Pastor Karl Bastian, children’s pastor and founder of Kidology.org – and graduate of Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Illinois, was honored in the Moody Alumni Magazine in the Winter 2025 edition. Karl graduated in 1993 and his wife, Sara, shortly after. (The article incorrectly dates her graduation much later.) Karl was the first Children’s Pastor at the Moody Church in Chicago, a church, founded as a ministry to children by the great evangelist, Dwight Lyman Moody. You can read more about Karl’s personal connection to Moody Bible Institute in his article: D.L. Moody: A Life Dedicated to Reaching the Lost,...

WOW! THIS is the absolute MOST AMAZING parenting resource I discovered at a recent kids ministry conference – it’s a MUST HAVE. Equip your parents in the most amazing way. You get 100 short, practical parenting tips videos to share with your parents, all searchable and indexed! Over 3 hours of training, but in bite sized video tips. My parents are going to be SO BLESSED by this. Learn more at: https://app.biblicalparenting.org/Xct11

Hello Parents! Pastor Karl here. I’m asked often, “Which Bible should I get my child?” Here are my recommendations for Bibles and some other tools to help your kids get excited about God’s Word! EARLY CHILDHOOD The MY AWESOME GOD Story Book Bible is ideal for parents to read the key stories of the Bible to their young children. Includes a topical index as well as helpful discussion questions to spur some spiritual conversations. LEARN MORE OR ORDER HERE  YOUNG ELEMENTARY As your kids start to read on their own, it’s important to get them a Bible they can read...

  Kidology.org has been Equipping and Encouraging children’s ministry leaders since the 1990’s – and on it’s current website for over 20 years. That’s quite the legacy, but it also means our platform is aging and starting to squeak! Kidology.org isn’t going anywhere – but WE ARE making some strategic changes, mostly to our Store and Membership processes. Bottom line, keeping up with industry requirements on an old custom site is getting too costly and tedious to maintain. The good news is that, if we remove all financial transactions from the site, the woes vanish! Kidology.org will continue to offer...

Calling kids to action today shapes warriors for Christ tomorrow. Don’t just inform — inspire action! Learn how to leave kids ready to live out what they’ve learned. A few years ago, a mom called me and said something had happened that she couldn’t quite explain and hoped I could shed some light. Her younger son, Gabe, had received five dollars in a birthday card from Grandma with a note encouraging him to buy something he’d enjoy. So off to the toy store they went. As they browsed the shelves, the boy suddenly asked, “What is Sam saving up for?”...

Capture Hearts Through Narrative Jesus taught through stories. Discover how a well-told story can lodge truth deep in a child’s heart. “Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.” — Matthew 13:34 I once heard a seminary professor say, “The shortest distance between the truth and the heart… is a story.” That stuck with me. And it rings even truer in children’s ministry. When we simply explain truth, we engage the mind. But when we tell a story, we engage the heart. And that’s where transformation happens....