Perhaps you have attended a conference or class and said to yourself, “I wish I could take that material home and watch it again.” Or maybe you have wished that the CD you purchased at a conference included the PowerPoint presentation as well as the audio recording. CMUO4U gives you both. Soon, you can purchase quality children’s ministry training that you can watch or listen to over and over again.

CMUO4U will be providing an ever-growing collection of training mods taught by leaders in the children’s ministry field. Each stand-alone training mod is designed with your personal growth and enrichment in mind. Children’s ministry training mods will be available in budget-friendly segments so that you can invest in a course piece-by-piece or all at once as your budget allows.

• Renew your enthusiasm
• Enhance your skills
• Achieve a higher level of understanding
• Dare to grow personally and professionally

CMU214: Music in Ministry provides learners with foundational knowledge and experience for incorporating music in a meaningful way in children’s ministries. Topics covered include music history and theory, music in children’s worship services, children’s choirs, and technical arts associated with musical performance.

Some of the topics covered in this course include:

• Music and the Church
• Elements of Music
• Children’s Worship Services
• Children’s Choirs
• Sound Systems
• Projection
• Lighting

Be one of the first to enroll in the new Music in Ministry course by signing-up today!

CMUO courses begin monthly, so you can sign-up and begin your journey toward expanding your children’s ministry skills anytime. No matter whether or not you have taken an online course through CMUO before, you can sign-up today to begin your online learning experience as soon as September 1st. Simply logon 24/7 to cmuo.com and find out more details. Current CMUO learners or those who have already applied and been accepted to CMUO can register for the new "Music in Ministry" course at: cmuo.com/register

Registrations for September 1st courses will be accepted thru August 25th.

Free Workshop – Biblical Foundation for Music in Worship Services

Want to catch a glimpse of what a CMUO instructional presentation is like? You can view a free training workshop entitled, "Biblical Foundation for Music in Worship Services".

Additional FREE children’s ministry training workshops are available at cmuo.com/workshops. Find even more encouragement and children’s ministry ideas by listening to the Children’s Ministry Talk podcast at childrensministrytalk.com.

Have a question about CMUO? Contact CMUO Learner support at: http://www.cmuo.com/support

We hope to see you "in class" soon!

- Children’s Ministries University Online

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Children’s Ministry Magazine, as part of their 20th anniversary celebration, is spotlighting in its September/October 2010 issue, children’s ministry leaders who’ve made a significant, positive impact in children’s ministry. CMUO co-founder Dick Gruber was honored to be named to this prestigious list of children’s ministry pioneers!

Download the article here or read it in the upcoming September/October 2010 issue of Children’s Ministry Magazine

Please join the entire CMUO team in congratulating Dick and thanking him for his 30+ years of ministry to children!

Christmas is a busy time with church programs and family gatherings. Remember this year to take some time to relax with your loved ones. The elves here at our workshop have been busy this Christmas season creating more helps for you in your ministry to children. You will find at cmuo.com/resources a series of lessons we’ve prepared for use in children’s church. Check out our podcast at childrensministrytalk.com and have a great holiday. I found a fabulous item at onewaystreet.com called the Bible Story Bag. They have about a dozen to choose from including the Christmas Story and the Wordless Bag. I have used these both and always get good response form children and adult workers.

January is just around the bend. I hope that some of you will find me at CPC in Nashville. I’ll be the tall guy wearing red Chuck Taylors. (Those are shoes). I am also participating in the Assemblies of God Potomac and Penn-Del Districts children’s ministries retreats as well as the North American Children’s Ministries Conference. I look forward to meeting you in my travels.

God bless and quit putting off that continuing education. The cost has never been cheaper nor the information delivered more practical than what we offer at CMUO.com. Take a look and sign up for classes this new year.

Now to close in the words of Tiny Tim, “God bless us, everyone.”

His servant, your servant,

Additional FREE children’s ministry training workshops are available at http://www.cmuo.com/workshops.

Have a question about CMUO? Contact CMUO Learner support at: http://www.cmuo.com/support

We hope to see you “in class” soon!

- Children’s Ministries University Online

Join Dick Gruber and Jason Rhode for this first-of-its-kind 3 hour interactive online workshop where you’ll discover the practical steps to Cultivating a Cutting-Edge Children’s Church.

In conjunction with the National Children’s Ministries Leadership Conference, this pre-conference workshop offered face-to-face at the conference will be webcast live online on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 from 9:00am-12:00pm (CDT) and then repeated later that day from 1:00pm-4:00pm. View the FREE session online and interact with the presenters and other participants live online during the session!

