Archive for • Kidology Coaching
• U.S. Church Demographics
I ran across this interesting demographic research of the distribution of denominations. This research was produced by the Glenmary Research Center (a Catholic group). The fine print indicates that the County designations are based on the total number of adherents reported by each church body divided by the county population in 2000. Majority counties are […]
• Confessions of a Stuck Leader
After forty, plus, years in the ministry experience, I must confess I have been “stuck” many times. “Stuck” is a kind of quagmire experience that I can “wallow in” that basically renders me immobile to forward progress. It comes when I am over committed to big events and I try to recover by being too […]
• Kidology Coaching Update
This is Eric Ward, my first on-line Kidology Coaching protege with Karl Bastian, the Executive Director of Kidology, Inc. Karl was invited to conduct children’s meetings at Eric’s church, William’s Lake Church of the Nazarene, in Waterford, MI. Karl tells me that Eric was quick to display his new Kidology Coaching Manual to the “head […]
• Kidology-Button Man
Yep, I became a Kidology Button Man. This week I traveled all the way to San Diego (100 miles) just to get my own Kidology Button. I found out the Karl Bastian, the Kidologist, was going to be at the Children’s Pastors’ Conference, so I arranged to see him for lunch and hang out with […]
• Kid Helper Resources, LLC
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 […]
• Faith & Tension
This picture captures the essence of Faith and Tension. This was the cover on our Sunday Church Bulletin. I just liked the image with the caption “Faith and Tension.” One can easily imagine a boat that is anchored with strong rope to the edge of the dock by a dock cleat, but the water maintains […]
• On-Line Coaching Update
Yahoo! We now have FOUR “On-Line” protege’s in the Kidology Coaching Program. This is exciting for me, because I have invested so much effort in the last four years in writing and developing this mentoring model. I have been mentoring over twelve students “face to face,” from the Los Angeles area, but now we are […]
• My Floral Bouquet #6
These floral beauties are daisies, that I captured in Estonia. Daisies are quite common flowers, found in so many places. Daisies are, to me, rather simple flowers, rather symmetrical with only two colors with the clean white pedals. They have a clean crisp look in contrast to the green foliage. These flowers impressed me as […]
• What is a Plodder?
When my wife, Sharon, decided the honor me for my 6oth birthday (almost five years ago), she invited sixty of my friends and many family members to dinner party at Buca di Beppo to celebrate. Part of the program was to invite those in attendance to share from their knowledge of me from each decade […]
• Confronting Change?
For a few weeks now, I have had the feeling that I was being followed. It was just a feeling, I thought. I tried to dismiss the nagging questions in my mind, but it continued. I could not really tell you what it was, but lurking in the shadows, I could faintly make out a […]
