Helps us Build and Improve kidTOUGH
Our Philosophy
For each weekly lesson, kidTOUGH provides all the tools and materials to successfully run a 60-90 service. Curriculums in our category of large/small group offerings can cost hundreds per month. As a children's pastor, I was always running on a tight budget, and those mainstream curriculums, mostly developed by large churches, were just not something we could afford.
In addition, many of those popular and widely used curriculums have tremendous financial backing, which allows them to market and sell to the masses. However, popular does not always mean Biblical correctness. Behavior modification of the child is not the goal. The Bible does not teach that if we just live a victorious Christian life, all will be well. These subtle secular ideas have leaked into today's most popular and widely used curriculums. In the content of kidTOUGH, we talk about suffering. We talk Satan and hell. We talk about how the goal is not living a materially successful life, or even that we are guaranteed to be happy. We talk about what means and what it takes to love God and others through our love and obedience to God's Word and His commands, and in doing so, we can actually live joyfully despite our difficult circumstances. We don't load down the lesson with time-consuming and often expensive materials just to keep the kids busy during the service. We lean on relational and conversational learning reinforcement, because we believe that helps the lesson click and stick not just through lunch time, but for a life time.
We still have some big goals on our development roadmap, one of which is producing an alternative video teaching lesson for our story-telling scripts. This is a very complex and expensive endeavor for a ministry our size, but we are trusting God with this big ask, because we serve a big God! If you enjoy what we are offering, and would like to support our ministry, we accept donations. Unfortunately, we are not a non-profit, so your donations are not tax deductible, but for any size donations, we will offer a copy of our comprehensive User Manual to get the most of kidTOUGH. Any donation over $100, we offer a free Zoom initial consultation call to collaborate with you on how to get the most out of kidTOUGH as you launch. Thank you for your donation and support of our fight to help kids hang TOUGH with life-challenging traits and life-changing truths.
