My name on a sign!

Several churches from the area took advantage of this Kidology to Go. Bethany Evangelical Missionary Church was a great host and Children’s Pastor Tim Bryson really made this day a quality time of training, equipping and laughter! The church also asked me to speak on Sunday morning and I really enjoyed speaking with the church on the importance of reaching the next generation. Very cool to be with our friends north of the border!

The boys got to play hockey in the church’s gym! Well, floor hockey anyway.

Shelly Burkett

Children’s Ministry Pastor Shelly Burkett will be our host and from the looks of the church website she has got a really tremendous children’s ministry and attendees at this Kidology to Go will be inspired just by coming to this church and rubbing shoulders with this choice servant of Christ! Anyone in the Michigan or northern region of Indiana will want to consider coming to this fun, encouraging and sometimes crazy time of equipping! Register online before the day of the conference and get $5 off admission, just $10 for a great day of training! At that price you can bring your whole team.

Kids from First Baptist Church in Cadillac

Bethany Evangelical Missionary Church

Tim has been a faithful pastor at his church and employs a wonderful sense of creativity to all that he do. There will no doubt be many things that we all can learn just from visiting his church. Marty will also be preaching at the church on Sunday morning. His sermon is entitled “For Such a Time as This” and will cover the topic of the timeliness of discipling this generation of young people who may be as Josh McDowell’s call them the “Last Christian Generation” of the west.

Pastor Tim Bryson

Kitchener is close to Toronto, London, Hamilton and even Detroit - so anyone close to this area be sure to mark calendars and get online and register for this event. You can register for this Kidology to Go by going to the Kidology.org for $10 or register at the door for $15.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” -

Jesus

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Martin family in front of the "Angel" statue

We are super excited to be partnering with Only Believe Ministries Christian Center at 13815 Botkins Road in Botkins, Ohio! Our host Children’s Pastor Randy Waters and his team at Only Believe put together this amazing video to promote the upcoming conference on Saturday, April 28.

This Kidology to Go will have an expanded format and featuring eight different session options and live children’s ministry style worship. Registration will begin at 7:30 in the morning and this fun day of training will run until 4:00 p.m. Quite a bargain for $10 advance registration. Lunch will be available for $5 each as well.

Botkins is close to Columbus, Ohio, so anyone close to this area be sure to mark calendars and get online and register for this event. You can register for this Kidology to Go by going to the Kidology.org for $10 or register at the door for $15.

Patsy and our hostess Elisabeth

The original church building is a wonderful classic structure, a gorgeous place to worship. We enjoyed the Sunday morning sermon and a fried chicken lunch after church. Our young boys loved their time in children’s church and keep asking us to go back to “that cool church!”

Siler Presbyterian

We had around thirty children’s ministry workers attend this conference and we will always have warm memories of the people who came and interacted with us here!

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.