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2010-09-26T14:50:00.001-04:00

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Episode 8 - I have come to a decision!

2009-12-28T07:46:00.001-05:00

Click here to listen to podcast:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/heymonkey/episode_8.mp3

I have made a decision as to wether I should change the name of the podcast!
take a listen to see who won the $25 gift card to Itunes.

Music from the Bored Again Christian - The Christmas Sound

2009-12-25T07:42:00.002-05:00

Ch. 77: The Christmas Sound

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Episode 7 - Close to a decision about the Podcast.

2009-11-17T04:42:00.003-05:00

click here to listen to podcast:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/heymonkey/episode_7.mp3

Feedback shared by David Sweeny of the Catholic Family Podcast and Petra who left a message on the blog.

from Tangle.com http://connect.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=1ce5fb5f219e65fa78e5

check out a great podcast: http://catholicfamilypodcast.com/

This podsafe music was gratefully used. http://www.musicalley.com/

Dust Rhinos singing Wild Mountain Thyme

Junction pool performing cheetham hill

Junction pool performing BahHamburg

In about two weeks the contest ends...check out the podcast for details....win a $25 gift card to itunes.

Episode six - requiem! Death of a Podcast...or new beginnng?

2009-08-23T03:12:00.010-04:00

click here to listen to podcast:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/heymonkey/Episode_6.mp3

Is this the end of "Monkey in the Middle?"...or a new beginning? You decide!

Make sure you vote in the contest. win a$25 gift certificate to Itunes. Listen to podcast for more details.

Here are the links to the Orthodox podcasts/articles I mentioned:
http://www.ourlifeinchrist.com/
http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/eastwest

http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/tca_solascriptura.aspx

Songs used in this episode from http://musicalley.com/

Cheetham Hill by Junction Pool
BahHamburg by Junction Pool

The Monkey with the Golden Fez by Clouseaux

Banjo Pete by Switchblade 327

Tolkien: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Brobdingnagian Bards

Wild Mountain Thyme by Dust Rhinos

photo by Tammra McCauley, used under the creative commons lisence. check out here work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammra/

New Podcast coming----SCOUT'S HONOR

2009-08-12T04:26:00.005-04:00

Hey guys,

there is a new podcast coming in September....honest!

If not, then you can throw this water balloon at me!

email me at hey.monkey@YAHOO.COM if you like

Christmas Special Episode

2008-12-22T01:56:00.011-05:00

Click here to listen to podcast:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/heymonkey/Xmas_Special_Episode.mp3

Just shaing some Christmas joy an songs from http://music.podshow.com/

songs:

Admiral Twins Carol of the bells

Jenny Jussel Maxium Security Christmas

Colie Brice Little Drummer Boy

Lord Weatherby Santa Clause is freaking me out

Jill Parr Do yo hear what I hear?

Larry Sayer Jingle Jangle

special message

2008-06-04T14:43:00.006-04:00

New podcast coming next week.

a special hello to new listeners who heard about the podcast from Cliff Ravenscraft's "Generally Speaking- About the church, episode 33"

music.podshow.com for
Dust Rhinos singing Wild Mountain Thyme
Junction pool performing cheetham hill

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Episode 5- "Nobody's perfect but..."

2008-04-12T07:21:00.021-04:00

click here to listen to episode five

http://media.libsyn.com/media/heymonkey/episode_5use.mp3
Hey, this kid looks surprised that I'm back!!!!Well, I'm back in business, baby!....thanks for all of you who stayed subscribed!

I start out apologizing for the long absence and telling you how I am attempting a "Live" podcast, that is, a podcast in one take without so much editing.

In this episode we talk about one of my favorite podcasts "Rotten Fruitcakes", a short podcast about funny life stories by Yujin and her brother sam. You can find it on Itunes or put http://rottenfruitcakes.mypodcast.com/ in your browser.

we talk about the "Children's ministry director" position in the Church of the Nazarene and listen to a suspenseful telephone conversation to see if I was elected to the position in my local church!

Our "Topic of the day" is about We should not being able to do something perfect keep us from getting involved in children's ministry because "Nobody's perfect" but, on the other hand, we shouldn't let that be an excuse for not doing our best!

