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Your a V.I.P. to R.O.B.

Calling all friends and fans of Rob Biagi and his family. I have a V.I.P. for you today – Very Important Prayer request. Rob’s little girl, Natalie has been diagnosed with Leukemia. The whole family needs your prayers. This is being posted with Rob’s permission. Below is the e-mail that he sent out to his e-mail list, it is worded “kid-friendly” because they have a lot of kids on their e-mail list. In Rob’s words to me, “It’s Leukemia, so – though treatable, it’s absolutely brutal. Still, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah is fiercer!” Rob Biagi wrote: Please Pray for Little NatalieDear friends, family, fellow ministers, and customers, (this email has been written in child-safe language – we have lots of children on our email list…) Our 2 ½-year-old daughter Natalie was admitted to “CHOC” (a Children’s Hospital in Orange, California) a few days ago because her skin looked and felt very different than it usually does. The doctors at CHOC did lots of tests, and found out that Natalie is very sick. She doesn’t look really sick right now, and she doesn’t sound really sick, but her body has a very bad sickness growing in it. Little…

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GO CLIMB A ROCK!

I’m excited to let you know about a very unique opportunity for children’s pastors… it’s called Yosemite Summit. www.yosemitesummit.org May 18-22, 2008 Sunday to Thursday The Unconference for Childrens Pastors No Workshops – Just Worship No Resources – Just Relationships No Networking – Just God Working www.yosemitesummit.org Yosemite Summit is five day personal sabbatical for male children’s pastors located in the heart of one of the most spectacular National Parks in America. This refreshing summit of renewal is limited to only eight men who will be staying at a luxurious lodge inside Yosemite and only ten miles from the famously breathtaking Yosemite Valley. Get away from the office, the church, the phones, the Internet, and the busyness of life and ministry and re-coop with some fellow ministers hiking, worshiping, and enjoying genuinely refreshing fellowship surrounded by vistas that only God could create. This retreat will be a structured time of renewal that will provide both group and personal time of reflection, prayer, reading, and worship in a setting where God can truly be heard and experienced. Day hikes to some of the most stunning vistas in the world and evenings of rest and relaxation. (even a hot tub!) Yosemite Summit…

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There’s No Place Like Family

Just returned from a week away with my family and wife’s parents in beautiful Galena, Illinois. While I was there I also became 38 years old! There was a time when I thought 40 was old… nah, 40 is still a punk!!! One of the benefits of being away was that I had very little Internet or iPhone coverage… though I did have to snag an unsecured network here or there a few times to check in and make sure my staff was still working. (just kidding!) Technically this was not a vacation (then I do disconnect completely) but this was a writing retreat, and it was wonderful to get some concentrated time writing the second Kidology Leadership Lab… something only hinted at so far on Kidology.org but soon to be released in October 2007! Whaddaya know, I’m actually starting to work AHEAD on projects! If you know me, you should be impressed that I am writing Unit 2 when Unit 1 is in the can but still unreleased! It’s all part of living a slower paced life now. But better than the focused time to write was the time with family in a beautiful natural setting away from the…

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Kidology Handbook Promo Video

Please don’t watch this video… it is very embarrassing. You watched it, didn’t you? Oh, well. For more information check out The Kidology Handbook – Teacher’s Edition on Kidology.org. Don’t forget the blog only special mentioned when I announced the new Kidology Handbook here on my blog! (No one has claimed the prizes yet!) Never assume you are too late! Order your advance copy today!

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18th Anniversary of our First Date!

In 1986 I was a junior in high school when I saw a picture of a missionary’s daughter in the Philippines in a missions slide-show on a Sunday night at church. (and thought she was cute) After getting her parents permission to write to her (she went back to the Philippines a few weeks ahead of her parents for the start of school), I sent her a letter. We were soon pen pals. Once I found out that she would be heading to the same college as me in a few years (MBI) I got out a calendar and figured out what the date would be of her first Friday evening as a Freshman in college… (before the days of computer calendars!) and asked her on a date for September 7th, 1990, four years in advance! Our first date included a limo ride to Navy Pier, but I could only afford one way, so I left my car at the planetarium and took a cab back to school in the afternoon. After the dinner cruise from Navy Pier (when Navy Pier was only a freight yard and the dinner cruise ship was ALL that was there!) we walked along the…

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