Grooving to the Oldies

This past Sunday in the children's worship, we were grooving to the oldies.

A new dvd appeared (not sure how it got there - I only know that it was there) that had motion songs on it, songs that were played 15 or more years ago for children but now have a more modern look.

After assigning instruments (we were cranking some mean air drums and guitars), we chose the song "Father Abraham." This song is one of those new classics as I found out from Dan and Jeremy - they still remember it from their Sunday School days and sang some of it for us during our Small Group.

When the song started playing, I thought, "yeah, these kids are going to get bored with this fast." All boys romping around and talking about their Star Wars figures, you can imagine.

But, they loved it. We played it at least three times. Then there were requests from the audience for another oldie but goodie, "Noah's Arky Arky" and then, "Zacchaeus (Was a Wee Little Man)."

It was really a lot of fun. We did have the videos playing on the television so that helped with keeping focus but the enthusiasm was all in the music.