This morning at camp I showed the campers a really cool blue Lego Race Car Kit that I bought. I told them that my plan is to assemble it by shaking it in the box and demonstrated several shaking techniques. I even passed it through the audience letting the kids help me assemble it through shaking. I’m hoping by the end of the day it will be fully assembled inside the box so that I can just take it out and show the kids the completed car.

But some think I’m crazy. They are telling me that the car had an inventor who first envisioned the car – then designed it – and that the box contains detailed instructions on how to put it together. Sounds superstitious to me! I let them know that sounds great, but I heard that our world came together randomly and by chance. It couldn’t be that Someone invented it, designed it, assembled it and made instructions on how we should then live! It just took millions of years of randomness for all this order to finally appear. So, by the same logic, if I just shake the Lego box enough times it should assemble itself. No need for a design or a plan. Plain ‘ol randomness will do.

We’ll see by evening chapel if my Lego race car is assembled, or if I will have to accept that for there to be something with intricate design, there must be an intentional Designer as well. Or maybe I’ll need to keep shaking it all week long? Gotta go, I need to get back to shaking my lego box! Can’t wait to see the completed car!

Because Jesus Loves Children,

Pastor Karl Bastian

a.k.a. The Kidologist

School's Out: Wise Up is a 1-week downloadable curriculum perfect for the summer months! 

This stand-alone lesson teaches children that God will help them make wise choices!

Kids will learn to make wise choices by relying on God's word, obeying parents or those in charge and thinking about possible consequences before acting. Additionally, the School's Out: Wise Up curriculum uses a fun ice cream theme!

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Check out Friends and Heroes Church and School Packs

• Approximately six months of video-based lessons children love
• Dazzling animation
• Activity-based learning
• Great for volunteer teachers and  leaders
• Less than $6 per week!

This lesson, written by Connie McCrite, compares learning to live as a Christian to learning a team sport. It's a relatable example of what should happen after we are saved, and can be used as a discipleship message and a follow up to the Salvation message. 

"Some of you just gave your heart to the Lord. This is so exciting! Not only are we excited for you, but the angels in heaven were excited, too! I’ve been trying to think of a way to explain that this is just the beginning of the journey for a Christian.

One way we might look at it would be that you just made one of the teams at school. Is getting a spot on one of the teams all there is? No! Once we’re on a team, we have to get the equipment the coach says we need. As a new Christian, we need to gather equipment around us that will help us. Things like getting a Bible or a devotional book."

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The GOD'S TEAM series is a collection of lessons on the Spiritual Disciplines that uses Baseball as a metaphor for living for God. It features the ever-popular NoDuh the Wise One teaching videos as well.

This series contains the following 10 lessons:

1. Training to Play on GOD'S TEAM (Playing on God's Team)
2. Spiritual Disciplines: Bible (Team Handbook: The Bible)
3. Spiritual Disciplines: Meditation (Better Than Bubble Gum)
4. Spiritual Disciplines: Prayer (Talkin' to the Coach)
5. Spiritual Disciplines: Giving (Live to Give)
6. Spiritual Disciplines: Service (The Nerve to Serve)
7. Spiritual Disciplines: Worship (Cheerleader for God)
8. Spiritual Disciplines: Solitude (Turn Down the Noise)
9. Spiritual Disciplines: Fasting/Simplicty (Nothing Can Be Something!)
10. Spiritual Disciplines: Thankfulness (Attitude of Gratitude)

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Explore the use of simple trading cards to connect your children to each other, your volunteers, their parents, and most importantly, God’s Word! 

The Great Adventure Cards is a set of 80 Bible-based trading cards organized into 12 series' (Noah, Elijah, Moses, Miracles, etc.). Children love collecting and trading cards. Channel this interest toward the great adventures found in God’s Word. These cards are a great supplement to your existing curriculum. 

Children will eagerly return to church each week for a new random card to collect and trade with other children and adult volunteers. Watch relationships grow as they trade cards to complete different series' and eventually collect the entire 80-card set! At home, children will look up and read the Bible stories with their parents in order to answer the validation question on the bottom of each card. Children who collect all the cards in a series can be rewarded with a fun prize — an easy and effective tool for partnering with parents!

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Did you know? Toybox Tales are now on DVD for ease of use in your ministry.

Taking action figures to the next level of drama, Karl Bastian (A.K.A. The Kidologist) uses toys to illustrate Biblical lessons that create ideal conversation starters. Use them to compliment your teaching ministry or simply to entertain!

Transform play time into learning time with these mini-dramas, performed live on a small stage and projected to a viewing audience "as it happens." Biblical lessons have never been so memorable or unique!

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»  You can also visit ToyboxTales.com to view low resolution videos online.