We share a story I wrote called The adventures of SuperDaniel

Devotion idea http://www.childrensministry.com/article.asp?ID=960

music used from http://music.podshow.com:

Cheetham Hill by Junction PoolBah
Hamburg by Junction Pool
The Monkey with the Golden Fez by Clouseaux
Banjo Pete by Switchblade 327
Tolkien: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Brobdingnagian Bards
Wild Mountain Thyme by Dust Rhinos
celtic mystic by Tiger Tail
Kids Today by Jordan Yaruss

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special message

2008-01-27T10:03:00.000-05:00

put this url in your browser to hear a special message:

http://cdn.libsyn.com/heymonkey/special_message3.mp3

This is a short, special message plus a song from Juaunita Warren:

Juanita Warren
"God Is Blessing You" (mp3)
from "I've Been Born Again"
(Bogalusa Music Group)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Stream from Rhapsody

Episode 4- "Merry Christmas, dudes"

2007-12-17T09:37:00.002-05:00

Our Christmas epsiode....Merry Christmas everyone

today we played back feeback by Pastor James who has a podcast called CM monthly which you can find on Itunes or at this link: http://cmmonthly.com/

Hippo picture done by my son Justin!

We read a christmas story (which is also printed in December 16 blog entry) called "a very peanutbuttery Christmas story" by yours truly.

We heard a walking tour of the kids delivering Christmas presents and we heard Christmas greeings from the kids.

we endedwith a freaky song called "santa clause is freaking me out" for all you santa haters out there! (jk)

these songs were played on this episode...you can ind them all on the podsafe music network:

"O come of ye faithful" by Twisted Sister (yes, that Twisted Sister)
"Cheetham Hill" by Junction Pool
"O come of ye faithful" by Uncle Seth
"Jingle Jangle" by Larry Seyer
"Silent night" Rich Palmer

"We wish you a merry christmas" by seven5seven
"Santa Clause is freaking me out" by Lord Weatherby

a Very Peanutbuttery Christmas Story

2007-12-16T05:01:00.000-05:00

A very peanutbuttery Christmas story
by jim of Monkey in the Middle

This story is written especially for the occasion of the Children’s Christmas Caroling of 2007. Permission is granted to copy, change the names of the characters and use for local church use.

