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Kidology to Go coming to Charlotte, NC

Monday, March 5th, 2012

If you live in North or South Carolina or even Southwest Virginia, you will want to consider coming to our next Kidology to Go to be held in the greater Charlotte area on Saturday, March 17th. Our host church will be Siler Presbyterian Church in Wesley Chapel, North Carolina.

Siler Presbyterian Church.

The schedule for the day will start off with Kidology 101: relating to kids in their culture. The rest of the day we will cover “Keeping Control of Kids” for Workshop Session 2, split into “Engaging a Generation in Worship” and “Learning Styles” for Session 3, and “Blend” for Session 4. What a full day of learning, laughing and growing!

Children's Ministry Director Elisabeth Smith gets her nerd self going

Children’s Ministry Director Elisabeth Smith has a wonderful ministry at Siler Presbyterian and if you attend you will be encouraged just to look around and ask her and her team some questions on how things operate at this first rate church. The address for the church is Siler Presbyterian Church 6301 Weddington-Monroe Road Wesley Chapel, NC 28104 and the phone number is 704-821-7445.

You can register for this Kidology to Go by going to the Kidology.org for $10 or register at the door for $15. We look forward to meeting everyone who comes and sharing with you what God has put on our hearts after our experiences serving Him and kids in the local church.

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Spreading the Kidology word in Florida

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

We had a terrific time teaching at our latest Kidology to Go in Pinellas Park, Florida. Our host church, Calvary Chapel of St. Petesburg, was a perfect place to hold this training session. Children’s pastor Jim O’Connor is a delightful person who loves Jesus and His Word and kids!

Teaching at Kidology to Go

The participants were super and got involved and asked questions and interacted. Most importantly they laughed at my jokes!! All together we had a little over 30 people attend the session and we spoke on relating to kids, classroom management, learning styles and my favorite – creating crazy characters for kid’s church!

Pastor Jim O'Connor and the Kidology to Go RV

On Sunday we attended church at Calvary Chapel and we loved it. The children’s area are bright and fun and the teachers are very kind and welcoming. Pastor Jim has a done a great job of creating a culture that welcomes new people. The adult service was great as well. The senior pastor truly preaches God’s Word with clarity and boldness. I love it when a pastor actually preaches through and from the Bible! If we ever make it back to the area we will know which church we want to attend.

Bicycle built for seven

We stayed in a field near the church while we were there and got to photograph this little kestrel who was looking high and mighty on his perch above us! I love the way he flies like a little jet plane, swooping and diving and pulling up and switching directions. Sort of like a miniature F16! Even in the midst of teaching and preparing, God allowed us to see and photograph some wildlife, which has become a hobby we love!

After church on Sunday our family went to Firehouse Subs where our kids had the best time they have had in months, playing with their fancy soda dispensign machines (with flavor enhancers there are like 145 choices). After that we drove to the pier in downtown St. Petersburg where we rented a huge bicycle for an hour and peddled around the boardwalk. We saw lots of wildlife including a small pod of dolphins very close to the waterfront and some very cool birds called black skimmers. These birds look like a mix of a toucan and a seagull. We spotted a very large horse shoe crab doing his best to crawl bak out into the ocean before getting spotted by a predator.

The afternoon bike ride was a great way to see some of St. Petersburg and not very costly! We decided maybe next we should see America on a bike! Ha – not going to do it!!

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Next Kidology to Go in St. Petersburg Area

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Children's Pastor Jim O'Connor

We are so excited about our upcoming Kidology to Go in Pinellas Park, Florida (near St. Petersburg) on Saturday, February 25th! Calvary Chapel is the host church and is located at 8900 US-19 N, Pinellas Park, FL 33782. You can contact Children’s Pastor Jim O’Connor or Tatum Bueller for directions at 727.577.7705. The schedule for this Kidology to Go will be slightly different than others, running from 8:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

Calvary Chapel in St. Petersburg is a large non-denominational church with an impact children’s ministry. We hope that you will be equally encouraged and challenged by the teaching sessions and the exposure you will receive from this quality ministry! I look forward to meeting you at this Kidology to Go. Please register at Kidology.org (pre-registration is $10) and then let Calvary Chapel know if you need childcare by registering for it at their website here.

Children's Ministry at Calvary Chapel in action!

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CPC Orlando

Monday, January 16th, 2012

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!

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