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Become a 2009 Kidology Champion!

Last year God blessed us with 40 Kidology Champion Donors, and it was a huge help to our ministry. We also have over 700 Kidology Champion Prayer Warriors! Thanks for your prayer and support! Kidology.org reaches over 10,000 children’s ministry leaders and volunteers like you EVERY SINGLE DAY! We leverage the power of the Internet so a small ministry can have such a huge impact – influencing literally millions of children each and every month! But to reach so many we need your help! IT’S TIME FOR OUR 2009 CHAMPION DRIVE! Will you consider becoming a Kidology Chamption in 2009? CHAMPION: An ardent defender or supporter of a cause or team. A person who fights for or defends a person or cause. To support, defend, protect and maintain a cause. HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP US! 1. SIGN UP for the Kidology Champion E-mail List This unique newsletter is different from our regular monthly newsletter. These are personal updates from our founder, Karl Bastian, to let our Champions know timely and specific needs for prayer. It is sent periodically on an as needed basis, but rarely more than once a month. No membership or donation is required to subscribe…

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Grace is the Place

Ace is the Place? As I write this, I’m hangin’ out at Ace Hardware w/ the boy to get some keys made. He’s been cooped up inside for a week due to the extreme weather so we gave him an early birthday present just to discover it needed D batteries – of which we had none! But it was a good excuse to get out, seeing as it was a warm day today at 18 degrees. (Warm compared to this past week.) I’m standing in line, so why not blog? Anyway, turned out everybody and their mother-in-law went to Ace today for keys. (Perhaps I’m not the only one with the “buy 1 get 1 free” coupon!) But waiting in line and watching the Ace Man make the keys reminds me of when I worked at True Value in high school and got trained on key machine. It’s a pretty simple machine. There are clamps that hold two keys against two wheels. The only difference is that one wheel only rides the original key and the second wheel is a grind stone that cuts the blank. Both wheels are attached so as the operator runs the first wheel up and…

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CPC ’09 Nashville Re-Cap

If you missed CPC Nashville, it’s not too late to WIN SOME FREE GO FISH STUFF FROM ME! Also, I did SIXTEEN POSTS featuring some of the best resources at CPC, in case you missed any, here they are again: TimbukDUDES The F.U.N. Group Teaching Kids the Truth The Harvest in Plentiful The Art of Being Creative Have a Bible Blast! MY FAVORITE DISCOVERY:I’m a D6 Dad Let’s Go to Children’s Church Footsteps – Tools for Learning Bible Story Murals! A Bed in Need is a Bed Indeed BIG God, BIG Worshippers! WIN FREE GO FISH STUFF! POOF! A New Laflin! Super Church! YES! We can do that! It’s not too late to join me in San Diego at the second CPC of 2009: Discount Deadline for CPC San Diego – January 21, 2009 Register for the San Diego Children’s Pastors’ Conference (CPC) 2009 and save $30!!! Register Today! San Diego Hotel Discount Deadline – January 19, 2009 Make your reservations by January 19, 2009 to get the discounted rate. Lodging Info

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Managing Multiple iPhoto Libraries

I have often been asked to blog about Mac Tips (since I know a LOT of Mac secrets!) Well, tonight I responded to a fellow Twitterer with some help with iPhoto and after sending the e-mail, thought I’d post it here just in case it helps someone else. QUESTION: How to you combine multiple iPhoto Libraries onto one drive and access each of them? I recently combined all my iPhoto libraries onto one external drive because I had multiple iPhoto Libraries and it was getting a little crazy: Macbook Pro (2003-2006, and 2006-2008, i had started over when it got too big) macbook air (used when I travel) mac mini (family photos) mac G4 (scanning old family photos) But I got to where I had to keep switching between machines or remember which machine had which photos. I finally wanted to get them ALL onto my Mac Mini since it has the massive monitor and a double decker external drive for back up. While there is no easy way I know of to combine them all into one library, I actually don’t think you want to, every time I hit 10,000+ photos in a library it gets slow, because, as…

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8 Core Values of a Christian Leader

Reprinted from Leadingthewayforward.org 8 Core Values of Christian Leaders Based on global research, eight core values are essential for effective Christian leadership. 1 ) Intimacy with God God looks for consecrated men and women who lead from an intimate relationship with God. Biblical Foundation: Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father.” 2 ) Passion for the Harvest God looks for men and women who share a passion for those without Christ. Jesus came to “seek and to save that which was lost.” God desires that everyone be reached with the life transforming power of the Gospel. Biblical Foundation: Matthew 9:35-38 And Jesus was going about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the Harvest that He may…

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