Posted on September 1, 2009 - by rfrank

The last few days at KidzMatter

It’s been a great few days at KidzMatter. Here’s the low down on what we’ve been up to.

• We had a great staff meeting today. I bought everyone lunch (thanks for picking it up, Evan) at a new place in town called Culvers.
• Evan is having some computer problems. Evan and computer problems is not good.
• Tina and I both did training events this weekend in Georgia (different cities) and had a great weekend. Tina made my day when she said that the event ended by the organizer reading an excerpt from K! Magazine… and she had nothing to do with it!
• I flew into Atlanta early before my speaking engagement Friday night and Saturday. I drove up to Cummings, GA to meet with Reggie Joiner. We started with breakfast while talking the world of children’s and family ministry. Then we went over to the reThink condo where I met some of his team and learned about a new product they are working on. (The picture on this post is Reggie working on his laptop in the condo.) Then Reggie took me a few blocks over to their main offices. Like I expected, we wished we would have had more time to talk. We’ll make it happen later.
• I ate at Chic-fil-a four times in two days. Random, I know.
• Our team decided on a branding company that is helping us roll out a whole new line of resources in 2010. The cat’s still in the bag, but you’ll be hearing about it soon. I’ll just tell you that it’s big.
• I hired a new administrative assistant. Lara Collett is working at KidzMatter now! She has been volunteering since June. Today was her first day as a “real” employee!
• We’re trying to nail a time to meet with our strategic planner this month. Everyone’s schedule is nuts.
• The September/October issue of K! Magazine printed and is dropping in the mail. It might be the best one yet.
• We rescheduled our Christmas party and bumped it up two days.
• Oh, last week was a crazy week for new K! Magazine subscribers. They flooded in all week! Ya baby!

As you can see, things are hoppin’ at KidzMatter. God has blessed us with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of several thousand children’s pastors and leaders. It’s been a good few days!