• A Countdown Video (to start your service off with excitement and on time)
• 2 Worship Backgrounds (to make sure your worship lyrics look great on screen)
• 2 Motion Videos (to make sure you channel all the energy towards Heaven)
• 2 Lyric Videos (to make sure your kids can learn the message of the music)
• Chord Charts for all the songs (so you and your team can sing these songs live)
• A Sermon Bumper (to help you transition into your teaching time)
• 2 Weekly Devotionals (to help you connect the songs to the scriptures)
• 2 Coloring Pages (to help kids think creatively about the kingdom)
• Social Media Graphics Bundle (to go tell it on the mountain!)
• BONUS BLESSING – Bible Memory Video (because we wanted to bless you with MORE than you expected)
• DOUBLE PORTION – 2 Full Mix Audio tracks of the songs (so you can enjoy listening to them or add them to your pre-service playlist)

Essentially, it's everything you need to lead your kids to worship for two whole weeks (plus two songs). Keep reading for a step-by-step breakdown of all of our amazing content types and some great tips on how to use it in your Kids Ministry.

Audio & Video Mixes: Download Full Mix versions of every song to enjoy on a personal playlist, use during a worship service, or put directly into your Planning Center account to help your worship team learn the songs. Download to use during worship and customize your audio needs.

• Full Mixes: A stereo audio file (mp3/WAV) of a studio quality recording of the song, including vocals.
• Performance Mixes: A stereo audio file (mp3/WAV) of a studio quality recording of the song, with no vocals (think karaoke track).
• Click Mixes: A stereo audio file (mp3/WAV) of a studio quality recording of the song, with click and vocal cues hard-panned to the left and the Performance Mix hard-panned to the right. Use this when leading the songs live with a worship team. Send the left channel to front-of-house and both left and right channels to your bands in-ear monitors, keeping them in time with each other and the lyric video.
• Split Mixes: A stereo audio file (mp3/WAV) of a studio quality recording of the song, with Performance Mix hard-panned to the left and the solo vocals hard-panned to the right. Use this when practicing or leading the songs live with a worship team. Send both the left and right channels to your front-of-house and to your band's in-ear or floor monitors as separate channels. Increase or decrease the volume of either side to allow you to hear more of whichever audio you need during the rehearsals or live during your worship time.

Lyric Videos: Use these interactive lyric videos to lead your kids in worship. Play as you sing along, creating a visually engaging and focused time of worship.

Title Graphics: Use these pesentation templates as a creative way to communicate the important information or provie as a visual backdrop during your Kids Ministry.

Worship Backgrounds: Create a visual environment that enhances your Kids Ministry using visually rich backgrounds for lyrics and atmosphere.

Sermon Bumpers: Use this short video as a creative transition into teaching time or during your worship service.

Countdown Videos: Herd your cats Remind your kids that worship is about to begin by displaying these fun and enrgetic countdown timers on-screen.

Bible Memorization Videos: Sometimes called "Lyric Media," this content challenges your kids with fun, fresh Bible memorization songs, including word-by-word Bible verses and refrences to enhance retention.

Social Graphics: Download ready-to-use images of art, bible verses, and song lyrics to engage and encourage your online audience across social media platforms.

Print-Ready Graphics: Download high-resolution artwork, ready to customize in Photoshop and print at your local shop or online vendor. Order print-on-demand banners or print files for banners, bulletins, cards, and more!

Coloring Pages: Let your kids show off their artistic side with printable coloring pages, featuring relatable Bible verses or song lyric content.

Devotional Teaching Guides: Elevate your Kids Worship to the next level with a short devotional to use as a teaching time. PLUS, print a one-sheet to send home with each family that includes that week's lesson, Bible verse memorization, family connection activity, missional challenge, and activity for the week. Keep discipleship going on in the home!

So there you have it... we tried to simplify everything we have and de-mystify some of the jargon we've got surrounding all these amazing resources. These resources truly give you everything you need to put together an amazing Kids Worship time every week and allows you complete control to customize this experience.

If you have any questions about this - send us an email at hello@worshiptogetherkidsallaccess.com and we'd be happy to help!

Some of you might not know what I’m referring to when I say, “social media algorithm” and that’s okay! If you’re in that camp, you’re in good company. I know a lot of people use this term in conversation – but here is what it means in as simple as terms as possible. And while the following definition will be a gross oversimplification, it’s important that you understand what it is and to absorb it at some level so that as you approach social media for your ministry you can navigate with confidence.  

