{"id":31875,"date":"2018-10-26T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T22:24:30","slug":"cue-the-christmas-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/blog\/seasonal-events\/cue-the-christmas-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue the Christmas Music! A Note from Joani Schultz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I love music.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I love Christmas.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And I\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0love Christmas music!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, somehow, sometime around Thanksgiving, someone flips a switch that alerts sound systems everywhere\u00a0<em>(even elevator music)<\/em>\u00a0to play Christmas tunes. School concerts, church community choirs, shopping centers, Pandora\u2026there\u2019s special music in the air!<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026have you noticed over the years a strange thing began to happen? Classic Christmas music morphed from incredible stories of Jesus\u2019 birth to roasting chestnuts, partridges in pear trees, and other warm and fuzzy traditions that became \u201cChristmas.\u201d Like perfectly wrapped packages with nothing inside, Christmas music lost its reason.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong; I don\u2019t have anything against jingle bells, Frosty, or Rudolph. But I long for kids to know our Christian musical roots that touch our hearts this time of year. I want our granddaughter, Cadence, to grow up singing carols.\u00a0<em>(Do you sense a musical theme here?)<\/em>\u00a0What if our children\u2019s ministries could give the gift of\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jesus-centered music:<\/strong>Beautiful, memory-making lyrics that point to Jesus. No longer will Christmas be the planet\u2019s biggest birthday party that\u2019s forgotten the guest of honor!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Music that\u2019s stood the test of time:<\/strong>\u201cWhat Child is This?\u201d \u201cO Little Town of Bethlehem,\u201d \u201cHark! the Herald Angels Sing,\u201d \u201cGo, Tell It On the Mountain.\u201d Beloved songs our grandparents and\u00a0<em>their<\/em>\u00a0parents sang.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contemporary music videos featuring kids like them:\u00a0<\/strong>Kids everywhere love our VBS music videos\u2014so now you can bring favorite Christmas music to the singalong screen for your ministry and home. Plus, the actions make the songs even more memorable for kids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Behind-the-scenes nuggets:<\/strong>Did you know\u2026<\/li>\n<li>The words to \u201cWhat Child Is This?\u201d weren\u2019t written by a musician or poet but by a man who sold ship insurance.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGo, Tell It on the Mountain\u201d was an African-American spiritual sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers who toured the country to raise money for their college.<\/li>\n<li>A Sunday school teacher\u2019s trip to Bethlehem inspired the song \u201cO Little Town of Bethlehem.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The tune to \u201cHark! the Herald Angels Sing\u201d wasn\u2019t written to celebrate the birth of Jesus but rather the birth of the printing press!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group.com\/product\/9781470755423-kidmin-quick-picks-more-songs-of-christmas-download.do?from=ac\"><em>MORE Songs of the Christmas Story<\/em><\/a>\u00a04-week lesson pack contains all this and more! Available in both a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group.com\/product\/9781470751296-kidmin-quick-picks-songs-of-christmas-download.do?sortby=ourPicks&amp;ecList=15&amp;ecCategory=\">download<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group.com\/product\/9781470751302-kidmin-quick-picks-songs-of-christmas-book.do\">book with DVD<\/a>\u2014choose the one that best fits your needs. Need more carols for your Christmas playlist? Check out <em>Songs of the Christmas Story,<\/em> featuring \u201cJoy to the World,\u201d \u201cAngels We Have Heard On High,\u201d \u201cSilent Night,\u201d and \u201cO Come, All Ye Faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Use this special edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group.com\/category\/ministry-resources\/childrens-ministry\/lesson-downloads.do#_ga=2.208210641.270100724.1540220285-889141011.1524666641\"><strong>KidMin Quick Picks<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to give these Jesus-centered gifts to kids in your children\u2019s ministry this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<br \/>\nJoy!<br \/>\n<strong><em>Joani Schultz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love music.\u00a0 I love Christmas. And I\u00a0really\u00a0love Christmas music! Somewhere, somehow, sometime around Thanksgiving, someone flips a switch that alerts sound systems everywhere\u00a0(even elevator music)\u00a0to play Christmas tunes. School concerts, church community choirs, shopping centers, Pandora\u2026there\u2019s special music in the air! But\u2026have you noticed over the years a strange thing began to happen? Classic Christmas music morphed from incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":31879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasonal-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cue the Christmas Music! 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