Two identical sessions will be offered:

• Session 1: Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 9:00am-12:00pm (CDT)
• Session 2: Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 1:00pm-4:00pm (CDT)

Both sessions will be webcast live online using Ustream. To participate in the chat room to ask questions and post comments during the workshop, you need to login to Ustream. If you do not have a Ustream account yet, click here to register for free. Then, 10-15 mins before the session begins, click here to login to participate live online!

For those unable to participate live, the sessions will be recorded and archives made available afterwards at www.cmuo.com/workshops/kidschurch. Links to additional resource materials and the slides referenced during the sessions will also be posted there.

As a loyal subscriber to the CMUO e-News list, I wanted you to be among the first to learn of the reproducible children’s ministry art that I’ve created, compiled, and am making available as a FREE download! That’s right…this resource that includes years worth of my cartoon-style drawings is available for FREE!

Dick Gruber’s Evangel Art: Reproducible Art for Children’s Ministries is offered for FREE and includes:

• over 40 evangel pages
• 385 picture words
• 124 scripture pictures

All artwork is provided in .jpg format and can be easily incorporated into any word processing, desktop publishing, or presentation software. To request a free download of Evangel Art, simply complete the download request form at www.cmuo.com/resources/evangelart. You will then receive an email with more details for downloading your free copy.

2008 promises to be one of the most exciting years yet for CMUO as we will be releasing the final remaining courses for the 1 year certificate program as well as several additional elective courses. Stay tuned to the CMUO e-News list for more details!

We’re also looking forward to our first-of-its kind Live Interational Training Experience that we are calling CMUO LITE. You can either join us on the campus of Valley Forge Christian College or online for this unique conference event to be held October 9-11, 2008. We’ve got a fabulous lineup of general session speakers scheduled, including David Boyd, Dale VonSeggen, and Jim Wideman and you’ll also be able to choose from over 30 other breakout sessions. For complete details, visit www.cmuolite.com. To take advantage of the early-bird registration discount, make sure to register before May 1st.

We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you online or in-person in 2008!

]]> http://www.cmuo.com/evangel-art-free-reproducible-art-for-childrens-ministries.html/feed 0 http://www.cmuo.com/new-free-childrens-ministry-podcast.html http://www.cmuo.com/new-free-childrens-ministry-podcast.html#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:25:35 +0000 CMUO http://www.cmuo.com/redesign/?p=557 Jason Rhode and I are excited to announce a new children’s ministry podcast that we are calling “Children’s Ministry Talk.” While still very much still in the formative stages, this podcast will be talkshow style in which we look forward to providing encouragement for children’s ministry leaders, by children’s ministry leaders, on all things children’s ministry.

So…how exactly will we accomplish this goal? Well…we really want this podcast to be very much listener-driven and reallly be interactive. Every episode will be totally FREE and be filled with practical ideas, advice, and encouragement for anyone ministering to children. We want you….the listener…to contact us with questions or comments on anything related to children’s ministry. Also, we’d love any suggestions that you’d have for the “ultimate children’s ministry podcast.”

There are lots of convenient ways for you to contact us, all of which are posted at childrensministrytalk.com.

We plan to regularly have guests join us on-air to discuss various children’s ministry topics. Who knows…maybe you’ll have opportunity to join us on the air! More details are sure to come as we continue fleshing things out. Right now, we’re planning for offering a new 15-20 minute episode every 2 weeks.

In the meantime, we want to hear from you! Specifically, what questions do you have that you’d like us to talk about? Is there a topic that has been addressed in one of the CMUO courses that you’d like us to expand upon? Or, is there a situation that you are facing in your children’s ministry that you’d like some advice on how to address? You name it…we want to hear from you on it. We look forward to hearing from you, either via email, phone, etc. Let your voice be heard and get in touch! Complete details for contacting us with your questions, comments, ideas, or suggestions are at childrensministrytalk.com.

You don’t need an iPod or any fancy device to enjoy podcasts. You can listen to them for free either online or on your computer. And, if you do happen to have a porable media player like an iPod, you can certainly also listen to podcasts wherever you want. The CMUO course “Advanced Web Communications” provides an opportunity to learn a lot more about podcasting and even the chance to learn how to create your own podcast. More details about this course and to sign-up are at http://www.cmuo.com/admissions&registration/coursedescriptions.htm

We look forward to receiving your emails and voice comments as well as bringing you the next episode soon. Also, consider helping us spread the word about this new podcast by sharing it with others. All the details for subscribing so you don’t miss a single episode are available at childrensministrytalk.com.

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