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, Starting with Children.
Below is linked the article from Moody Alumni Magazine’s 2025 Winter Edition.
It was such an honor to be included in the same issue as Alumni of the Year, Dann Spader, the founder of Sonlight Ministries – a ministry that had a profound impact on Karl in his high school years as a student leader being discipled by his youth pastor, Dan Gute in the Sonlife Youth Ministry Strategy, a philosophy of ministry Karl still employs today in youth and children’s ministry. A version of it can be seen in one of the first posts on Kidology: Philosophy of Ministry: The Program Pyramid (It is post 113 on this site out of over 25,000 posts!)
I hope this article will encourage you to both find and follow your ministry calling and to never give it up, despite the challenges you will face in life.
