Archive for • Kidology Coaching
• Kidmin Talk
Kidmin Talk Karl Bastian, the founder and president of Kidology, Inc., has launched a new bi-monthly podcast series this fall covering Everything Kidmin (children’s ministry). This weekly, about forty-minute, show is patterned much like a Talk-Radio Show with segments and bumper music. Each installment tackles the current buzz in the “kidmin” world, looking at news, […]
• Games In’s and Out’s
The In’s and Out’s of the Game Baseball is a game played by two teams, one out, the other in. The one that’s in sends players out, one at a time, to see if they can get in before they get out. If they get out before they get in, they come in, but it […]
• Moving Forward, Stepping UP
Moving Forward, Stepping UP Sharon and I took an Alaskan Cruise this year for our vacation. Of course, the Holland America Cruise Ship Zuiderdam was just huge. One of our off repeated experiences every day was to leave our room to navigate our way from deck to deck. There were really two ways to do […]
• Book Review: Mentoring
Mentoring: The Promise of Relational Leadership By Walter C. Wright Jr., Paternoster Press, 2006, 160 pages Mentoring is a legacy book, a work of a life of being mentored and a life of giving back. This work of mentoring is all about relationship and accountability. For those without a mentor, this volume might just push […]
• Measuring Kidmin Success
Measuring Kidmin Success There seems to be some confusion about what constitutes Success for the Children’s Minister. We all think about it. We want to be successful at what we do and be known for that success. I think part of this confusion comes from our American culture, which basically says…Success has to do with […]
• Check List for A Better VBS
VBS Checklist: A Tool for a Better VBS The annual routine of doing VBS has an Upside…doing it BETTER than the years before. The more years of VBS experience you get, the more real improvements you should be making in your program and leadership. Here is my new VBS Checklist that could help you to […]
• Co-Active Coaching Quotes
Co-Active Coaching Quotes: The following quotes from “Co-Active Coaching,” a book written by the founders of The Coaches Training Institute, eloquently describe what coaching is and how it provides a powerful change process for people. 1. “Imagine a relationship where the total focus is on you, on what you want in your life, and on […]
• Leaders: Compassion #11
Leadership: Compassion #11 Compassion is a misunderstood word today. It seems that our culture defines compassion as doing good for those less fortunate, who are victims of fire, flood, earthquake, landslide, tsunami or some other uncontrollable event of nature. I am sure all this is involved with helping in cataclysmic need. But compassion is not […]
• Dancing With Porcupines
Give Away Resources (for current on-line Kidology Protege’s only, (sorry) From my exhaustive collection of the resource materials, I am hereby going to donate, to my current students only, a collection of books on various aspects of children’s ministry. The next one is The Delicate Art of Dancing with Porcupines published by Regal Books, Division […]
• Calculating Kidmin Salaries
Calculating Kidmin Salaries It seems to be common practice among churches to use the local school system for comps for determining the salaries of children’s ministers. I guess, I understand how this happens for beginning positions. But as the work grows and the children’s ministry becomes more established, the salary comparison needs to be revised […]
