Celebrating 20 Years of Blogging
On March 1st, 2005, at 4:43PM, I published my very first blog post.
YouTube had just launched two weeks earlier. People were still using flip phones. And Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith hadn’t even hit theaters yet.
That first post launched a journey of 1,286 entries since, filled with ministry adventures, silly stories, serious insights, and the kind of real talk only a children’s pastor can offer.
I’ve written from hotel rooms at conferences, airport gates between flights, and late at night when I should’ve been asleep. I’ve shared victories, flops, tech hacks, heartaches, puppet jokes, and even a few rants (with love, of course).
This March 1st, 2025 marks the 20-year anniversary of that first post.
And after 20 years of showing up in the trenches of ministry and online, I’m celebrating with gratitude.
The blog is now moving to a new home here at Kidology.org, where it can live among the very resources it helped inspire. But the heart remains the same: to equip and encourage those called to reach kids for Jesus.
And while the blog began in 2005, Kidology itself goes back even further—to December of 1994. Back before YouTube, Google, Yahoo, or Facebook. Only Amazon beat me online—and by just one month. I was building digital ministry while most people were still discovering email.
Whether you’ve been reading since the early days or just stumbled across this now—thank you. You’re why I do this.
Here’s to what’s next!
– Karl Bastian
The Kidologist
