Celebrating 20 Years of Blogging

Celebrating 20 Years of BloggingOn 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,…