Last week we held a special Kids 4 Truth Promotional Luncheon here in the Kansas City area. The purpose of the luncheon was to inform, inspire, increase our financial and prayer support, and lovingly convince believers that we need to get back to focusing on God-centered doctrine in regards to educating children.
We had a great lunch at the Hereford House thanks to a donor that made it possible to do so. Praise God! I’m thankful for all who attended. I’m also grateful for the steak, chicken, or salmon all the attendees received. The free meal was our way of saying “thank you” and it made me feel better about making them suffer through an hour of my blathering on and on. 
Hopefully we’ll be able to do an event like this again next year. Leadership from several area churches attended in order to evaluate the Kids 4 Truth Clubs for potential use at their own churches. I was thrilled to be able to give these folks a “bird’s eye view” of the program. If you live in the Kansas City area and we forgot to invite you—please forgive us! Please let me know if you’d like to attend one of these events and we’ll make sure you receive an invite to our next one.
Steve Calton was there. He directs a Kids 4 Truth Club in the Kansas City area. His testimony was quite possibly the best part of the whole event! (Thanks, Steve!) He articulated that he had seen a change in the kids in the short time his church has been using Kids 4 Truth. In particular, he noticed that children aren’t attending just for the games and gym-time. He said kids are less excited about the games and more excited about the lesson time and working in their Truthbooks. Praise the Lord. I’m all for fun and games but I’d much rather see children that are excited about learning doctrine than playing dodge-ball!
(although dodge-ball is a close second! )
If you’d like to see the PowerPoint presentation I delievered at the luncheon please feel free to download it. It gives a big-picture perspective of the Kids 4 Truth Clubs and helps explain things like: what makes K4T unique?, what is the K4T learning method?, what is the impact of the www.kids4truth.com website, and what is the philosophy behind the content?
Download Promotional PowerPoint — About 35MB
Slide 1: Title Screen- Slide 2: Introducing Bob Roberts
- Slide 3: More Introducing
- *Slide 4: Honeymoon Destination (see below for a description)
- Slide 5: Psalm 78
- Slide 6: Goals For Luncheon
- Slide 7: Mission Statement
- Slide 8: Why Kids 4 Truth Was Born
- Slide 9: Inception
- Slide 10: Imax & Internet
- Slide 11: Scene From The Creation Dynamation
- Slide 12: More Online Resources
- Slide 13: The Watchmaker Dynamation
- Slide 14: Web Stats
- Slide 15: Impact! (Comments And Testimonials)
- Slide 16: More Impact (Comments And Testimonials)
- Slide 17: The Kids 4 Truth Clubs
- Slide 18: Philsophy Of The Kids 4 Truth Clubs
- Slide 19: Foundational Curriculum: Twelve Doctrinal Themes
- Slide 20: Systematic Progression Of Curriculum
- Slide 21: The Learning Method & Awards
- Slide 22: Goal Of Curriculum
- Slide 23: Puzzle! (this slide is designed to demonstrate that in order to build a puzzle successfully, one must look at the picture on the puzzle box top; yea, even before finding the corners! Kids 4 Truth is designed to help boys and girls fashion a biblically sound “puzzle box top” so that when they are handed a piece of the “puzzle” through Sunday School or other sermons—they will know where it fits. They’ll begin to understand how all of Bible truth weaves together as a beautiful tapestry and they will gain a God-centered framework in which to assimilate and evaluate all teachings. Perhaps even more importantly, when boys and girls are handed a puzzle piece that doesn’t fit anywhere, they’ll know to throw it out!)
- Slide 24: End Result
- Slide 25: What Makes Kids 4 Truth Unique
- Slide 26: Advances This Year
- **Slide 27: Efforts In 2007 (see below for a description)
- Slide 28: Vision!
- Slide 29: How You Can Help
*Slide 4: Honeymoon Destination. A few weeks ago I met a man flying on the “red-eye” out of Sacramento, CA. We began talking about our careers and other “life” stuff. I shared with him about my recent engagement. I also shared with him my new affinity for Northern California—a truly beautiful geographic locale! I suggested that I might bring my bride-to-be out to Cally for our honeymoon. I then took a nap for about 30 minutes. When I woke up he told me that if I was serious about coming out West for my honeymoon he had a second home in a gated community in the Napa Valley area that I could use free-of-charge. He said he’d be delighted to give us the use of this home as a “wedding present.” Wow. I thought maybe he was just being “nice” but a couple weeks later I received an email from him with the standing invitation and several pictures of his beautiful house on a lake (see balloon pic above). Praise the Lord with me (and Sarah). We’re going West for a couple weeks this April!
**Slide 27: Efforts in 2007. This year is primarily dedicated to one thing, practically speaking: honing and polishing all the “back-end” Clubs stuff (i.e. lesson plans, documents, user guide). In order to create a great “clubs” product we need to answer two questions: 1. What do you teach the kids? and 2. How do you teach them? By God’s grace, I feel like we’ve answered question #1 well. But we can do a better job of facilitating churches and families as they implement the clubs and basically help them answer the question “How do we do it?” Please pray for us in this regard and give us feedback. We’re listening to our churches. We are planning to give two surveys to all our club churches in order to help us further hone all our materials. See the “Vision” graphic above for a list of several projects we’re busy working on right now to make Kids 4 Truth better than ever.