[Kid Inspiration]

Yeah Harmony, we didn’t want to see the ‘gentle animals’!

Part one is here.

So on the first day all of the small groups (each child is in a small group of kids with a leader) got a ‘Cloodle’ which was a record of all the clues that we left around the Kidsong venues. Some were written in chalk in random places, some were read out from stage, some were texted to leaders and some were handed out on bits of paper. There were 18 clues in all and they had to fill out all the clues because on the last morning we revealed the final meta puzzle.

A letter out of each of the 18 clues was needed to create a final sentence to unlock where the ‘treasure’ was ultimately hidden.

One of our challenges each year is to create an exciting prize for the winning team (every child is allocated a tribe/pod for the conference). It’s hard on a limited budget to get a prize that is valuable for a few hundred kids and doesn’t cost your whole budget.

Every year we produce ‘trading cards‘ (coming in part three of this series) that we release each day and the kids go nuts trying to collect them all. Some are rarer than others and this year the rarest of all turned out to be the hidden treasure on the final day. We produced an unannounced 11th card for the winning team ONLY.

There were only a few hundred of this card and not many kids outside of the winning team would have got one. So after announcing the winning team and revealing the meta puzzle we produced the MAP and the winning team went to dig up their treasure.

Funny Story: My esteemed collegue Nathan Mclean, whom I charged to bury the aforementioned tresure only hours before it was revealed is still at the conference site looking for one of the packages (two primary school age groups = two different treasures). One thing I know, I will never let him forget his disastrous treasure finding abilities.

(Even with one lost we had enough to go around thank goodness).

Thanks to Elisha Suarez and her team of thespians who wrote our Mystery script, she did an absolutely magnificent job and I could not have imagined a better video series! Also thanks to our editors Logan, Eric, Josh and Nathan who did post audio! It all worked out in the end!

Here is part three of the video:

This is part four:

And here is the final wrap up of the whole thing, where the kids get to see all the secrets. This is shown on the final night of conference and recaps the entire week.

Coming in part three: The designs of the trading cards and the ‘cloodle’.

Plus other highlights from Kidsong World 2010!

To our awesome Hillsong Church volunteers. Thanks!

Last weekend we took a moment during our services to say thanks to the 4779 people who pulled off our best conference yet! If you were one of them, then thanks so much, you rock!

I’m super freakin’ pumped up like an over-inflated bicycle tyre

My man James Leggot explain in the video which you can watch on the site: hillsongconference.com/backstage

Hillsong BACKSTAGE – Web Design – 5weeks to go from Hillsong Church on Vimeo.

So this is similar to the Catalyst Backstage and Orange Conference Behind the scenes/live streaming plus highlights from the conference!

So it will be developing for the next few weeks as we countdown to the conference. If you cannot make it to the conference then this is the place to be during the week.

I will be hosting some of the live streaming along with a bunch of our team here at church!

Can’t wait!

I know I’m light on the whole ‘meaningful content‘ about ministry and life and leadership ‘thing’.

But this did tickle my linguistic funny bone – because saying ‘I could care less…’ has bugged me for a while now

See you soon with some real content – hopefully!

Muppet fun for Easter – although a little twisted.

Happy Easter!

On our Hillsong Kids Big website we added a news item with a fun Video blog, but to save you the chance of a repetitive strain injury I have embedded it here.

Aren’t I thoughtful…

Visit the Follow You Curriculum page here and check out all the bonus material we’ve just uploaded for you!

As always we value your feedback and questions, so please feel free to contact the BIG team anytime.

Every few months a new version of the famous “Shift Happens” video is released, with startling stats and eye opening facts, and bowel moving predictions… here is the latest:

The latest version of the “Shift happens” videos updated for autumn 2009, developed by XPLANE in partnership with The Economist. This Did You Know video focuses on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology.

Youtube Link: Shift Happens

Melisa Bester is a part of our Hills Campus at Hillsong Church. She has sung on a number of Hillsong Kids albums and has now turned into a teenager with some serious talent… now I’m not saying I made her what she is today and that if it wasn’t for the opportunities to lead worship she had years ago she may not have even made it this far… just remember me when you’re famous Melisa!

The reality is, she has a gift from God and her family have nurtured it and developed it.

Here is her first music video Wanna Be Free

Her album is out soon… or may be out now… can’t seem to find anywhere to buy it?

I love seeing our kids grow up with confidence and pursuing their dreams!

7am this morning, awoke and made my way to someone else’s house to start filming a music video for ‘Love Never Fails’, which just may turn out to be one of the most embarrassing things I have ever done.

Love Never Fails is a song written by myself and Gio Galanti, one of our kids album producers from Hillsong London. With help from Funny Man Dan in lyrics we have created this kind of Hip Hop track that talks about the fact that love never fails.

It’s not exactly praise and worship, so we are making a music video for it and including as maybe a little bonus on the album this year. But it was a whole lot of fun check out a couple of shots from the shoot with the ever imporessive Ben Field directing!

Ben peering into the little monitor to see what’s happening.

Dan filming last scene of day with a little help from our pro shaders

So click this link right here to check out all the Video Accompaniment Tracks for Tell The World you can download right now to use in your Children’s Ministry!

These videos are in MP4 format you can either burn to DVD, or use a software program like Mediashout to play from your computer!

Hillsong Conference is here! It kinda snuck up on me this year, but it is already having awesome impact. Our new pre-teen age group is absolutely rockin’, in fact all our age groups at conference seem so better targeted and focussed!

Well it’s almost midnight, video of day one below!

Another post announcing something without actually containing any kind of content or insightful thoughts on God and His manifest presence and glory working in the lives of we His people here on planet earth!

Yep, just wanted to point out that I just updated the BIG curriculum site with a new promo video… I am trying right now to upload it to youtube, but the gremlins are active…

So check out the new 9:12 long video that goes into more detail exactly what BIG is!!!

Hillsong Kids Big

- Dave