Our family was super excited about stopping by Disney’s Coronado Springs in Orlando for the 2012 Children’s Pastor Conference. Our goal was to meet up with Kidology founder Karl Bastian to show off Howard, our Kidology to Go motorhome at an informal get together at the conference.

However on our way down to CPC we received news about Patsy’s dad who had surgery down in Naples, Florida and was having a tough time with his recovery. Not knowing how things were going to far with her dad, we decided to forego the get together in Orlando. Still we wanted to stop in and say hi to Karl and take a stroll through CPC’s famous vendor room.

Strolling up and down the aisles of vendor after vendor at CPC is sort of like walking the miracle mile of children’s ministry! More than just a curriculum fair, CPC is a place to find all the latest tools, goodies and fun gadgets that children’s pastors love to use to spread the Gospel. Good stuff for sure, but having kids along with us, we got the royal treatment.

Brendan as the dragon

At the Group Publishing site a bunch of ladies wanting to demonstrate a trick involving hairdryers and hollow balls, grabbed our boys who were quite happy to play along. Later the boys were hijacked at a booth demonstrating face painting and balloon twisting. Once again they were happy kidnapees! Still another booth insisted on giving them magic canes and yet another some candy. Blake talked to a graphic artist who makes stills of Bible Stories for use in children’s church and a job offer for later in life!

Our family of five boys looked so great, we were handed five different CDs with Christian kid’s music!!

We did get to meet up with Karl at the Discipleland booth. He was very gracious and understanding, encouraging my wife to go and be with her father. When we were done walking to gauntlet our boys had a big bag full of freebies and they were all very glad to be there. They barely even realized they were on Disney property!