Children Resources
Salt & Light Ministries is proud to offer resources designed exclusively for
children!
"Worship is Elementary", our
first worship CD, offers 3 familiar worship songs as well as 8 original worships songs that encourage your kids to have fun while they sing and worship.
"Devotion 'n Motion Volume II" is the second
volume in this series and includes seven songs from our Movement is Elementary
CD, to include "Feels so Good", "I Clap", "Set Me Free", "Every Move I Make",
"Press On", "Awesome God" and "Zap Me God". Each song has three tracks: the
original recording with lyrics included against a colorful animated background;
the karaoke version with lyrics included against the same background; and the
third track is the original recording with lyrics and the worship movements
demonstrated in the background. So, you can listen, sing along, or dance to the
music!
Our second children's worship project,
"Undignified",
features "The Armor of God" to the Macarena, "Undignified", "Trading My Sorrows"
and eights others!
"Devotion 'n' Motion Volume I" is a worship tool for children's ministry
leaders to be used in Kid's Church, Mid-week services, VBS, Summer Camps, or in
your family living room. It includes eight songs from our Undignified CD, to
include "The Armor of God Song", "The I Can Can-Can", and "The Blessing Song".
Each song has three tracks: the original recording with lyrics included against
a colorful animated background; the karaoke version with lyrics included against
the same background; and the third track is the original recording with lyrics
and the worship movements demonstrated in the background. So, you can listen,
sing along, or dance to the music! Click to get the lyrics!
Jeff's new children's Christmas music, The Lone Manger, is the story of Woody, the manger of the nativity, and the inanimate props that surround the telling of a traditional children's Christmas play. The story of Christmas has grown old and the props are fighting the feeling that their best days of telling the Christmas story are behind them. When the manger is inadvertently stored with the Easter props for the season, he meets the cross who tells him everything that happens after Christmas. Feeling so terribly betrayed, Woody decides to leave the ensemble. The rest of the cast is devastated and tries to convince Woody to stay by sharing their personal stories of Christmas. But the plan backfires and Woody spills the horrible truth about the Crucifixion. When all seems lost, the hills of Judea bursts forth with a revelation she didn't even know she had: Jesus is alive! The Lone Manger is a play about the importance of community and the need to share the story of how Christmas changed us all forever!
The play includes 12 new songs by Jeff Smith to include "You've Got to Learn to be Content", "One", "Glitter Like Gold" and "The Last Thing He Wanted to Do". This resource along with the Split-Trax CD to The Lone Manger is everything you'll need to stage the rousing production. Remember...before they can experience the miracle of Easter, someone must tell them the mystery of Christmas. The Digital Resource Kit includes the full-length performance DVD, the production DVD with teaching on costuming, props and choreography, CD-ROM with Production notes, Director's and Technical Scripts, Administrative support, costuming support, sheet music and lyric sheets as well as the Split-Trax CD for only $199! Or order a listening CD for just $5!
Jeff Smith's children's musical, Pirates of the "I Don't Care"-ibbean, is sure to be a big hit with kids! Creator Jeff Smith wants kids to learn that, "You are not created to be on a deserted island, guarding someone else's treasure. Your real treasure is in heaven, not on earth. Avarice is a tool of the enemy to keep you from becoming all God created you to be on earth. In the story, Andy exposes the lies of the evil captain and helps the pirates assume their rightful place on the sea."
In conjunction with our new children’s musical, Pirates of the “I Don’t Care”-ibbean, we have some materials that you may want to use as part of an expanded program like a VBS. Jeff first produced “Pirates” as a VBS for his home church last summer. Lillenas then picked up the idea for a musical, which required a rewrite for the market and the addition of eight songs. In the process, the theme was changed from “faith” to “storing up treasures in heaven”. Now, the bridge between the two is easily made by saying it takes faith to store up your treasures in heaven. The four stories in the VBS are about men who saw beyond the temporal to the eternal. Coincidently, their stories all take place on the water: Noah, Moses, Jonah, and Peter (walking on the water). For a more detailed outline of what is available click on Pirates VBS!
