August 20th, 2010
We are so thrilled to announce we have officially scheduled the first Kidology to Go!
Our host for the day will be Children’s Pastor Jacob Myers. Jacob said,
“Our team is super excited about Kidology to Go coming to our church!”
Locust Grove is near Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a great town like so many in mid-America. It reminds me of the small town I am currently living in. We encourage anyone near eastern Oklahoma, northwestern Arkansas or southwestern Missouri to consider coming to this Kidology to Go. We are planning lots of fun and it will also be a great opportunity to network with other children’s pastors and volunteers. Bring along some others from your church!
Registration will open soon, so watch this site and
Kidology for information on registering for this Kidology to Go. We have other Kidology to Go seminars with additional host churches we are close to announcing as well.
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August 12th, 2010
Now that its been a month since launching Kidology to Go, I can address a recurring question that has been coming up from interested host churches and potential attendees. What are those little dots on each state? Do they represent a certain city or a scheduled event? The short answer is not yet! They don’t represent a certain city or church, but rather they represent where we plan to be on our family’s journey across North America in the next two and half years! At this moment, we have just one Kidology to Go booked, which we will announce soon! (We are still getting the final date nailed down.)
You see, traveling all around the North American continent in an RV is a family dream that God has helped us to realize!
We are super excited about seeing tons of sights while serving God in new and unique ways, growing closer to Him and each other as we do. We are praying for many different ministry doors to open on this journey in addition to the Kidology to Go events, as we look for ways we can share God’s love with different people we meet a long the way.
When Karl Bastian heard about this dream and presented this opportunity, we suddenly had the perfect way to both see this dream come true as well as do something else we loved – equip and encourage children’s workers! So we planned out a route across America and Canada of when and where we wanted to go, seeking God and praying through the process. It was a perfect partnership because we already love providing quality, affordable training for local churches, and with Kidology to Go, the host church doesn’t have to pay for lodging or transportation!
Hope this clears up the mystery of the dots! They represent the states we will be in – if a dot is near you – we’d love to book a Kidology to Go training event at YOUR CHURCH!
- Marty Martin
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July 21st, 2010
I love children’s ministry conferences. I love checking out all the new products and ideas, hearing what others doing in different places, and rubbing shoulders with people who understand the unique challenges and rewards that come with working in the realm of children’s ministry. Plus you get to meet some people you have previously only networked with on Facebook or Kidology.
The recent Children’s Ministry Expo — which took place July 15-16 — had all these facets but with some very different twists. While there were some learning moments, like the Sit-ins and the Scoops, this conference was not really a conference but primarily a place to check out a ton of different resources available to children’s ministry peeps. This was the first time I was on the exhibitor side of things, so it was a new perspective for me. I got to meet tons more people than I normally do, and it was so great to hear how God is working in their lives and calling new people into the field of children’s ministry.
However I didn’t get a chance to check out as many of the other booths as I normally do, and see all the great tools, trinkets and toys at our disposal! My wife got to walk around with our kids more, so she told me some cool things. One booth, Warrior316, talked about their upcoming launch of some amazing online gaming for kids. Another booth gave a glimpse of a cool new virtual puppetry (think “Turtle Talk with Crush” or the “Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor” if you have been to Walt Disney World). The River’s Edge booth had some fun new science tricks.
The best thing about the CMExpo for me was being able to tell people about Kidology’s newest endeavor – Kidology to Go. I loved talking to kid’s pastors whose faces lighted up with excitement about the possibility of a quality children’s ministry training coming to their church at a very affordable cost. After 18 years of being a children’s pastor, I know first hand the desire to bring in some quality outside training for my leaders and volunteers. I also understand that sometimes the cost is just too prohibitive, especially in a down economy. This is my passion with Kidology to Go. To help ignite an excitement in children’s ministries across North America, to bring some great ideas and some practical helps to those who minister “in the trenches” to kids and their families, without breaking anyone’s budget for the next three years.
I think this one of the reason’s the CMExpo was a success in its first year. People are craving new ideas, some training and encouragement, but they need it at an affordable cost. What a winning combination!
If you missed it, you can check out our Twitter feed, or the pics from our Twitpics!
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July 14th, 2010
Announcing… Kidology To Go
Kidology to Go is a mobile training event that travels across the United States (yes, all 50 of them) and Canada, bringing quality children’s ministry training and resources to churches.
Here at KidologyToGo.org, you can learn how you can host a Kidology to Go training event at your church, or if you are a Resource Provider, have your products or services represented at events across North America.
Curious how Kidology To Go came to be? You may want to read the full “backstory” written by Karl Bastian, the founder of Kidology.org.
The next two and half years are going to be very exciting as Pastor Marty Martin and his family travel across the United States & Canada, seeing interesting sights and places while also providing Kidology-style “Equipping and Encouraging” along the way.
You can follow the adventures here on KidologyToGo.org, as well as via Twitter, YouTube or Facebook – but the best thing you can do is to arrange to have the Kidology to Go RV show up at YOUR CHURCH!
Whether you learned about Kidology to Go from Karl’s blog, the Kidology Newsletter or from our booth at CMX – welcome! We hope to meet you in person at one of our local events!
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