To put it as simply as possible, the algorithm is like a recipe tha contains a series of “if this happens, then that happens” priorities and criteria to rank, organize, and share content with the right people at the right time.  

Each Social Media platform has their own set of priorities and criteria but possibly the two most important things to keep in mind are:  

• Make it engaging – meaning does it catch the eye as someone scrolls by, and does the caption invite someone to do something like comment, like, share, etc. 

• Make it consistent – meaning are you posting things that look, feel, and sound congruent with a general theme or mood as well as regularly posting on your page or profile. Additionally, if you’re posting regularly it’s worth to post at about the same time every time you do.  

Rather than getting into the nitty gritty of every platform we’ll stick to the two most popular – Twitter, Facebook & In&tagram. And to make it even simpler I’m going to sum up what each platform is looking for at a broad level.  

Twitter  

Twitter is a great way to quickly toss out information in bite sized chunks. There are 5 factors that they consider when assessing an account:  

• User credibility: you will have a much better chance of getting your followers to see your tweets if you have a credible looking account, user name, website, avatar, and banner should all match and be easily recognized by visitors. If they see your twitter profile and head to your website, do these things seem connected?  
• Native content: Things that you make specifically for Twitter and that don’t link to outside websites are promoted more. 
• Recency: The more recently the tweet was posted the more likely you are to be served with it. 
• Time spent: If you spend a lot of time looking at a profile or particular person’s tweets, Twitter will assume you want to see this more and will save you the trouble of navigating to their profile and serve you the tweets in your news feed right away. 
• Engagement: Similar to time spent, the more you like, comment, retweet, or generally interact with someone on twitter the more you will see their content.  

Facebook  

Facebook’s current algorithmic mandate is to promote something they refer to as “meaningful social interactions.” Also known as – they want people to talk to each other! So things like:  

• Content that gets a lot of comment, likes, replies, and shares. 
• Live video. 
• Content published by users who have a strong history of frequent activity and strong engagement. However Facebook will penalize accounts using clickbait phrases such as “like, comment, and share”. They will reward you however for things like writing long-form comments and posting native content. 
• Links being shared by messenger between users. 
• Content that is published and interacted with by ‘credible users’  

Instagram  

While Facebook owns Instagram and their behind the scenes infrastructure is similar the algorithm is a bit different between these platforms. It’s true that Facebook prioritizes “meaningful social interactions,” Instagram absorbs this and takes it to a new level.  

• Relationship: The more you engage with an account (liking, commenting, getting tagged in photos, direct messaging, etc.) the more Instagram assumes there is a meaningful social relationship and will deliver you more of that users posts. 
• Interest: Instagram will do it’s best to predict how interested you will be in a post based upon your past user activity in the app such as what kinds of photos you look at (even if you don’t like and comment), what you’ve searched for, what you share, like, etc. 
• Recency: When you first open your app you’re likely to see things that have been posted within the last few hours before being shown older posts that they think you should see. 
• Following: The more people you follow, the less posts you will be able to see from each individual account.
• Frequency: When you first start browsing your app you will tend to see the best content that has been posted since the last time you logged in – no matter how long it’s been.  

OK great – now that we’re up to speed on the basics, how to we use them to build up the Kingdom? Be sure to tag relevant people such as leaders, your church, or similar. Always be encouraging – your social media posts should always edify, encourage, and comfort the reader no matter what. And lastly, stick to a schedule! If you create a social media schedule it greatly alleviates the pressure of being online all the time – that's not healthy, and we definitely don't recommend that. Keep reading to catch our social media sample schedule to help avoid this!

Each series we put out comes with an awesome pack of social graphics that are ready-to-use, this should take a good chunk of the work off your plate and free you up to post on a regular basis ensuring you’re reaching your audience and beyond on a regular basis with important information about what’s happening, as well as uplifting and encouraging content that draws the readers towards Christ. I’m going to start on Wednesday and move my way through the week to keep things simple. 

