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ChildrensMinistryPodcast.com is LIVE!

ChildrensMinistryPodcast.com is now live, as is my second podcast with Gus. The topic: Making Your Ministry F.U.N.! You can even subscribe via iTunes so you don’t miss an episode! MUCH THANKS to children’s pastor and voice and technical talent Scott Neubauer for his help in bring my podcast from the dream stage to reality. That’s his voice you hear in the intro and closing, and who is doing coordinating all the technical aspects of the podcast with Kidology’s web director, Steve Tanner. I’m very blessed to have such a technically skilled team here at Kidology so I can focus on the ministry side of things (and sit and talk with puppets!) Check out the latest podcast today!

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What Phil’s Up To

Hey, jump over to www.jellytelly.tv and see what Phil Vischer is up to now. (sorry, doesn’t work in Firefox, use IE or Safari) It’s exciting to see what is coming, and his message is right on! We need to engage new media to reach today’s kids, especially the ones that don’t go to church.

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Village Church Kids Ten Years Ago

Over the last two years I’ve been going through my hundreds of VHS tapes from over fifteen years of children’s ministry as a children’s pastor and came across a video recently that I made TEN YEARS AGO around this time as a children’s ministry appreciation video. This was in my pre-Mac days and so I had a lot of help from the youth pastor at my previous church, Jim Crouter, in making this. It’s been nearly two years since I resigned from the Village Church of Barrington and they have recently hired a new children’s pastor. I’m very happy for the church, but it has made me sentimental about all the many happy memories I have from eight wonderful years on staff there. (Josh, you snagged up the best CP job in the country!) VCB was a wonderful church to work at with a great staff and awesome volunteers and, of course, super kids! I know some of my friends there follow my blog so I thought they’d enjoy seeing what their teenagers looked like ten years ago! I still know the names of most of the kids in this video. Wow, does time go by fast! I miss them…

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A Walk Down Kid U Street

The Kidology Univeristy is coming THIS FALL! (And it will be bigger and better than ever!) In this ToyBox Tales inspired video, meet some of the speakers as Karl does some “man on the street” interviews with just a few of the presenters coming to Chicago this fall! You can also download a higher quality QuickTime version of the video for promoting the event at your church. (19MB) There are a ton of great conferences for children’s ministry but we truly believe you will be missing out if you skip this one! We have put together a Mega-Conference line up for a non-mega price! For our 10th Anniversary Celebration we have pulled out all the stops, and may never do a conference this size again. Kid U 2008 is the year not to miss! Great trainers like Jim Wideman, Greg Baird and more! Extended leadership workshops where the presenter gets time to provide personalized coaching and interaction. Over thirty volunteer workshops on Saturday, bring your team! God Rocks in Concert! Participate in a Children’s Pastor Kidz Blitz Live! Compete in the Sport Stacking Tournament! Small Dinner Groups with speakers and sponsors! AND MORE for under $200! REGISTER TODAY BEFORE IT…

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What Happened to the Bible?

Jump over to DiscipleBlog.com where I posted a thought provoking article on what I am calling the Bibleless Trend in Children’s Ministry. I am certain if you teach children the Bible you will find it just might give you pause for consideration – or encourage you if you are not part of this rapidly growing trend that has rendered thousands of evangelical children’s ministries void of actual Bibles in children’s ministry! Let me know our thoughts there on at this post. Go there now. There is a great discussion on the post on Kidology.org Join the discussion!

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