Clubs Blog : update

Patch Inventory

jgillen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:45:00 GMT

Due to an vast increase in sales this year, we have are currently out of a few patches. All patches are on order, and supply should be replenished by the end of October. As soon as the new patches are in, we will begin shipping what is currently backordered.

Patches that are currently backordered include:

- Bonus Patches
- Cutout Magnifying Glass Patches
- Green Bulldozer Patches
- Yellow Shield Patches
- Green Sword Patches

A few others are running low, and if we run out of those, a new blog post will be posted listing all backordered patches.

Due to being out of some patches, several patch sets are also on backorder. In order to get as many patches to you as we can, if you order a patch set, you may see modifications to your order to show what patches can be shipped now, and what will be shipped at a later date. If you have any questions at all, please contact us at clubs@kids4truth.com.

Ordering for Fall

jgillen — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:35:00 GMT

Fall is quickly approaching, and many of you will be starting up your clubs again for a new year! How exciting! We at Kids 4 Truth have been preparing for the new year as well, adding support staff, purchasing inventory, etc. We hope you'll find that some of our improvements are a big help to you.

One of the biggest improvements we've made is the release of our new on-line store - http://store.kids4truth.com. It now allows for invoicing of orders of any amount, improved tracking of shipments, easier navigation, and more.

In order to be invoiced through our on-line store, the Kids 4 Truth staff will need to add your account to the invoicing group. Please contact clubs@kids4truth.com if you'd like to have this option added to your account.

As we approach the fall, many churches will all be placing orders at the same time. The earlier you get your order in, the earlier we can get it to you. Please allow at least 2-3 weeks before you club begins for your order to arrive. The goal of the Kids 4 Truth staff is to ship orders 24-48 hours after the order is placed; however, during the busy fall ordering season, we cannot guarantee this. Orders will be shipped on a first come-first served basis. Also, please remember that banners take up to two weeks to be shipped, and shirts take up to four weeks.

As always, please feel free to contact us anytime you have questions. We are here to serve you.

Two Things To Know - Please Do (At Least) One Now!

BobRoberts — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:19:23 GMT

Recently, we revamped the EquipU website to help you find what you need more easily. One of the new communication tools that we launched with the new EquipU is a “Clubs Blog.” If you’re reading this right now, you’ve found the Clubs Blog! Please spend a few moments here and see how this special website might benefit you. We will be adding pertinent information here, weekly. We believe that this new blog is one of several “communication-solutions” that will help disseminate vital information to you.

Friend, let me highly encourage and even exhort you to do at least one of the things detailed below. As our ministry grows and matures, churches continue to provide helpful feedback about the program. We’re listening, evaluating, and taking action to try and make Kids 4 Truth the best tool available to help Christians ground boys and girls in essential Bible truth!

By God’s grace, we’re continually sharpening the Kids 4 Truth Clubs and we desperately desire this “sharpening” to trickle down to you—the people serving on the fronline of battle! We exist to serve you but effective serving only happens through effective communication! We’ll be using this blog to help you be “in-the-know” about the latest helpful “club” resources we release.

Here are two ways to take full advantage of the new Clubs Blog…

#1 – E-mail Alerts

If you sign up for this free service, every time one of the Kids 4 Truth staff adds a post to the Clubs Blog, you will be alerted via e-mail. I recommend selecting the second option: “Send me emails for new posts and articles only” and then hit the “Update Blog Settings” button. Since you need to be “signed in” to view the Blog Email Subscription web page, you don’t need to provide your e-mail address. You’ll begin receiving alerts to the same e-mail address you used to sign up for the EquipU site. The e-mail alert will contain the entire content of every blog post so there is no need for you to login or click a link in order to read the post (click HERE to see a sample alert of this post). Convenient? You bet!

Once you hit “Update Blog Settings” the page will refresh and you will automatically be added to the e-mail list. You will recieve your first e-mail alert as soon as we add a new post. Don’t worry if it still says: “You do not have any post subscriptions” under “Individual Post & Article Subscriptions.” This is a feature for advanced users and will not concern most people.

Click HERE to sign up for e-mail alerts for the Kids 4 Truth Clubs Blog.

You can cancel this subscription at any time via the email alerts.

Additionally, you can sign up for e-mail alerts for the EquipU Forum posts.

#2 – RSS Feeds

Have you ever heard of RSS? It stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it is the wave of the future when it comes to modes by which we as humans receive information. The new Clubs Blog has an RSS feature whereby you can automatically receive any new posts. One of the advantages of RSS is that it literally “slurps” all the data from a blog or news website into an RSS “reader” where you can quickly and easily organize and assimilate all the data. Think of it this way: you use an e-mail program like Outlook to receive and organize all your e-mail. An RSS reader is to RSS feeds what Outlook is to e-mail. When I want to scan the news, surf devotional thoughts, learn a new “word of the day,” or discover the latest buzz or controversy—I can do so with minimal time outlay because of my RSS reader.

