My name is Michael Kientz, and I currently make my living working with a ministry that serves poor children throughout the world. God’s calling on my life is to work with children and to develop leaders. Sometimes He allows me to do both at the same time. Those are good days.
I’ve been teaching children and adults about God for a little over ten years, and I’ll share my favorite object lessons on this site. Feel free to use them to share God’s Word, and please email me with some of your best ones. I’m always on the lookout for new ways to make Truth relevant to the kids. My email address is:
michaelkientz@gmail.com
I have a wonderful wife of 16 years and counting, and we are raising three incredible kids, all three saved from death by God’s grace (our little girl twice), and I’m convinced He has a unique purpose for each of them.
We’ve moved everyone to Thailand (January 2008), where we are learning to adapt to a new culture. In the beginning, it was like living outside your comfort zone 24/7, but it’s getting easier. I travel several weeks a month to different places around Asia.
I trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and my Savior, and I depend on Him to give life to my lessons.
God bless you. Thanks for reading.
Michael
good grief, man. don’t you ever stop!
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I’m the Energizer Blog Bunny! Four blogs and counting, and I feel a fifth one coming on!
Michael
Thank you for all your great ideas! There hasn’t been much on your website for awhile. Are you and your family okay?
Hi, Deena…..thank you for checking! Yes, we are all doing fine. Work has kept me very busy with writing projects (more geared toward adult learners than the kids), and I haven’t had time to post lately. I’ve actually just written a new series, called “The Amazing Journey.” It’s 20 sets of challenges related to the stories of Daniel and Esther, and it is loosely based on The Amazing Race series on TV. I wrote it for a camp that I’m doing in two weeks for abused and neglected children, so I’ve taken the competitive element out of the challenges. (When I first wrote it, it was for an older group and very competitive. I’ll probably end up posting both eventually, but it will take some time to polish them up.)
I’m going to go ahead and publish the Challenge Cards from the series on the Lesson and Material Downloads page. I think most of them will be self-explanatory, but a few of them will probably need facilitator’s notes. I hope you can find some in there that will be useful to you.
Blessings…Michael
Thanks a lot, Mike. It is wonderful… I learnt and was so blessed by your abundant training materials–for alaways….
Blessings, Agus
Thanks, Agus! Glad you found the site.
Michael
Praise the Lord! I’m so excited and thankful for some reasons. First, I accidentally found your blog through fb (about an hour ago) and enjoy reading it. Second, I feel so blessed to know you through this ministry (I am a part-time worker here). Third, I also started writing on my blog with approximately the same topic (one of the topics is about children).
May you & your family be richly blessed!
I’m so glad this is a blessing to you, and I’m glad you are writing, too! I’ll check out your blog.
Michael
Thank you Micheal for these wonderful lessons! I’m using them in Macau, SAR to share Jesus with the kids here!
Blessings!
That’s great to hear, Serena! Blessings to your ministry!