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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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Another success in Mattoon

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Tanner in front of the beautiful Mattoon church

We had another wonderful time at the most recent Kidology to Go in Mattoon, Illinois. Our host church was First United Methodist of Mattoon. This church has quite a history in the area and the building is over 100 years old. The church building is made of stone and looks amazing! Blake was excited to see the old building that looks like a castle because of its unique architecture.

Youth and Children’s Ministry Director Brad Waggoner was a gracious host and several members of his team were on hand to take part in the day’s training. Two other churches sent volunteers as well and we had a good atmosphere in the place. My wife taught her seminar on Engaging a generation in worship for the first time and it went quite well. We also split groups for the first time and offered an elective, so Patsy and I both taught workshops at the same time.

We stayed at one of the volunteers homes where we plugged in Howard our RV and had a couple of fantastic meals and the boys played board games and the Knex and played on their swing set. We thank all those who helped make this Kidology to Go a big success!

Eager learners gathered 30 minutes before start time!

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Mattoon, Illinois Kidology to Go

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Reminder – Kidology to Go scheduled for September 10th in Mattoon, Illinois is just around the calendar corner!! Be sure to reserve your spot today!

Brad Waggoner

We are excited to announce another Kidology to go has been booked for September 10, 2011 in Mattoon, Illinois. Children’s Pastor Brad Waggoner and the Mattoon United Methodist Church will be our hosts for this event.

Mattoon is in central Illinois, near Decatur. Churches near Champaign, Springfield, Peoria, Bloomington and Terre Haute, Indiana take special note of this date and begin making plans to attend this extremely affordable yet quality training event. Be sure to invite your entire volunteer staff! You can register for this Kidology to Go on Kidology.org or by going to this link.

Mattoon First United Methodist Church

If have any questions you can email Marty Martin at marty.martin@kidology.org or Pastor Brad Waggoner at Brad Waggoner at ypbrad@gmail.com and we will get right back to you!

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Success at Locust Grove!

Monday, November 8th, 2010

With our first Kidology to Go under our belts, I can honestly say that we could never have been blessed with a better host church than Locust Grove Free Will Baptist Church. Children’s Pastor Jacob Myers is an upcoming young star who was not only organized and thoughtful but was also a kind and gracious host, along with his wife Sarah and the rest of their staff and volunteers.

Having Kidology founder Karl Bastian and his son Luke at the first Kidology to Go was another amazing boost to the kick-off event. He opened the event by teaching the banner workshop, Kidology 101 as only a passionate professional can. He also helped us to learn the ropes and encouraged us along the way.

The attendees were engaged and participated in some of our more active workshops. Their interaction and feedback was very helpful and their energy for reaching children for Christ was contagious! They came from as far as away as 160 miles! What an amazing event it was for everyone involved and how great it was to meet some new friends in the children’s ministry realm. Thank God for His goodness in putting all the right pieces together for this event!

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Kidology to Go in Wichita, KS

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

One of the exciting things about traveling around the continent is that I will be meeting up with people I haven’t seen in a super long time. Our third Kidology to Go will be just that!

Asbury Church

Asbury Church - Central Campus

On Saturday, November 20th Asbury Church in Wichita, Kansas will be hosting a Kidology to Go. Asbury has four campuses, and their Central Campus Children’s Pastor Jerred Haydock will spearhead this event for us. The event will also take place at their central campus at 2801 West 15th Street, Wichita, KS 67203. Pastor Jerred has a very active and exciting ministry at Asbury called Blast Kid’s Ministry, where their mission is To see every child grow up the same way Jesus did “in wisdom stature, and favor with God and man.”

Pastor Jerred

Asbury holds a special place for me because I once served as Children’s Pastor there a decade ago. Many of the people we knew at Asbury are still there serving and growing in Jesus, including their senior pastor Dennis Wallace and his wife Ladonna.  Wichita is a great city but has gone through a lot since 9/11 because it’s economy is closely tied to the airline industry. I look forward to coming back to this tremendous church and city to bring some training, inspiration and fun!! Register online if you live in Kansas or Oklahoma or even Texas!

BLAST kick off party at Asbury

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