about us

We'd love to hear from you! However, we are a very small ministry and every member of our small staff serves in other full-time ministry positions. As a result, email is the only way to contact us. However, we check email frequently and will do our best to respond to you in a timely manner.

Back near the turn of the century (1999, to be precise), TruthQuest Ministries was founded by a small group of children's ministry volunteers. The plan was to launch a children's worship service for our home church in Denver, Colorado. But at the time, it seemed like much of the Bible curriculum available went kind of light on the actual "Bible" part. So we wondered, what was the point of just entertaining kids? What purpose was served in bombarding them with coloring sheets and crafts if the accompanying Bible teaching was so shallow? That wasn't what we wanted. Instead, we wanted our ministry to dig deeper into the Word while still being fun, because we believed that kids were capable of learning more.

We began praying and asking questions. What if we could make children WANT to come to church? What if we could teach kids more than just the standard stories they've already heard? What if we could not only teach them WHAT the Bible says, but also HOW to apply it to their lives? What if we could train children to view the whole world through the eyes of Scripture? What if the whole ministry was like an adventure-filled quest for the Truth? A TruthQuest! Wouldn't that be cool?

And so we began brainstorming. And writing. And drawing. And on Easter Sunday of 1999, TruthQuest debuted to kids at a local church. It was a disaster. We learned that things didn't always go as we planned, and we learned a number of lessons about what NOT to do. Yet, despite the initial flaws in our work, somehow the kids loved it. They were clearly hungry for what we were trying to do. And so, we refined what we had done. We worked out the bugs. We tinkered. We tweaked. Who knew? If our stuff was any good, maybe other churches could even use it!

As the years went by, other churches DID begin using our materials. Some loved it. Others provided helpful feedback, and we continued to listen. Within a few years, through our experience and by God's grace, we had learned how to produce materials that were fun, flexible, and engaging; materials that were known by our customers for their Biblical depth--and that's exactly what we wanted to be known for.

Today, TruthQuest materials are in use by churches across the United States; churches who agree that kids need more in-depth Bible training. We're certainly not a big publisher with lots of resources, and we're not trying to be. Our tiny staff all serve in children's ministry positions, and our love for kids and our passion for raising them up in God's Truth is reflected in all that we do. Our resources are limited and our budget is tight, but that's okay, because we know that yours are too.

Because of all this, we do things differently than other Bible curriculum publishers. We keep things simple and inexpensive, because we understand what you go through in children's ministry. We do everything digitally and online so that we don't incur (or pass on to you) the costs of expensive packaging, warehousing and shipping. We believe that Bible curriculum is a collection of ideas--not the paper they're printed on or the packages in which they're delivered.

We're different. We're not for everyone, and that's okay with us. God is faithful, and we feel privileged to be able to do what we do. And if you're reading this, we also feel privileged to possibly have a small part in serving you as you serve the children whom God so dearly loves.

Let's face it. The world is a mess. And the only true solution is for the world to turn to God. Maybe we can't make that happen, but we CAN take part in raising up a Godly generation--and to do that, we have to start with the children.

Our mission is to love children as Jesus does; not ignoring them or dismissing them, but spending time and energy to love them and to train them up in the ways of God.

We desire to protect kids against the "hollow and deceptive philosophies" of this world (Colossians 2:8) by training them to think critically about man's fallable "wisdom," which bombards kids from all directions. Our materials often address the flaws in man's "wisdom," comparing it to the Truth and true Wisdom of God's Word. The result is children who understand that it's okay not to believe or agree with everything the world tells them, so long as they respect authority and obey the Greatest Commandment; to love God with all their hearts, and their neighbors as themselves.

We desire to help raise up and equip wise, Biblically-minded children who will be firmly grounded in the Word of God, not only knowing WHAT they believe, but WHY they believe it and understanding HOW to live it out each day.

We're not in the business of producing children's Bible curriculum because of a lack of options--there are plenty of Bible curriculum publishers out there, and they do fine work. Neither are we here only to make money (though we need revenue in order to survive) If these were our goals, we'd be going about it all the wrong way.

Simply put, we're here to teach what we believe. We're here to teach kids what God's Word really says, what it means, and how to apply it to their lives so that their lives may be changed for God's glory. We don't water-down our lessons to appeal to a broader audience. Do we make it fun? Definitely. Memorable? Without a doubt. But at the end of the day, it's all about impressing God's Word on our children (Deuteronomy 6:6-9). And for us, that's the whole point.