It's not uncommon to receive feedback from parents about their child's experience in Beach Club^®. We hear stories almost weekly, and some are just too good not to share! Take a look at some of the great stories we've received, just in the last two weeks!

Heather's Story...
"Harper sealed the deal!" said one parent after their family attended a Good Friday service where the pastor built a cross on stage. Heather continued, "She started bawling when she saw Pastor John raise up the cross. Then he started talking about LOVE, and she looked up at me and said, 'that was our Beach Club^® word yesterday!' I literally watched the realization that the cross means love click in her brain. It was so amazing to see it play out before my very eyes!"
-- Heather C. (parent and Beach Club^® volunteer)

Jayun's Story...
"I like how my son reads the Bible regularly and is able to share what he learns from the bible with family. Also, I love hearing his prayer to God every morning before going to school. Without you and your team's passion and love for kids, this would have been so difficult. So I appreciate it every week!"
-- Jayun H. (parent)

Lori's Story...
"My child will actually be baptized this coming Sunday April 16th. She / we are so excited. I am so very thankful to ya'll for doing this at school. She has already signed up for summer camp also. I am so proud of her, this is one of the biggest steps she will make in her life. Thank you again for sharing with me."
-- Lori W. (parent)

Thank you to our volunteers who pour into the lives of each child in Club! Because of their commitment to leading top-notch clubs, combined with the power of the Gospel, kids lives are forever changed!

As a reminder, Beach Patrol is what we call KBC's group of Volunteers outside of Clubs. Our Prayer Team is growing, and we've already seen God answer prayer by bringing two new states to the KBC map! Another Beach Patrol Team that is underway is our Outreach Team. This team will work to promote the ministry of KiDs Beach Club^® to schools and churches. We hope to soon see these volunteers out in the community, bringing awareness to the opportunities of the organization. More volunteer teams are in the process of forming, too! Click the I'm Interested button below to fill out the Beach Patrol Interest Form, and to find out more information on Beach Patrol, just click the Get Involved button!
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The International Christian Film and Music Festival recently announced its official 2023 nominations. We are thrilled to share with you that KBC-TV made the shortlist and is a finalist in the Best TV Show category! 

Additionally, KBC's own Club Leader Jason Earls is up for "Best TV Show Host." Winners will be announced in Orlando at this year's event the first week of May.

Winners will be announced May 6th at the ICFF annual festival. 

Last month, KiDs Beach Club^®, in partnership with KCHF TV 11, hosted an informational lunch for pastors and church leaders in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. The end-goal of this marketing endeavor was to ultimately land NEW MEXICO on our Beach Club^® map.  

We are thrilled to share that this effort was a huge success!

Our new church partner Elevate Ministries will launch New Mexico's first ever Beach Club^® at EG Ross Elementary on April 13th. New Mexico brings our state count up to 9, with one more exciting state nearly finalized! (Stay tuned next month for that update!)

If your church doesn't actively sponsor a Beach Club^®, please encourage your pastor or church leader to schedule a Discovery Call. They will learn about KBC's proven model to grow their church, reach more families, and mobilize more volunteers.

Events like the one in Albuquerque are available in the DFW area as well! Church leaders can join us in-person at any of our upcoming Community Connect lunches.

In this month's podcast, Dr. Frank Banfill sits down with KBC's Volunteers Director Steve Brines to candidly talk about volunteering, including many of the common mistakes that we make when recruiting volunteers for church work. 

If you are involved in volunteering, recruiting volunteers, or feeling burned out in your role, this podcast is a must-watch. Keep reading for highlights from their conversation, or hop on over to our podcast page to watch the full episode.

"If you're in a church leadership position, and you're good at making things look like there's nothing wrong in your ministry, the best thing you can do to grow your ministry long-term might mean to let things fall apart. ...We do such a good job at covering up our deficiencies, and we make it look like we've got it all together." -- Steve Brines, KBC's Volunteers Director

Tips for cultivating and matching people with volunteer opportunities:

• Encourage the volunteer to lean into who they are and their natural giftset.
• Align personalities with the role, but don't make assumptions either.
• Equip your volunteers. Don't just throw them into the deep end.
• Follow the model: I do, you watch. You do, I watch. You do.
• Don't lower the bar for expectation and requirement for volunteers.
• Raise the expectation for what it means to be part of a team!
• Involve your volunteers! The more involved they are, the more committed.

We can serve where we're needed or we can serve where we're called. Sometimes filling in where we're needed is more short-term or seasonal, but if we're serving where we're called and gifted, that will be more long-term.

Wherever you are in life, we encourage you to get involved! Don't be a spectator - Christianity is not a spectator sport!

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Since 2015, Ellendale Baptist Church has sponsored a Beach Club^® at Ellendale Elementary School in Bartlett, TN. One student, Jaden, attended Beach Club^® each of those first three years. Despite learning about Jesus week after week, Jaden finished out her time in Beach Club^® without ever taking the step to personally make Jesus her Forever Friend.

Beach Club^® may have ended for Jaden five years ago, but its impact continued.

Pictured above, the first Great Treasure Day (2015) at Ellendale Elementary School in Bartlett, TN, where Jaden first attended Beach Club^® and heard about Jesus. 

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. Lynn Butler, Minister of Education and Outreach from Ellendale Baptist Church shares this incredible story. While visiting his son's church (First Baptist Church Covington TN) to witness his grandchild being dedicated, he saw a familiar face.

You guessed it: that face was Jaden's.

At the end of the service, when the pastor gave the invitation for people to respond, Jaden came forward. Now a 10th grader, Jaden chose to make that decision she had contemplated so often years before. She chose to make Jesus her Forever Friend, once and for all! 

As the church celebrated her decision, Jaden whispered something in the pastor's ear. The pastor then shared what Jaden had whispered: "KiDs Beach Club^® was a big influence on her life. It helped Jaden come to the point of asking Jesus to be her Lord and Savior!"

"We may never know the influence that we have on the children that we minister to, whether today or years down the road."
--Lynn Butler

Thank you, Lynn, for sharing this incredible story! Sometimes we never know the impact, and then there are God-stories like this, where we get to see the impact years later.

Thank you to all of our volunteers who serve so faithfully each week. We pray Jaden's story encourages you to not give up or get discouraged! 

To share an impact story and possibly be featured in future Surf Reports, send the details along with some pictures to stories@kbcmail.org.