"The Missing Body of Christ" is the newest addition to our VII Ministry Series! This "Spy-Kids"-themed creative arts camp teaches children the importance of using their gifts according to God's plan for the church and culminates in a creative arts pageant for the community. Kids rotate through classes in creative arts, curriculum, and a choral element.
“Imagine That: Creative and Interactive Ideas for Teaching Kids the Bible” is a resource you shouldn’t be without! This teaching tool offers interactive storytelling, games, silly songs, object lessons, visualizing activities and other creative ways to teach Bible stories. Over twenty ideas in all!
"Generation to Generation: A Storyteller's Guide to Passing on Your Faith" is a follow up to our highly successful book, "Imagine That!" and is aimed at teachers for elementary age students. The book also takes a look at the power of story and role of the storyteller to affect culture. The book includes 20 different Bible stories, each with a creative approach to storytelling.
"Points for Praise: Putting Kids on the Path of Praise" - Praise is our devotion in motion and is an outward and visible sign of an inward expression. This excellent new resource, from Jeff Smith, that will help teach children's leaders concepts of praise and worship than can be integrated into your kids worship. Order your copy today!
‘Movement For Non-Movers’ training series offers several new videos just for the younger “mover”! "Fish Stix" is a follow up to our widely successful "TWIGS" DVD. The pieces are choreographed using middle school-age students, but the choreography is dynamic and dramatic and should not be limited to that age group. Songs include two Christmas pieces, "Breath of Heaven" and "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo 12/24." "Just Like He Said" is a Carman song for Easter with a fun, upbeat Latino beat. The last song, "Voice of Truth" by Casting Crowns" is a dramatic call to walk on water. TWIGS is choreographed for kids through six (although older groups will appreciate the simple but stunning choreography too!) and covers selected days in the church calendar year for special programming. "One King" by Point of Grace (Christmas); "Do I Do" by Carman (VBS); "Longer" performed by Jeff Smith (Father's Day/Mother's Day); "The Tale of the Three Trees" recorded by Jeff Smith (Easter). The "Knight Moves" training resource includes sign language/hand gestures, dowel rods, and tableaus. Our summer training resource “Beach Weak” uses beach props such as foam noodles, hula hoops, beach balls, beach towels and more to interpret such contemporary Christian song as “I Can Only Imagine”, “The End of the Beginning” and “When You Give”.
"The Lord’s Prayer" This is the first creative pageant developed for our VII series. The DVD includes seven creative art forms brought together by a story arc that serves as a framing device for a creative pageant. In the story, a teenage girl faces a moral dilemma and offers up a ‘flair prayer’ for help in the form of the Lord’s Prayer. She is shocked when God answers. The ensuing conversation that she has with the God voice teaches her more about God’s design for relationship and serves as a model for worship. Creative arts elements include God rods, rhythm movement, signing, banners and fabrics, storytelling, and more. This is a great resource for a creative arts camp, special event programming in the life of the church, or substitute for a Sunday morning worship service. Companion products include a CD-ROM of the script and CD of some of the music used in the performance.
"Knights of the Lord's Table" VBS Curriculum is a complete five-day, medieval-themed curriculum on CD-ROM that can be developed and marketed as a Vacation Bible School, Kid's Summer Fellowship, Kid's Crusade, Creative Arts Camp or broken up and fed into other children's programming at the church. The focus of the material is to learn about the armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-17 and four virtues: forgiveness, loyalty, courage, and honesty. The curriculum includes interactive storytelling ideas, object lessons, activity sheets, crafts, renaissance activities and an incredible dramatic play (presented in episodes throughout the week) that culminates in a wonderful opportunity to share the plan of God's salvation! The fifth day combines all the elements of the week into a fabulous and fun Renaissance Faire event for the entire family!
"Curses! Foiled Again!" is an original melodrama that will take you back to 1936 with 'Spunky' and his gang of odd ball characters as they try to win back the local playground from the town bully. Come cheer for our would-be heroes in a raucous romp through slapstick and sight gags as they fight to foil the foe!
Take a journey for the holidays! "The Joyful Journey" is an interactive presentation of the Christmas story for children! Join Mary and Joseph as they retell their story through traditional Christmas carols, drama and an interactive nativity scene using the entire audience!