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G'day

The trouble with teaching theology to children is that they believe you. So you’d better be careful! Here are some tried and true songs, all fully tested at various kids clubs and beach missions and known to work. You’ll find some of them a bit raucous, so that kids, particularly boys, will like them.

Kids don’t understand all that much, so it’s been kept simple: God made you and God loves you is the basic message. One rector I know has almost made God doesn’t like it when I’m bad, but he still loves me his theme song.

My thanks go to John Lane of Scripture Union Australia for his permission to publish his words of Wide, wide as the oceans. It remains the best boys songs ever written as you get to hit the person next to you while you’re singing it. The new words are much clearer and so you no longer have to be like my mother, who used to sing:

I though so unworthy, still I’m the top of his head........

My thanks go to my family for putting up with me and letting me know which songs were any good and to Simon and Joshua for the backing singing. Also to Jeremy Mills for his help with the arrangement of Even When I’m In Trouble.

Feel free to copy this material in any form if you need to for the use of one church or community, but please, don’t copy the tape or the music to give to someone else. God loves a cheerful giver. Buy them one!

I am available to come and sing these songs to you (02 4821 9248). but as I am a professional performer there is a fee involved.

May God richly bless you as you use these songs. And remember, heresy though it may be: God is better than football.

Keith Binns.

Keith Binns lives in Goulburn NSW with his wife and two boys. He has been a professional entertainer for many years, including a West End show and a Royal Command Performance in 1982, a major show in Sydney and Brisbane in 1985 and subsequent work for the Australian Opera (off and on for 7 years), club work with a barbershop quartet, theatre restaurant, and shopping centres shows. His current work is mostly his one-man pre-school show (The Keith and Sleepy Show) which he does in pre-schools. He also teaches keyboard to children.

Keith attends North Goulburn Anglican Church and helps with the weekly Kids Club as well as voluntary gaol work in Sydney. He learnt his children’s entertaining trade at Beach Mission (7 years) and then in London. He can be contacted on 02 4821 9248.

Glenn Cupit lives in Adelaide and has been involved with children’s ministry longer than he cares to remember, including countless years at Beach Mission in both NSW and South Australia. He is Senior Lecturer in Child Development at the deLissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies. His PhD topic is Spirituality and Childhood. He is also a very good jazz bass player.

This album was recorded at Keith’s home on a Yamaha 120S four track and at Si-Fonic Studios, Goulburn (Thanks to Peter, Peter and Ron), where it was also mixed onto Dat. It was digitally mastered at Soundview Studios at Wentworth Falls. The music is Cubase Version 2 working a Yamaha SY35 Synthesiser and the vocals Keith Binns with assistance from Joshua and Simon Binns.