All-age and family worship
Monday, 19 November 2007 by Matt F
It would be great to know which all-age and family worship songs are working well in other congregations, particularly those with a sizeable collection of children! We have a very large number of under 10s as a proportion of our congregation in Chislehurst and it would be really helpful to hear of songs, strategies and methods used in sung worship when the whole church is together. Your suggestions, thoughts and ideas are all greatly appreciated!
Come to think of it, it would be interesting to know which other Ichthus congregations have a significant number of children.
Would also be keen to hear about songs that seem to be working well - we’ve got a couple that I wrote which are a bit daft really……remember the Trio advert…”I want a Trio and I want one now” - there’s one to that tune about Daniel and the lions Den which is good. Also to the ‘coco pops’ tune one about Pharoh/Israelites Egypt story. Finally I’ve got one ‘God Gave me a big heart though I’m small’ which also seems to work quite well.
I haven’t gotten round to recording these yet but could do and let folk hear them……as I say they’re a bit daft and probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but wanted to contribute.
http://www.familyworship.org.uk/ipraymusic has got chords to the ipray album by Mike Burns… our kids love “For the Kids”, an album you can find it:
http://www.amazon.com/Kids-Various-Artists/dp/B00006L7QX
…it’s not Christian, though we’ve been asked to poach the music and write in our own lyrics!