Recordings for Young Children
16 Aug 2008 
in mid-afternoon 
Matt Winckler
We’ve been teaching our children The Catechism for Young Children, which is based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism. We have had great success in recording a CD with this catechism and some other things on it and then playing it during the boys’ “quiet time” in the afternoon–they are very adept at picking it up and memorizing it. Today I had occasion to re-record the whole thing, along with several Bible passages and the Apostle’s Creed. Since others have asked us about it before, I’ve decided to simply post the recordings here for all. Feel free to download, modify, and use it in any way you see fit. Be forewarned that the recording is of a solidly amateur variety (built-in iMac microphone and my own hideous voice), but you get what you pay for, and it’s functional.
You will find that there are a few differences between these recordings and the text of the catechism I linked to above at reformed.org. Mystie went through and changed all the King James passages to the ESV translation, and she also added four extra questions after Q15 that are used by our church’s Sunday school program.
The two compressed archives (childrens_catechism.zip and bible_passages.zip) contain all the catechism recordings and the Bible passage recordings, respectively. All recordings are in MP3 format.
Catechism for Young Children
- All files (ZIP archive containing all questions below, 7.2MB)
- Q1-Q10 (338KB)
- Q11-Q15 (462KB)
- Q16-Q21 (277KB)
- Q22-Q30 (419KB)
- Q31-Q42 (600KB)
- Q43-Q51 (532KB)
- Q52-Q63 (650KB)
- Q64-Q75 (503KB)
- Q76-Q83 (594KB)
- Q84-Q94 (840KB)
- Q95-Q104 (618KB)
- Q105-Q121 (974KB)
- Q122-Q132 (558KB)
- Q133-Q145 (751KB)
Bible Passages
- All files (ZIP archive containing all passages below, 2.6MB)
- Psalm 8 (409KB)
- Psalm 19 (706KB)
- Matthew 6:5-13 (472KB)
- John 1:1-5, 9-14 (472KB)
- John 3:14-18 (284KB)
- Colossians 3:12-17 (409KB)
- 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (253KB)
Christian Creeds
- The Apostle’s Creed (331KB)