Hope for Kids Blog
This month's Club Hope was great! We had 97 children attend--this time last year we were averaging 65 kids in attendance, but thanks to this year's Impact Clubs, we are averaging 95 kids a month at our events! Praise God.
This month, the kids enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, heard the story of Daniel, and learned how God is bigger than any fear, even the fear of death. Check out the video and photo gallery from this day below!
Club Hope this past Saturday was a great day! We had beautiful weather, a delicious meal provided by our Food Team Leader, and so many sweet kids came out to learn about Jesus and build relationships. Thank you to all who made this day so special! Check out photos and videos from this event below!
We had over a hundred kids attend, and many of them were new kids that we met over this summer! It was wonderful to reconnect with all these awesome kids, and six children believed in Jesus during this club! We had a few challenges throughout the day, but overall this was a great kickoff to this Club Hope season and we are so thankful.
The kids learned about David and Goliath, and following our FEARLESS theme for this Club Hope year, they learned how when God is on our side we don't have to be afraid of not measuring up. Everyone loved watching the funny intro video [check it out here] and Cameron and Pastor Matt did a great job teaching Bible lessons for Club Hope and Mentor Hope. Check out this action-packed day in this month's video!
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We are looking back on these three weeks of clubs with full hearts. Each and every member of the team invested so much energy into these precious kids–from preparing to teach Bible lessons to playing basketball in the hot sun to playing countless games of tag, this was an exhausting month for sure, but it was so worth it. Every single member of the team with remember faces from each and every neighborhood we visited, and the relationships we built with these kids will continue into the school year! Leaving all the friends we had made by the end of each week was definitely sad, but we have the hope of seeing them all again at Club Hope for the entire school year! We are so thankful for all the Lord did through Impact Clubs and the many children who believed in Jesus and were added to His family.
Check out the photo gallery below, and keep an eye out for the IMPACT HOPE 2017 wrap-up video, coming out this week!
This weekend we had the chance to bring twelve of our HFK kids to an Easter Story Walk put on by First Baptist Church! The kids played games, got their faces painted, ate some yummy snacks, and went through six rooms that each told a different part of the true story of Easter. Thank you so much to all who made this day possible!
Check out the photos and video from this awesome event below.
Club Hope this weekend was a blast! 79 kids attended, including 14 new kids! 3 children made decisions for Jesus, and God provided all the volunteers we needed – even those we didn’t know we’d need! Check out this post from Jeb and the photo gallery from this month below.
"If you have ever helped out at a Club Hope event before and gone on the bus either for pick up or drop off you know that this is the most stressful time of the event. The roles for our bus monitors include crowd control for the children, giving them wristbands, and building relationships with them. It sounds nice and neat on paper, but those of you who have been there know better than to assume it is smooth sailing. Often the trickiest part can be making sure every child has a wristband so that we know which bus they are to get on for the return trip. But there is something that we do that is not easy by any means, yet really stands out to me as something special.
We write each child’s name on his or her wristband every Club Hope event we have. While this does help us remember their names, I believe it goes beyond just having a quick way to know a child’s name. It shows that they are more than just a headcount, more than another mouth to feed, more than a number. Every child is so unique and significant, and we want them to feel that way! They are constantly bombarded with the lie that they need to be a certain way to fit in or need to do certain things to be accepted, but that is the polar opposite of what God wants for them. He made them differently so that they would, in fact, be DIFFERENT. Even for the regular kids who come all the time, we are sure to write their names on their wristbands because they need to know that we love them for who they are. And more importantly, God loves them for who they are.
Why did this stick out to me? I mean, we have been putting names on their wristbands for a few years now, so why now? I believe that God is reminding me that maybe He isn’t looking for quantity right now. Maybe He is more concerned with the quality. The quality of treatment we give to those that we are currently impacting. The Bible says in Luke 16:10, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much…” and right now we are entrusted with a few kids. Will we someday record hundreds of kids at our events? Perhaps. After all that is the big picture goal. But we must first be faithful in what we have now."
- Jeremiah (hfkjeb.wordpress.com)
Club Hope this past Saturday was so much fun! We had 69 kids, a huge increase from the past few wintry months! We are so thankful for the nice weather and all the volunteers who worked together to make Club a success.
What an awesome month at Club Hope! The kids got to celebrate Pastor Matt’s birthday, eat some delicious english muffin pizzas, learn about Zacchaeus, and watch a Taekwondo demo from the Brown family, our awesome missionary visitors! Thank you to all who made this event possible–we can’t do it without you! See you next month!
Check out our photo gallery and this month’s video below.
Our Valentines Day Club Hope event this past Saturday was a huge success thanks to the teamwork of our amazing volunteers! A special thanks to Rachel LaFlamme for decorating Valentines cookies and Bethlehem Church for providing gift bags for the kids to hand out to their moms!
Club Hope this past Saturday was so much fun! Thanks to First Baptist Church for hosting our event this month, and as always, thank you to all our amazing volunteers. We couldn’t do it without you! Thank you for sharing hope with these children.
