Minno (formerly JellyTelly) has just launched an excellent free resource to help people have church at home with their children. See:
How to have church at home as a family (explanatory blog post)
Church at home (the resource itself)
Minno is a website with Christian childrens videos. They have the really good quality and well known Christian kids shows (e.g. Vegetales), the cheaply made volunteer shows, and everything in-between. It's a subscription service, we use it as our source of Saturday morning kids cartoons. I very strongly recommend it.
In this free resource, they have taken a selection of their best videos to inform children's biblical understanding, and made them available for free. These are not low-quality, they are actually the top end of what is available. They have released for free three entire series of worship music, and six series of educational and devotional videos. Many hours of high quality content, including:
What's In The Bible: Phil Vischer (creator of Vegetales) explaining the Bible from start to finish in a long series of half-hour episodes, with puppets. This is a fantastic video series, we went through it all with the children last year and are now going back through it again.
Superbook: CBN's very well-made animation of key Biblical events, with take-home messages for some time-travelling children who get caught up in it all. Possibly the highest quality bible-story series available, originally made for missionary use in Japan, and has been translated into 43 languages and used by missionaries around the world for decades. Originally an anime cartoon, this is the latest version re-animated in a modern CGI style.
Theo: Big theology for little kids. We haven't used this one much yet, but it is excellent also, and written specifically for teaching the fundamentals of the faith to children, accurately yet understandably.
The above shows are popular enough to be widely available on DVD from Christian bookstores - at very expensive prices. Having them available for free is revolutionary.
This is very well worth checking out for anybody looking to train their children at home. All these are great to watch with children, and then use as the basis for a biblical discussion.
If you like it, I would suggest subscribing to the entire service to support them, it's fairly affordable and well worth it. The resources they have made available for free are some of the top ones available, and they are taking a considerable financial risk in making stuff from the top shelf free, as there's a real risk people will just use these for free and not pay for their real cost of delivering the service. If this free resource becomes popular their server costs could increase substantially. Also, the creators of the above videos are taking a major risk by allowing them to be shared for free, as they may lose income from DVD sales etc. If you subscribe, you get access to the entire Vegetales series for far less than it would cost to buy on DVDs, plus Torchlighters (real lives of Christian martyrs), and many other great shows!
How to have church at home as a family (explanatory blog post)
Church at home (the resource itself)
Minno is a website with Christian childrens videos. They have the really good quality and well known Christian kids shows (e.g. Vegetales), the cheaply made volunteer shows, and everything in-between. It's a subscription service, we use it as our source of Saturday morning kids cartoons. I very strongly recommend it.
In this free resource, they have taken a selection of their best videos to inform children's biblical understanding, and made them available for free. These are not low-quality, they are actually the top end of what is available. They have released for free three entire series of worship music, and six series of educational and devotional videos. Many hours of high quality content, including:
What's In The Bible: Phil Vischer (creator of Vegetales) explaining the Bible from start to finish in a long series of half-hour episodes, with puppets. This is a fantastic video series, we went through it all with the children last year and are now going back through it again.
Superbook: CBN's very well-made animation of key Biblical events, with take-home messages for some time-travelling children who get caught up in it all. Possibly the highest quality bible-story series available, originally made for missionary use in Japan, and has been translated into 43 languages and used by missionaries around the world for decades. Originally an anime cartoon, this is the latest version re-animated in a modern CGI style.
Theo: Big theology for little kids. We haven't used this one much yet, but it is excellent also, and written specifically for teaching the fundamentals of the faith to children, accurately yet understandably.
The above shows are popular enough to be widely available on DVD from Christian bookstores - at very expensive prices. Having them available for free is revolutionary.
This is very well worth checking out for anybody looking to train their children at home. All these are great to watch with children, and then use as the basis for a biblical discussion.
If you like it, I would suggest subscribing to the entire service to support them, it's fairly affordable and well worth it. The resources they have made available for free are some of the top ones available, and they are taking a considerable financial risk in making stuff from the top shelf free, as there's a real risk people will just use these for free and not pay for their real cost of delivering the service. If this free resource becomes popular their server costs could increase substantially. Also, the creators of the above videos are taking a major risk by allowing them to be shared for free, as they may lose income from DVD sales etc. If you subscribe, you get access to the entire Vegetales series for far less than it would cost to buy on DVDs, plus Torchlighters (real lives of Christian martyrs), and many other great shows!
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