I got all that from 1 article, the truth is that it was a collaborative effort from the results of much reading and study… especially blogs.

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You saw it here first… final artwork for ‘Tell the World’.

Just found these randomly on YouTube, a bunch of clips with Superhero in them.

Even after writing this song four years ago it still gives me a buzz to see children around the world singing to God…

What a blessing!

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After looking through my DVD’s last week I spotted something that I should have blogged about at least a year ago. Some most excellent praise and worship music for kids!

Citipointe is located in the great city of Brisbane and have alesse buy services in Mansfield (Citipointe Brisbane) Coomera (Citipointe Gold Coast) and Inala (Citipointe West).

Check out their first Kids album All of My Days it is absolutely brilliant! I LOVE seeing churches give their best for children, and this church has done it. Great value with a DVD, CD and Bonus DVD you just need to order it from their site. The site says that they cannot process online international orders yet, but I had a test of the order link and it seems like you can!

I also saw Luke Harris, Citipointe’s children’s pastor lead worship with his team at last years Kidshaper conference in Melbourne, and apart from being passionate worshippers… they have a REALLY great group of leaders!

Go… buy… now…

P.S. Signing off from blog world until next weekend due to Hillsong Conference. See ya there (if ya there).

Supernatural is now available in the U.S. at all Christian Book Stores. And apparently will be shipping on March 30 in the U.K. and I guess Europe. Link

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Supernatural is now available in the Australian iTunes store!

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Local newspaper coverage of the recent Kidsfest event…

The Hills Shire Times sent a reporter to cover the story… nice of them.
The picture that accompanied the story in the paper had a picture of Kirsty Thornthwaite (one of our awesome worship leaders) incorrectly labelled as Julia.

Plus a couple of other technicalities in the story that aren’t quite correct (Ms A’Bell?? Mrs, I think).

But nice of someone acai prices to show up for a positive story.

We are deep in the mixing process for Supernatural all this week, and it is sounding amazing. It was great to be able to record in our own convention centre rather than an outside venue like the last two years, and we have really captured a fantastic live sound!

Below, some pic’s from the day!

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This post may have a somewhat formal title but the contents will be anything but formal. God pretty much exceeded our entire teams expectations and blew us all away!

This past Wednesday the whole of Hillsong Kids for our two main worship centres and our extension services got together for a huge kidsfest and to record our third album. We had been working hard to get as many kids there as possible to make it a fantastic day and most of all did not want our church kids to miss out on the recording.

Long story short… on the day, hundreds of extra parents and kids turned up and registered for the day that morning! We had over a thousand ‘extra’ people at the event, which caused a number of things to happen:

1. We ran out of sausages for lunch and had to go out and buy more.
2. The atmosphere in the auditorium was electric!

You will see it on the DVD when it is released in early December (Australian release date, Feb 07 worldwide), but it is the most humbling and awe inspiring sight to see thousands of children worshipping Jesus.

As a team we really feel this recording is significant. Churches gathered from all over Sydney and the State of New South Wales, and thousands of children were there representing a generation of children that, by the grace of God will be followers of Christ for the rest of their lives.

Yes, the album will most likely acai berry cheap be called ‘Supernatural’, which makes a trilogy of ‘Super’ albums. ‘Jesus is my Superhero’, ‘Super Strong God’ and now ‘Supernatural’… No this was not planned But is a happy coincidence as the first track on the album is called Supernatural, and none of the other songs really stood out as a album title!

So now we have the ‘Super Series’, signing of the first chapter in our journey to resource the church with praise and worship music written for (and even by), God’s children.

Coming up in report #2, maybe some pictures and stuff…

Apparently

I don’t live in South or North America – but Integrity Music assures me Super Strong God is being released today… so visit your local Christian Music Store and pick one up…

(HINT: the DVD is SO much cooler than the CD)

Very excited today!

Unexpectedly “Jesus is my Superhero” has been nominated for Children’s Music Album of the Year at the GMA Awards in April this year! The nominations came out this morning and our first ever kids album is in the running for the equivalent of the Grammys in the Christian world.
This is a big deal – it is the only Hillsong Music album nominated this year!

There are six albums in the running, and Superhero is the only one produced by a local church, not a record label.

Anyway, definately a surprise, and I may just have to be in Nashville in April for the ceremony