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Speakers
Cool Kids Kid Kollege
March 13th - 14th, 2009
Next year's speakers have not been determined at
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Steve Harney
Founder/Director
Cool Kids Ministries |
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Steve Harney
Steve is a 1980 graduate of Baptist Bible College in
Springfield, MO. Steve has been working with
children since he was15 years old, even traveling
with evangelist Joe Boyd as a 17 year old and
working with children and doing gospel illusions way
back then.
Steve has been a
Pastor, Youth Pastor, Music Pastor and Children'
Pastor over the past 27 years. He is the
author of two books, "Putting You and Your
Children's Ministry On The Spot" and "Object Lessons
You Can Do." Steve is also a presenter for
Group Publishing's CMML and has written several
articles for Children's Ministry Magazine.
Steve currently travels all across America helping
churches establish solid children's ministries,
presenting "On The Spot" teacher trainings, Kidz
Storms and Illusion Shows for Public and Private
Christian Schools.
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Classes
How to
have a solid music program in your children's
ministry. It isn't that hard and anyone can do
it. It can be fun, exciting and everyone will
get involved.
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Jeff Smith
Salt and Light Ministries |
Jeff Smith is Director of the Salt & Light
Ministries based near Richmond, VA. While
getting his ministry started and working in the
local church setting, he finished his Master’s
Degree in Communications with an emphasis on
Script and Screenwriting from Regent University
in 1995. He is currently enrolled in the Master
of Worship Arts program at Liberty University.
Since then, Jeff has performed throughout the
world as a featured performer and master teacher
at local, state, and national training
conferences and seminars in drama, worship arts,
music ministry, teacher training, children’s
ministry, and creative arts. Although Salt
and Light Ministries publishes many of his
written works and he has self-produced a variety
of CDs and other musical projects, many of his
dramatic works have been published by Lillenas
and Standard Publishing. Additionally, his
series of training videos, “Movement for
Non-Movers” have helped equipped teens and
children all over the world to share the gospel
through creative ministries and music.
Jeff currently
resides in Richmond, VA, with his wife Debbie
and their two sons, Benjamin and Samuel. For
more information on Jeff and his ministry check
out our web site at
www.saltandlightmin.org.
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Classes
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Telling the
Old, Old Story in a New, New Way:
Applications of the creative process to bringing
Bible stories and Bible characters to life to a
post-modern culture.
In this class you will
learn:
How to identify cultural icons with mass appeal
(relevant trends.
How to capture the attention of a media-savvy
culture
Creative ways to visualize Bible stories
The value of being entertaining without compromise.
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Generation to
Generation: A Storyteller’s Guide to Passing
on Your Faith:
A look at the power of story to engage and involve
an audience in communicating bible stories and
precepts
In this class you will learn
how:
The structure of story reminds us of our divinity
The substance of story reminds us of our humanity
The strength of a story helps us to remember.
This class will also
share storytelling ideas and resources for
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Chuck Rathel
Children's Pastor
Open Door Church
Chambersburg, PA |
Chuck has been a full time children’s minister for
the last 25 years of his 41 ministry years. He has
traveled the country teaching churches how to win
children and families to Christ and train them to
serve God.
Chuck
has been a Gospel magician for 42 years using this
exciting outreach method across the United States
and in France. He is a balloon artist, puppeteer,
chalk artist and graphic designer. He is an
accomplished graphic artist who created many of the
graphics for Dock Haley’s magic. He is the inventor
of the Torn and Restored Heart magic
trick. He uses his skills to create computer
graphics, print media and web design for churches
and missions ministries.
Chuck Rathel is the
Associate Pastor of The Open Door Church in
Chambersburg, PA. overseeing all of the children’s
ministries of the church. He graduated from Bible
College in 1966 and has served as a youth pastor,
associate pastor, evangelist, children’s pastor and
pastor. Chuck is married to his college sweetheart,
Donna. They have been married 41 years and are the
parents of two sons. Ben is a Bible computer
specialist and teacher at the Cumberland Valley
Christian School in Chambersburg. Nathan is the
assistant media director at the First Baptist Church
Woodstock, Georgia.
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Classes
Discover a how to draw the interest of a crowd with
a few simple balloon, yet amazing balloon creations.
Learn the secrets of making Power Point an amazing
game and teaching tool. Discover simple techniques
anyone can do that grab attention and involve your
audience.
Using Windows Movie Maker to make your own
commercials and ads.
Discover where to find free backgrounds, graphics
and visual material online you can use to create
amazing print, power point and web designs.
