Nigel Hemming's Page
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- Have you had any formal training for your role
- I worked as a musician, then as a primary school teacher several years ago. Apart from that its been pretty much on the job!
- Hometown:
- Birmingham
- What church denomination do you belong to
- Vineyard - I work for Vineyard Network Church Birmingham.
- What type of work with children are you involved in
- Church based children's ministry: Working with my wife Jo, we have been leading the 0-11's teams in our church since 1995.
Community & Schools: I teach in the local primary school promoting positive values and have been involved in starting and running a number of after school & holiday kids clubs..
Worship: I have lead children's and all age worship for even longer & over the years have written songs for kids to sing in churches, schools, clubs and at home and helped to produce the Great Big God series of worship CD's.
Family: We have three fantastic kids of our own which as you can imagine is a full time job in itself with amazing challenges and rewards.
- Are you a volunteer or an employee
- Full time church worker
- Are you part of a local network of childrens workers, if so give details
- I'm part of x:site Birmingham which is led by a comitted and passionate local team.
I also co-ordinate a Children's Task force for Vineyard Churches UK with some fantastic people from across the UK. We are looking at how to help develop great children's ministry across the 100 or so UK Vineyard churches and church plants.
- Which of the following interest groups might you be interested in
- Churched Child, Unchurched Child, Children and Culture, Parenting and Family
- Do you train others - please give details
- I have led seminars on most aspects of children work and especially on kids worship. I'm especially passionate about equipping others to work with kids in a longer term sustainable way!
You can find articles, resources and links to some of the music I've been involved with on www.greatbiggod.com
Nigel Hemming's Blog
Announcing... Great Big God - the DVD!
So it's 3 years after the last Great Big God albums came out and we're in the planning process for our first ever GBG DVD. We're planning an all singing, all dancing live music extravaganza which should capture the essence of a GBG event so anyone can join in from the comfort of their living room. We'll be filming in October and aiming to release in March 09. We've got a great team together - including some old faithfuls & some brand new talent and to be honest we're well excited about the w… Continue
Posted on July 17, 2008 at 10:32pm — 3 Comments
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I still find 40 really inspiring. Go to www.emergingchurch.info/stories/40/index.htm and you can read a bit about it and details of how to order it are at the end of the page.
Enjoy! Grace and peace at Easter.
Alan
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