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Karl Honored in Moody Alumni Magazine

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:…

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The BEST Parent Training Resource EVER!

WOW! THIS is the absolute MOST AMAZING parenting resource I discovered at a recent kids ministry conference – it’s a MUST HAVE. Equip your parents in the most amazing way. You get 100 short, practical parenting tips videos to share with your parents, all searchable and indexed! Over 3 hours of training, but in bite sized video tips. My parents are going to be SO BLESSED by this. Learn more at: https://app.biblicalparenting.org/Xct11

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Pastor Karl’s Recommened Kids Bibles

Hello Parents! Pastor Karl here. I’m asked often, “Which Bible should I get my child?” Here are my recommendations for Bibles and some other tools to help your kids get excited about God’s Word! EARLY CHILDHOOD The MY AWESOME GOD Story Book Bible is ideal for parents to read the key stories of the Bible to their young children. Includes a topical index as well as helpful discussion questions to spur some spiritual conversations. LEARN MORE OR ORDER HERE  YOUNG ELEMENTARY As your kids start to read on their own, it’s important to get them a Bible they can read and enjoy. Please, if you want your child to learn and grow from God’s Word, don’t buy them one with tiny print, no pictures in an ancient translation. I recommend The NIrV Adventure Bible! The NIrV is the young readers edition of this fun, interactive Bible that helps children learn about what they are reading through helpful info presented throughout the Bible. LEARN MORE OR ORDER HERE UPPER ELEMENTARY Your preteen children can really start to master the Word of God! Here are some exciting options for them! The Action Bible is the entire Bible presented in very cool comic…

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Big Kidology News: It’s Time for a TWOFER!

  Kidology.org has been Equipping and Encouraging children’s ministry leaders since the 1990’s – and on it’s current website for over 20 years. That’s quite the legacy, but it also means our platform is aging and starting to squeak! Kidology.org isn’t going anywhere – but WE ARE making some strategic changes, mostly to our Store and Membership processes. Bottom line, keeping up with industry requirements on an old custom site is getting too costly and tedious to maintain. The good news is that, if we remove all financial transactions from the site, the woes vanish! Kidology.org will continue to offer THOUSANDS of creative children’s ministry ideas and resources, but without the mess of dealing with credit cards and financial transactions. We’re keeping the ideas on Kidology.org but moving all financial transactions to a new modern platform. THEREFORE: We are no longer accepting new memberships to Kidology.orgON Kidology.org. Instead, we are encouraging folks to join KarlBastian.club, our new coaching and content site – where resources will continue to grow and where our New Store will be hosted going forward. So, what’s the benefit to you? When you join KarlBastian.club, you’ll also get a free membership to Kidology.org! Please visit and read our…

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Kid Communicator Secret #12: End with a Challenge – Move Kids from Hearing to Doing

Calling kids to action today shapes warriors for Christ tomorrow. Don’t just inform — inspire action! Learn how to leave kids ready to live out what they’ve learned. A few years ago, a mom called me and said something had happened that she couldn’t quite explain and hoped I could shed some light. Her younger son, Gabe, had received five dollars in a birthday card from Grandma with a note encouraging him to buy something he’d enjoy. So off to the toy store they went. As they browsed the shelves, the boy suddenly asked, “What is Sam saving up for?” Sam was his older brother. His mom replied, “He’s saving up for a Spider-Man action figure.” That’s when the boy shocked her by saying, “Then that’s what I want to buy.” Assuming he was trying to make his brother jealous, she told him, “No, you need to get something different. I don’t want you picking the same thing just to make him mad.” But Gabe quickly responded, “No, sorry Mom, I wouldn’t do that. I want to buy it for him.” Now totally confused, she asked, “Why would you spend your birthday money on your brother?” And this is what…

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