•  Wednesday (before the first Sunday you use the content): Post the “Series Graphic” for this series. Announce the upcoming series theme and mention how excited you are to see what God is going to do. This is going to create a great opportunity for excitement and anticipations for the week ahead, while also giving parents a heads up what the new topics are you’ll be covering with their kids is. You can also include in the caption of this posts any news you might have about your services ahead, check-in time, well child policy, reminders for parents to bring extra diapers, invitations to participate in food drives etc. 
• Friday: Post a “Song Graphic” for one of the songs you’ll be leading that weekend and talk about it’s central message, it’s scriptural foundation, and how much you love it or how excited you are to dance and sing along to it with the kids. This will allow parents and kids to get excited about the song that is coming up and you can use this time to add in any updates or announcements your kids and parents might like to know. 
• Monday/Tuesday (after your Sunday Service): Post the memory verse shortly after your Sunday you teach it. This way you can use this post to invite parents and students to re-engage with the content you taught them Sunday and remind them to do the family reading that accompanies the devotional. As a bonus to encourage engagement on your post you might think about asking them to leave a comment below with a short description of what God showed them in their family reading time. Or encourage people to comment that they read it. As a bonus you can upload your PDF of the weekly devotional to dropbox and link that in your bio using a split-link service like Link Tree so they can download it if they lost or misplaced it.
• Wednesday's (during a series): Post another social graphic from one of the songs you'll be using and use it to just simply encourage or lift up your audience. Invite the audience to share their favorite lyric from the song, or even a prayer request if they're feelind bold enough! This foster an online community and builds up your audience to know you're available for them and that you care for them.

Simple, right?! If you use these posts every week across all platforms and then pepper in pictures and posts of what’s happening in your unique ministry as you’re able, you’re sure to have a winning social media strategy that informs and invites people to grow with God.  

One last tip, social media doesn’t grow overnight. This is something you should try and stick to for 6-12 months and reassess if it’s working for you, and if it’s right for your ministry. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t have a ton of likes, shares, retweets, and followers overnight. Keep at it and in time, you should see this start to grow.  

If you have any questions about this - send us an email at hello@worshiptogetherkidsallaccess.com and we'd be happy to help!

For babies and toddlers, we suggest you focus on using our Full Mix audio tracks of our songs. Play the songs in the background to begin introducing the Biblical truth in these songs to your kids. There are many songs we offer that are more ballad-like, that would be wonderful, calm background music for your little ones.

For preschoolers, we suggest you introduce audio like we mentioned for the younger ones, but you can begin incorporating some video content and curriculum. The Hand Motion videos, found in each Kids Songs collection, will help your kids learn as they see other kids just like them worshipping God. Use these engaging videos to introduce amazing worship songs on a level they can best understand.

We also suggest using our Bible Memory Songs found in the "Lyric Media" section of our Kids Series. Here you can download songs that are fun, engaging, and will allow kids to hear scripture word-for-word from the ESV translation, including the Bible verse reference. There is no better time than their early years to start allowing them to hear the Word of God.

In addition, download our series Coloring Pages, found in the "Print-Ready" section of every Kids Series. Every Coloring Page focuses on a Bible verse they can work on memorizing. Also, every Coloring Page is connected to one of our 4-Week Devotionals, also found in the "Print-Ready" section. Download these one-sheet devotionals and use them as Teaching Guides for your groups. The devotionals are conversationally written, so anyone can read them to a group. We also include memory verses, game ideas, and fun things kids an do at home with their families throughout the week.

Elementary Age is where you can begin to see the full effect of everything Worship Together Kids has to offer. Use the "Print-Ready" banners and posters to let the church know what your Kids Ministry is up to. Download "Lyric Videos" and "Hand Motion Videos" of 1 - 3 songs to use in a time of worship each week. Incorporate "Lyric Media" Bible Memory songs, "Print-Ready" 4-Week Devotionals and Coloring Pages to create a full time of worship, learning, games, and crafts. Use our Kids Series "Countdown" and "Sermon Bumper" videos to set up your worship and teaching time. Customize each piece in a way that works best for your kids ministry!

Older Elementary works very similarly to Younger Elementary excpt you can do more songs (3 - 4) each week and begin incorporating social media engagement into your weekly ministry outreach. Our Kids Series "Social Graphics" allow you to post series-related Bible content and song lyrics as a way to engage with kids and their families throughout the week. Maybe this is a fun time to start a Kids Ministry social media strategy! Any way you can meet kids and families where they are and point them to the gospel is a win!

6th grade will produce your leaders. In addition to utilizing all we mentioned above, be willing to go deeper with them in Bible study. We've given you the basic tools to help kids learn important themes and stories throughout scripture, but now is the time to dig deeper, using larger passages of scripture and engage in further discussion. Start with the verses we point you to in the 4-Week Devotional and build from there.

Thank you for allowing us to partner with you in ministry. We're praying for you and can't wait to hear how Worship Together Kids is making an impact in your church! These resources give you everything you need to pull off an amazing Kids Worship time every week and allows you complete control to customize the experience.

If you have any questions or comments about this - send us an email at hello@worshiptogetherkidsallaccess.com and we'd be happy to help!