Links

• Children At Worship - Congregations in Bloom 
  <http://www.childrenatworship.org>
  Motto: "Include youth in your worship service, and your congregation will bloom!" This organization seeks to help churches create a worship environment, in which "the children of God dare to respond to the awe and wonder and the mystery of God and God's gifts…"

• ChildrensMinistry.com 
  <http://www.childrensministry.com>
  Lyrics for popular children’s songs.

• Children's Music - Lyrics, Midis & Sheet Music  <http://www.mssscrafts.com/drama_music/musiclinks.htm>
  Links to lyrics, midis and/or sheet music for children's praise and worship songs.

• Children’s Music and Songs 
  <http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/songs.htm>
  Secular site published James Madison University. Offers links to lyrics, midi files, articles of interest, and other information.

• Children’s Music Web 
  <http://www.childrensmusic.org>
  Secular website with the goal of "bringing the often overlooked and underemphasized genre of children's music into the public eye." Includes a links page.

• Choristers Guild 
  <http://www.choristersguild.org>
   An ecumenical organization of directors of children’s and youth choirs.

• Inspirational Songs 
  <http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/inspirational.html>
  Lyrics and some MIDI recordings for popular children’s songs.

• Kid’s Worship Music 
  <http://www.worshipmusic.com/kidsworship.html>
  Commercial site selling recordings.

• Kidz Under Construction  
  <http://www.geocities.com/buildakid/songs.html>
  The words to several well-known children's songs, action rhymes, coloring pages, and other Christian educational activities for 3-8 year olds.

• Praise-Worship.net 
  <http://www.praise-worship.net/kids/index.html>
  Lyrics and guitar chords for over 60 children’s praise and worship songs.

• Youth Ministry Links
   

Online Catalog Subject Headings

children in public worship

children’s choirs

children's choirs.

choirboys - training of

choral singing - instruction and study

choral singing - instruction and study - juvenile

choral singing - juvenile

choruses, sacred (children's voices, 3 parts)

church work with children

sacred musicals - juvenile

sunday schools - hymns

Books

• Building the Youth Choir: Training & Motivating Teenage Singers, John Yarrington (Augsburg Fortress, 1990)  
  Squires Library - Circulating - MT915 .Y33 1990 
   

• A Child Shall Lead: Children in Worship: A Sourcebook for Christian Educators, Musicians, and Clergy (Choristers Guild; Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, 1999)
  Squires Library - Circulating - BV26.2 .C4 1999
   

• How to Lead Children's Choirs, by Mary DeLaine Allcock (Convention Press, 1991)
  Squires Library - Circulating - MT915 .A4 1991
   

• How to Lead Preschoolers in Musical Activities, by Rhonda J. Edge (Convention Press, 1991)
  Squires Library - Circulating - MT1 .E318 1991