Ever needed a life size robot worship leader for your church or youth group? Well your prayers have been answered in the form of Wally the Worship Leader. Wally’s features include:

You can always worship, even if no one in your small group can play guitar

Worships in ‘upbeat’ or ‘slow’ modes

Fully animatronic with moving mouth, strumming hand, and flexible hip joints

Folds into a suitcase

Programmable phrases like “Praise Him church” and “Let’s give the Lord some applause”

As if that wasn’t enough, you can also purchase a second character to add onto wally in the form of Pete the Praise Pirate! (He may even give Jim Bailey a run for his money ;))

Kids love his ‘harrrt’ for Jesus

‘Safety Hook Hand’ available as optional accessory (may limit number of songs Pete can play)

All of this is of course a joke, but part of a wider aim of TheChurchYouKnow to get people thinking about church and the unhelpful traditions, values and cliches that we accept as part of our faith, and to focus on the important and Christ-centred aspects of being a community of believers. From the site:

We intend to stimulate, to question, and to provoke – hopefully in love – the Church, because we love the Church. This love compels us to question some of the characteristics and practices we see in much of the institutional church… We do not claim to have a monopoly on what is best/right/perfect for the Church… we are genuinely frustrated and concerned by the issues we address and pray that each of them will become less a part of the Church you know.