RSS readers come in both stand-alone and web-based versions. There are several good and completely free versions avaiable online. I use two RSS feed “readers.” If you don’t have an RSS reader, please let me suggest the two that I use.

FeedReader

I have used several different readers and this one has been my favorite by far. I love the ability to have a standalone program dedicated to RSS feeds only. This program is as simple to use as Outlook. Please click on the graphic at right for a screenshot of FeedReader. It will give you a better idea of what it can do.

FeedReader Website (includes link to free download)

Google Reader

Google Reader is a free web-based RSS reader. The main advantage of this service is you can still read all your RSS feeds even if you’re away from your own computer.

Google Reader Website

So how do I subscribe to your RSS feed? Great question! First of all, it’s very easy. For anyone. Trust me. Just look for the part on the right sidebar that has links to RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. Either one of these links will take you to a subscription address that you can copy and paste into your RSS reader. Once you click the subscribe button within your RSS reader program—you’re all set! Whenever you refresh your RSS feeds, any new posts from the Clubs Blog will automatically be slurped into your reader.

Find out more about RSS

NOTE: If you’re not signed up for EquipU yet, please register to use this free website right away!

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. Thank you and may God bless you and yours this Christmas season!

Your Servant,

K4T Update Letter

marrena — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:16:00 GMT

Dear Friend,

“Mr. Bob, I got saved by God today.”

These were the words seven-year-old Anna Carter said to me recently. Anna’s father, Mike, told me that he and Anna were looking through the Kids 4 Truth website when Anna started asking questions about God and eternity. Mike said that he was able to use the website as a teaching tool to help her “connect the dots” and understand important eternal truths. He had the opportunity to lead his daughter to the Lord. Praise God for His marvelous truth! Praise God that He saw fit to use our ministry to help Anna understand her need for the Savior. There are millions of children all over the world who need the truth, just like Anna.

This is what Kids 4 Truth is all about. We want to inspire and equip God’s people to teach boys and girls the most important truths about God. And by God’s grace, we’ve made some pretty big strides toward that goal over the last year. Please allow me to update you.

The number of churches either using or Kids 4 Truth Clubs or shortly planning to begin using them has increased significantly this year. We have over 100 churches using our clubs this fall. Praise the Lord!

Over the past few months, we’ve been updating and upgrading our entire curriculum. As God allows and provides, we will begin to translate this complete and polished English translation into several different languages. Spanish, Portuguese, and French are languages at the top of our list. Please pray as we look into specifics regarding translation work.

Our website has continued to enjoy high numbers of visitors. About 10,000 people come to our website every day to read devotionals, download resources, view our award-winning Dynamations, and discover concise, child-friendly answers to some of life’s toughest questions. If you have not visited www.kids4truth.com recently, please do come see all that is available.

On August 1, we released The Watchmaker Dynamation. This Dynamation fostered a surge of new visitors of both those who agree and those who disagree with us. With the increase of visitors came an increase in e-mail questions, downloads, and interest in the clubs. We praise the Lord for how He has used this Dynamation to bring Glory to Himself.

We praise the Lord for the launch of a new EquipU site. This site allows us to serve our churches better with online support, more downloadable files, and a new staff blog page to keep our churches in the “know” of what is happening at Kids 4 Truth. Soon we will launch a completely redesigned Kids 4 Truth website which will prove to be our most interactive site yet. We also plan to release a new on line store that will feature new customer-friendly features.

We have moved! Since our early days as an incorporated entity, our humble ministry has leased office space from Tri-City Ministries. Over this past year, we realized an increasing urgency to move into a place of our own. We needed to relocate for 3 key reasons: 1– identity, 2– accessibility, and 3– and (most importantly) space! Thankfully, God has provided a solution. Our new offices are wonderful! The building is on the sidewalk level in a fairly high-profile area of Lee's Summit, a nice suburb in the greater Kansas City area. There are two large windows in front, and I have become reacquainted with sunlight. We are renting from likeminded landlords who have been very gracious to us. Over the past few months, we have been remodeling and preparing the offices. Thanks to the help of many Christ-like servants, the interior work is done. We have successfully moved our “stuff” about 15 miles across town to the new offices. It has been an exciting adventure. People have donated time, talent, and resources. Professional dry-wallers, painters, electricians, etc. gave so much to help complete the project. Our landlords have paid for most of the material cost of renovation, and have now begun renovating the front of the building to make it more “Kids 4 Truth specific.”

We are very thankful to God for His enabling grace. We acknowledge that if anything good has happened through us in the last year; it is because of God’s goodness. Philippians 2:13 – For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Thank you for all that you have done to stand with Kids 4 Truth. You are a tremendous blessing to us. We hope that this update will be an encouragement to you.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to serve you.

Sincerely,

Bob Roberts and the Kids 4 Truth Executive Team

***check out Bob's Blog at: www.kids4truth.com/bobsblog for photos of our new offices.