One fine Saturday, Eliana and Nathan were playing a game of checkers. Instead of using regular checkers, the two five year olds were using chocolate chip cookies. Every time a piece was jumped, instead of moving it off the board, the winner got to eat it.
"Hey, Nathan, I think you are cheating," Eliana said, " This is your fourth cookie and you didn’t even jump any of my pieces."
"I’m not cheating," Nathan defended, "I’m just very hungry."
"Kids, put away the game now," Pastor Brad yelled from the other room, "It’s almost time to leave for Christmas caroling."
"I guess that means we can eat all the cookies now!" Nathan said happily. Nathan reached for all the cookies but Eliana said, "That’s probably a bad idea. We better just put the cookies away and get our shoes on."
"Okay," Nathan agreed, "but sometimes it’s no fun to be sensible."
Pastor Brad walked into the room and noticed that the cookies were back in the package.
"Hey, there were 24 in the package and now there are only 20. We were going to use those cookies to give to the people we sang Christmas Carols for. Now we don’t have enough. What happened to the cookies?"
"Maybe my camel ate them," Nathan offered.
Eliana gave her brother a stare that said, "Nathan you better tell the truth."
"Okay, my camel didn’t eat them,"Nathan admitted, "We were playing a game of chocolate chip checkers."
Eliana quickly offered, "Sorry, daddy, we didn’t know we needed those cookies for Christmas caroling."
"Alright, I know you didn’t mean it but now we have a problem."
Nathan smiled and yelled, "I got a great idea!" Nathan yelled this so loud that the dishes in the drainboard almost cracked. "We can bake our own cookies," Nathan said, "but instead of chocolate chips we can use peanut butter!"
Eliana smiled because she loved peanut butter. "That’s a great idea," she said.
"Okay, go ahead and take care of it then," Pastor Brad said and then went upstairs to write music. He was working on a new song he planned to sing on American Idol. But that’s a whole other story.
Eliana got all the supplies they needed for baking. Flour. Sugar. Mixing bowls. Eliana looked horrified when she realized an important ingredient was missing.
"We don’t have any peanut butter," Eliana yelled!
"I guess we’ll have to go to the store and buy some," Nathan replied.
"But daddy is busy writing a song and mommy is out at the mall and we are too young to drive ourselves." Eliana made this observation and it made her sad.
"Well," Nathan said, "It looks like we’ll have to take my camel."
Eliana was about to tell Nathan to stop being ridiculous when Nathan opened the back door and yelled,
"Come here, Spike."
All of a sudden a camel came to the door and Eliana was surprised. What surprised her was not that Nathan actually had a camel but that he really named him "Spike."
"Let’s go," Nathan said. So they both put on their shoes and out the door they went. Nathan sat in the front on the camel since Spike was his and Eliana sat behind her brother.
As they rode along, Nathan asked, "Why are we making cookies? I mean, why do we need to give gifts anyway? Isn’t it enough that we are singing with our lovely voices?
Eliana answered, "At Christmas, we love to give gifts away because that helps us remember that God gave us a gift at Christmas."
"God gave us a gift? Did God give us video games for Christmas?" Nathan asked.
"I think you already know the answer to that question," Eliana returned, "God gave us the gift of His Son. He was born in a stable with animals. God’s Son became a baby so He could grow up, show us God’s love and then die for our sins."
Nathan thought about that for a while and concluded that was much better than video games.
As they rode along, the two kids saw Samuel and Shellie playing in a park..Kirran was also there. Samuel had a football in his hand and was tossing it to his sister. Shellie didn’t drop it once.
"Hey, guys, want to help us make peanut butter cookies?" asked Nathan.
Samuel was always up for a challenge so he said, "sure."
"Wait for me, brother," Shellie said and the two kids jumped on the back of the camel behind Eliana. Shellie was very proud of herself because she wasn’t afraid of the camel. Kirran jumped on, too.
"Are we going to make cookies on the back of the camel?"asked Shellie
"No," Eliana said, "We have to buy some peanut butter at the store."
As they rode along they came across Emily, Amy and Michael. All of them were jumping on a tramper line.
"Hey, guys, hop onto my camel and go to the store with us!" Nathan invited..
"Sounds great," Michael said. He gave himself a big jump on the tramper line and landed right behind Samuel and Shellie. Amy did the same thing but jumped a little too hard and flew past the camel. Luckily, Michael grabbed her ankle and pulled her to the camel. Emily didn’t feel like jumping on so she took a near by step ladder and boarded the camel like a lady.
"Why are we buying peanut butter?" Amy asked.
"We have to make cookies for the Christmas carolers." Eliana answered.
"Giving gifts is an important part of Christmas, " Samuel said, "It helps us to remember that God gave us His Son for a gift.
Amy was satisfied with that answer and continued to enjoy the ride.
The camel came to a red light and even though it wasn’t a car, Spiked stopped, waiting for it to turn green. While they were at the light, they noticed Travis and Colin standing on the corner. They were busy eating pizza and hardly noticed the camel with all the kids on it.
"Hey, Travis and Colin," Nathan yelled, "Jump aboard, we are going to the store to buy peanut butter."
Both kids jumped aboard the camel but Travis dropped his pizza. He didn’t care much because he was down to the crust and he was getting full. The camel saw the crust on the ground and had a little snack and that made Travis smile.
"Why are we buying peanut butter," Colin asked?
"We are making peanut butter Cookies for Christmas. It’s always great to give things away at Christmas and not just get things." Eliana said.
Collin agreed and the light turned green so off they went.
They finally got to the shoprite and they all got off the camel.
"Spike, don’t run away." Nathan said, "We can’t take you inside the store."
Spike was not going to run away because he was too busy eating the pizza crust.
Inside the store they got the peanut butter and went up to pay for it.
"Hey, I just remembered something. We don’t have any money" Nathan screamed.
All the kids started searching their pockets but no one had any.
"What are we going to do now," Michael asked?
"Maybe we can trade the camel for the peanut butter," suggested Amy.
"No," Nathan insisted! "We have to come up with another way."
As they were standing there worrying, Alex, Jonathan, Evelyn and Olivia came by. They had pop tarts in their hands and were about to pay for it.
"Hey, guys can we borrow some money," asked Nathan?
Alex was going to say ‘no’ but when he heard that they were going to make peanut butter cookies he lent them money that he earned from mowing lawns the summer before.
The kids paid for the peanut butter and left the store. Spike had just finished his pizza crust and was anxious to leave. Alex, Jonathan, Evelyn and Olivia decided to join the kids on the way back so they rode back to the Nathan and Eliana’s house and made cookies. They were very happy because not only did they make enough cookies to give away, they made enough for them to snack on, too.
"And the best part is," Eliana said, "Giving away Christmas cookies helps us to remember that God gave us the best gift of all- His son Jesus."
The End

Episode 3 - "Thank you, Mister Anonymous Man!!

