Contact: John Yeng, The Austin Stone Community Church, 713-653-4712, john.yeng@austinstone.org

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 30, 2016 /Christian Newswire/ -- Austin Stone Worship is partnering with The Austin Stone Community Church KIDS Ministry and other staff members to release a revolutionary new kids worship album, "Only Jesus." The album will be released with a complementary devotional guide and interactive dance videos for every song. Preorders are available now through the album's release on Friday, October 7, 2016, and every preorder comes with two instant song downloads!

The album features 10 songs cowritten and recorded in collaboration by Austin Stone Worship and KIDS team members. Each song was created specifically for children and their families to have a powerful experience worshiping Jesus by singing, dancing, and exploring basic truths of the gospel.

"Our desire was more than to just make a good worship album for kids," said Jesse Reeves, Austin Stone Creative Director of Family Ministries. "In the end we wanted a full resource that would invite kids and parents to discover truths about God together as a family. We wanted music that families could sing along to in the car and at home, music that centered everyone's hearts on the truths of Scripture."

As though these incredible new kids worship songs were not enough to give children everywhere an exciting way to engage with Jesus, the team really wanted to take this album to the next level for kids worship. Coming free with the album, therefore, is an enriching Bible study guide for families to study the meanings of the songs and a full set of "Just-Dance" style interactive dance and lyric videos to show kids and their families how to dance and sing along to each song.

"While a kids worship album is a tremendous resource for teaching our kids to worship, with 'Only Jesus' we found ourselves wanting to go all out," said Austin Stone Worship Pastor Aaron Ivey. "What better way to enhance the worship experience than to create a rich theological study and some high-quality, high-energy, super-fun dance videos for families to enjoy together!"

For the devotional, the team behind the album produced a simple and helpful guide for families to study the songs' topics together. The Family Worship Guide is designed to help kids and parents study each of the album's songs twice over the course of a month. The guide's 20 studies lead participants to discover the rich truths of the gospel infused in each song.

"To pair with this amazing, engaging album, we wanted a family worship guide that parents could read to children and that older children could read on their own, so everyone in the family could learn rich theological truths," said Austin Stone KIDS Director John Murchison. "Above all, we wanted to make a resource that would bring families together to worship our King!"

"Only Jesus" is available for preorder now at the album website, www.onlyjes.us, and on the iTunes and Google Play Stores. Preorder today and get two instant song downloads! To share your "Only Jesus" experience on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, use #aswOJ.

For additional information, photos, interviews, music, and more, contact Austin Stone Communications Director John Yeng at john.yeng@austinstone.org or visit www.austinstoneworship.com/ojmedia.

About The Austin Stone Community Church
The Austin Stone Community Church was established in 2002 and has grown from a small gathering of 100 to nearly 8,000 weekly attendees. The mission of the church is to exalt the name of Christ in our city, our nation, and around the world, aiming to be a community who gives glory to Christ above all things and welcomes all people to join us in worshipping Him. Twelve Sunday services are held weekly at five different locations in Austin. For more information, visit www.austinstone.org.

About Austin Stone Worship
Austin Stone Worship is a collection of worship leaders, musicians, songwriters, storytellers, and artists serving and equipping the church with content rich in theology, mission, and expression. It exists to exalt the name of Jesus Christ here and now, always and forever. As a ministry of The Austin Stone Community Church, ASW is dedicated to proclaiming the beautiful gospel of Christ in their city and to the world, while challenging believers to live a fully devoted life to Jesus. They train worship leaders and artists, developing them in strong theology as well as practical skills through two-year worship leader residencies, internships, worship pastor intensives, and online worship leader development. For more information, visit www.austinstoneworship.com.