• Kid Helper Resources, LLC

Posted by: kidhelper on Monday, February 11th, 2008

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We have formed a new Resource Company called Kid Helper Resources, LLC. My Board of Directors has authorized me to relinquish my involvement with the daily task of making of our products. I have been struggling with how to do this for some time. This last summer we finally came up with a plan to start a new company. So for several months now, we have been working behind the scenes to figure out how to implement this plan.

We were advised to help form a company that would manufacture, market and distribute all the creative resources that Creative Children’s Ministries has been associated with for the last 35 years. What this means for me is that I will no longer be in the product business, per se, with my daily time. The products that we have been known for will now be transferred to a new company called Kid Helper Resources, LLC for their exclusive distribution, with all the rights and privileges associated with a for-profit company.

So today, we are announcing the new Executive Director for Kid Helper Resources, LLC…(drum roll, please)

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The Executive Director will be Michael LaFond. Michael, is currently the President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Magicians. Eva, Michael’s wife, is fully supportive with this new venture, in fact, she has already been enthusiastically sewing puppets to build the inventory. Michael has an extensive background in retail sales and marketing. Michael has been one of my protégé’s in the mentoring program and has had a vision for providing quality, but creative gospel resources that will not only train children’s leaders, but reach and teach children.

The Board of Directors for Creative Children’s Ministries has enthusiastically endorsed this arrangement and encouraged me to proceed with Michael. So we are in the process of transferring countless resources to this new company. It is true, that I am very involved in the current transfer, but Michael is very capable and will eventually need less and less of my involvement. We are prayerful for his success.

Kid Helper Resources, LLC, is a limited liability for-profit company. It is a totally independent company from Creative Children’s Ministries, only connected by my product and our relationship. We have endorsed and licensed their name and have helped with the start-up inventory, but it will be eventually autonomous in its scope and influence. The official start date for this new company will be February 15th. So we have been busy transferring our product lines, weekly, since January, 2008. It has been a lot of work, moving inventory, teaching how our product is made and getting the business ready for transactions. The State paper work is done, a bank account is opened, the resale license is ready, and the paper work is being worked on as I write this. Eventually, we will be creating a new website and a Blog site, and working with major vendors, distributors, and product manufacturers.

Another aspect of this company will be the ability to provide the resources that are included in the Kidology-Coaching Program, so all my protégé’s will be able to secure all of the recommended products on line and not from me.

Another development involves Kidology, Inc. They have agreed to assist us in launching some of our initial products on their website. Karl Bastian, the Executive Director of Kidology, has been a great friend of Creative Children’s Ministries and that relationship is now being networked to Michael and the Kid Helper Resources Company. This will help us promote the resources to thousands of children’s leaders who might be interested in using these creative products.

Still another aspect of the KHR will involve the formation of International Kid-Helper Resource Centers. With my foreign mission work, I have become increasing aware of just how few gospel resources are available for reaching out to children overseas. So we have agreed to find a way to provide some response that will make a difference in a few “select mission” stations. Initially, KHR will focus on overseas places where I have personally been involved before establishing new places. Resources have been left in all the countries with our Kid-Mission work. Now we are planning to “standardize” these Resource Centers and make them a legitimate ministry in the future.

Kid Helper Resources will not be limited to my creative products only, eventually, they will expand into other quality materials, as well. This is an exciting time for me to see this happening, but I think it is even more exciting for Michael and Eva. We need to be praying that these creative resources will multiply beyond anything that I could have accomplished.

Please join me in prayer for the success of this new venture, and pray for Michael LaFond as he brings leadership to this new direction and organization. We need to start well.

The vision is clear: Getting creative gospel resources to those who seriously want to reach kids. Those are the Real Kid Helpers.

News: You can now go to the new website to check it out www.khrstore.com

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