2007-11-24T06:34:00.000-05:00

You can listen to episode three by clicking here:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/heymonkey/episode_three.mp3

This episode is actually an audio thank you card to an anonymous man in our church who gave a gift to all the kids....I used the occasion of his gift to teach our kids that we need to say thank you....much of this episode are excerpts from our Back to School rally.

.....in our devotions for that night an ipod takes a swim...(see picture above)

we talked about a podcast called "Recovering Fundamentalists ."http://www.jeriwho.net/podcast/blogger.html

Here's the songs I used in episode three; you can find out more info about them from podsafe music network (http://music.podshow.com/):
Cheetham Hill by Junction PoolBah
Hamburg by Junction Pool
The Monkey with the Golden Fez by Clouseaux
Banjo Pete by Switchblade 327
Tolkien: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Brobdingnagian Bards
Wild Mountain Thyme by Dust Rhinos

Thank you by SmallFish

Episode 2 - "Kids and teens together???"

2007-10-15T17:19:00.000-04:00

Listen to episode 2 here: http://cdn.libsyn.com/heymonkey/episode_two.mp3

In this episode we talked about the relationship between kids and teens and how they can benefit both in a church setting.

we talked in detail about two of my favorite podcasts which we briefly touched on in episode one....Griddlecakes radio and the kido cast:

http://www.griddlecakes.com/

http://www.gokido.com/teachers.htm

We shared a story written by a woman named Beverly Hartwell called Polly's pals, about a girl who made friends with the rain drops.

We also asked for prayer for Beverly who is dealing with cancer now. You can contact Beverly at lilpencan@hotmail.com. Email her and let her know how you liked her stories.

We also talked about how we could use Polly's Pals in devotions for your kids.

Here's the songs I used in episode two you can find out more info about them from podsafe music network (http://music.podshow.com/):

Cheetham Hill by Junction PoolBah

Hamburg by Junction Pool

The Monkey with the Golden Fez by Clouseaux

Banjo Pete by Switchblade 327

Tolkien: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Brobdingnagian Bards

kids Today by Jordan Yaruss
Wild Mountain Thyme by Dust Rhinos

special message

2007-10-06T12:19:00.000-04:00

Click here to listen to a special two minute message!

http://cdn.libsyn.com/heymonkey/special_message2.mp3

Episode 1 -show notes "Super Events"

2007-08-24T21:18:00.001-04:00

In this episode we talked about the goals of this podcast.
We included interviews with some kids.
We talked about how we as children's Ministry workers should host "super events" so as to compete with a child's busy schedule.
The "super event" of messy games was discussed.
Tons of messy game ideas found here-

http://www.thesource4ym.com/games/sick.asp

and a few messy games are found here-

http://www.eventwise.co.uk/asp/Game_358.asp?CategoryId=101

and here -

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/kidsandstuff/kidsandstuff5.html#Messy

We spoke about the wonders of shaving cream when it comes to messy games: lots of mess from one can and EASY to clean off.

This is a picture of "the victim" for the catsup devotion...poor kid,...but she says she had fun...

This is when the kids had a minute and a half to have an all-out, food fight...then they all cleaned off with the water fight!.

Some other great podcasts:
The first episode is dedicated to Ron from Griddlecakesradio.com whose passion for podcasting inspired me to start one.

Also check out the kidocast from Pastor B. Follow this link and "click to listen" button. http://www.gokido.com/teachers.htm

Here's the songs I used in episode one; you can find out more info about them from podsafe music network (http://music.podshow.com):

Cheetham Hill by Junction Pool
Bah Hamburg by Junction Pool
The Monkey with the Golden Fez by Clouseaux
Banjo Pete by Switchblade 327
Tolkien: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by Brobdingnagian Bards

ITUNES

2007-08-20T03:02:00.000-04:00

I am having trouble getting listed on ITUNES....Can anyone give me some help on how to do that?

thanks,
Jim

2007-01-01T13:29:00.000-05:00

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-4ca9b0244d899bc388e92234ac4d6bf6}