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Matt Tucker
Children's Pastor
University Ministries
Jacksonville, FL |
While growing up at Oak Hill Baptist Church in
Somerset, KY Matt at 12 years of age began working
in the sound booth learning all he could. From
there his passion for media grew. After graduating
from high school, Matt traveled with a singing team
out of Woodstock, GA known as "Wings Of Morning" and
was their Media engineer. After traveling for a
year, Matt attended Baptist Bible College where he
worked and oversaw the audio and video needs for the
school. While attending BBC Matt began working with
children and saw how media can make a huge
difference in children's ministry. Matt Graduated
from Baptist Bible College in 1999. It has been
Matt's honor to work with children's ministries in
Texas and in Orlando. Matt also worked with such
great media specialist like "Silent Planet" and
"Devotion Media." Matt Tucker is currently serving
as the Children's and Media Pastor of University
Ministries in Jacksonville Florida.
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Classes
This class will examine the use of video media in
children's ministry. What can we do to make our
lesson's, games, transitions and time with our
children more interesting and meaningful?
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Jim Eccles
Debbie Eccles
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Jim
and Debbie Eccles currently work as the Children’s
Director/Sunday School Superintendent at Battlefield
Baptist Church in Warrenton, VA. While at
Battlefield Baptist they have been successful in the
development of the children’s programs. Under their
leadership they have re-structured the children’s
Sunday School and Jr. Church. Jim and Debbie
incorporated a Puppet Team called “Kyle & Company”
to the Jr. Church program. This gave the older
children, teens and even adults an opportunity to
serve within the church. Seeing the success that
the puppet team had reaching the children they
developed an Anti-Bully Program for the public
schools. God opened the doors to allow the puppet
team to get into the public schools to do
assemblies. In addition to the Anti-Bully Program
they now offer a Character Education program.
Jim and Deb met while
attending Baptist Bible College in Springfield,
Missouri. Jim is from Burlington, Iowa and Debbie
is from Taylor, Michigan. They have two boys
Jordan, age 14 and Cameron, age 9. Both Jordan and
Cameron share in their parents love for the
children’s and puppet ministry.
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Classes
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How to
Get Your Ministry Into The Public Schools
How to plan, put together and organize a puppet
ministry that will get you into the public schools.
It is easy to do and if it can be done in the
nations capital, it can be done in your ministry
home as well. You won't want to miss this
class.
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James Dick
Associate Pastor
Fairfield West Baptist Church
Fairfield, OH
Founder/Director
M&M Ministries |
James Dick has been the Associates
Pastor/Children’s Pastor at Fairfield West
Baptist Church for over five years. He was saved
at a young age, as a bus kid, at Cozzadale
Baptist Church in Goshen, Ohio. One Sunday
morning at the age of 18 he surrendered to
preach and left that evening for Bible Baptist
College in East Peoria, IL. After
attending college for six months and working
three jobs, James felt that because of working
so many hours and not having the appropriate
time to study, he believed this must not be his
calling. James came home and spent the
next 14 years being a fast food general manager
at two restaurants. This is where he met
his wife of 18 years, Terri. Five years
later they had a daughter, Bethany, who is now
13. His family came to Fairfield West
Baptist Church in January of 2000 and upon
joining James soon became the Awana Commander
and then later voted in as a deacon. In
2002, the church asked James to become the
Associate Pastor and Church Clerk. It was
at this time James realized that this was his
calling.
James is the founder and director of M & M
Ministries (The Magic is in the Message).
This is a non-profit ministry which is used to
reach boys and girls with the gospel of Jesus
Christ. His daughter, Bethany, and the
Senior Pastor’s son, Tanner Rosenbalm,
participate in this ministry.
If you have any questions for Pastor James, or M
& M Ministries, please e-mail us at
jamesd64@msn.com.
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Classes
In
this class you will learn how to raise money for
your ministry without selling lots of bulky
items, and without worrying about whether you
will lose your shirt on this one. It is
easy, foolproof and anyone can do it. If
you have ever wished that your children's
ministry could have more funds but didn't know
what to do, be in this class. It is worth
the price of admission all by itself.
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Bryan White
Pastor
Faith Baptist Church
Wheelersburg, OH |
Raised in Church form the
time I was six, I was your typical backslidden
teenager. The Lord and a persistent youth pastor got
hold of my heart my senior year and convinced me to
go to youth camp. That week of camp changed my life
forever. Though I was saved as a nine year old, I
was very distant from Him. I rededicated my life and
began to live for Christ. Nearly three years later I
married Stacy, one of the girls I met that week at
camp.
Soon after we were
married, we began working with teens in our home
church (Faith Baptist Church, Dayton, Ohio). That
led to becoming the next youth pastor in our church.
Serving for six years as youth pastor, God began to
deal with me and Stacy about planting a church in
Southern Ohio. In August of 2003, we had our first
service in Wheelersburg, Ohio. Since then, God has
blessed our ministry beyond description. We give Him
all the praise for what He has done.
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Classes
Bryan will be teaching how to get children,
mom's and dads to come to an event. Bryan runs
a VBS every year that averages more in attendance
than his church averages at that time. How do
you plan for that? How do you prepare for
that? What do you do to make that happen?
You will love this class and it will challenge you
to do more for this generation. Find out how
Bryan and his workers find, bring in and reach the
children and people of their area. If they can
do it, you can do it to.
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