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2010: Recap & Video
by Karl Bastian

Get Your Kids Excited About Worship! Handbook High Voltage Kids Ministry Curriculum Pack 9
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Special Price: God's Kids Worship CD 3-Pack

Check out this awesome collection of 3 power-packed, energized kids' praise CDs with all the excitement of a real, live modern worship event - Save $3!

NEW! DiscipleTown Unit 8: "How to Pray"

"How to Pray", Unit 8 of this Kid's Church curriculum developed by Karl Bastian and DiscipleLand, is available for immediate download!

3 DiscipleTown Units for $99.95!

God's Plan, Worship, Good Choices: The All About Spiritual Growth Collection features 3 months of DiscipleTown curriculum at a special price.  Buy now before it's gone!

"Who is My Neighbor?" Lesson and Video

Kidology Premium Members can grab Part 2 in the Jesus in My Neighborhood series by Karl Bastian. FREE lesson includes outline, PowerPoint, and MOV video file.

Timbuktoons

Animated lessons, countdowns, and video-based teaching tools from Timbuktoons are available for immediate download in the Kidology Store. Show one this weekend!

DiscipleTown "All About Relationships" Collection

The All About Relationships Collection features 3 months of DiscipleTown curriculum for just $99.95! Includes 3 popular teaching units.  Limited-time only!

Zap Pack: 6-Week Curriculum for Grades K-5

From Tadpole Tails, Zap Pack is a 6-week, sitcom-style video series following the life of a preteen boy named Zack. Fully customizable for both Large or Small Group Formats.

Your Source for all things Speed Stacks

Do you use Speed Stacks in your children's ministry?  The Kidology Store has a full selection of sport stacking cups, timers, mats, and accessories!

Cookbook - Part 5: "Getting Creative"

Now Available: Getting Creative, Part 5 of The Kids Church Cookbook written by Karl Bastian, is available for immediate download!

The Great Adventure Trading Cards!

The Great Adventure trading card program is back! After selling millions of cards worldwide, this set of 80 Bible-based trading cards is finally republished!

D6 Conference: September 15-17 in Dallas

The D6 Conference is focused on raising spiritual champions for Christ using a family ministry model. It takes place September 15-17 in Dallas, TX. Learn more!

Jesus Is Real: 4-Week Curriculum for Grades 2-6

Jesus is Real is a 4-week, sitcom-style video series featuring the news team from Breaking Action Daily News. Fully customizable, yet easy to use right out of the box!

Announcing... Kidology To Go

Kidology to Go is a mobile training event that travels across the United States and Canada, bringing quality children’s ministry training and resources to churches.

Recap: Yosemite Summit 2010

Curious about Kidology's Yosemite Summit retreat? Take a look at this report from Karl Bastian about this event from May 2010, complete with photos and video!

How to Be Faithful Workers: DiscipleTown Unit 7

"How to Be Faithful Workers", Unit 7 of this Kid's Church curriculum developed by Karl Bastian and DiscipleLand, is available for immediate download!

Now Available... Kidology Open Source Curriculum

Kidology Open Source Curriculum is a FREE set of tools you download, remix, and share with others!  Budget-friendly 3-year curriculum for church, home, & school

Discovering God's Path Curriculum

Discovering God's Path Curriculum is a 3-year reproducible curriculum released FREE on a rotating quarterly basis as a benefit for Kidology Premium Members

Episode 5: Stories!

Episode 5 of The Kids Church Cooking Show takes a look at the many ways you can use stories to enhance your teaching in children's church. Watch now!

Got a Question?

Looking to connect with others in children's ministry?  Spend some time in the Kidology Discussion Forums. You've got questions, we've got answers!

Buy USED and SAVE in the Garage Sale

Make your children's ministry dollars stretch farther by shopping for bargains on gently-used items in the Kidology Garage Sale!

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Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #075 - A Pilliar of Salt

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #074 - Promises Kept

God is faithful and will keep His promises.

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #073 - Rescue and Blessings

God's Blessings are endless

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #072 - Father Abraham

God desires a personal relationship with each of us.

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #071 - Tower of Babel

What can happen when we do things for ourselves.

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #070 - Noah's Ark

The story of Noah and his obedience to God.

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #069 - Cain and Abel

The story of Cain and Abel and how sin separates us from God.

Discovering God's Path Curriculum: Lesson #068 - In the Garden

Adam and Eve and their fall.

Kids Book Template

Using this template and a poster board book cover, kids can write their own story and illustrate with their own artwork!

Paper Nesting Doll Craft

Printable craft for a set of 3 nesting dolls you can color, or create your own design! Great for talking about the trinity, or family!

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Episode 5: Stories!
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The fourth episode of "The Kids Church Cooking Show", a training video for The Kids Church Cookbook, takes a look at the many ways you can use magic to enhance your teaching in children's church.


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The Great Adventure Cards Are Back!

I can not even begin to tell you how EXCITED I am to announce that the Great Adventure Cards ARE BACK on Kidology.org!

Created by our own board member and children's pastor Dan Huffman, these amazing Bible trading cards are a wonderful way to get kids to participate at church.

They are more than just Bible cards, they are a complete FUN Bible trading game! There are 25 sets of 80 cards with a variety of series. Each is a Bible story, and each is a different number of cards, depending on the story. The artwork is very cool.

Each card has a question and a Bible reference. The questions were carefully written so that they are hard enough that most kids (and adults!) aren't going to "just know the answer" but easy enough that by looking up the answer they can find it in that one verse.

The kids collect the cards by coming to church, bringing their Bible, a friend, participating, answering questions, etc. and when they complete a series, AND can answer all the questions (from reading their Bibles and working on them with Mom and Dad at home!) they give the series to a leader who quizes them, and then they get a prize.

A hole is punched in the corner of the card so that they can keep the cards, and they can't be used again (or traded with others) to be used again for a prize. I can tell you as a children's pastor who used these in ministry - they are VERY EFFECTIVE in engaging kids and getting them to work hard at learning and participating. They haven't been on Kidology.org for several years and we have had requests regularly for them to be back in print - and we are so excited to be able to offer them once again through the birth of a brand new ministry called Tadpole Tales. View all their exciting new resources on Kidology!

CHECK OUT: The Great Adventure Cards Today!

SEE ALSO: The Good News Cards (A Gospel Presentation)

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