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Pam Deahl's son had been a part of KiDs Beach Club® at Mohawk Elementary in Richardson, Texas for two years when she decided to start volunteering as a Surf Team Leader at the club two years ago. 

In Deahl’s tight-knit community, she was looking for a way to be involved at her son’s school that would go beyond serving on PTA or being a homeroom mom. She saw in her son's Beach Club that the partnering church often had difficult time finding enough volunteers to fill all the roles needed to effectively run a Beach Club. As a parent, Deahl wanted to help, but ultimately help in making a difference for God's kingdom.

It was also important to her that her child see her serving in his world, and for him to know what it looked like to see his mom taking a stand for Christ. Deahl leads a Surf Team of girls that ranges in personality and spiritual knowledge. In their tight-knit community, there were a lot of church kids. Many parents sent their kids to VBS, Christian camps and Beach Club. Deahl said of her community, "They're OK with Jesus. They're OK with God. But it doesn't necessarily mean they are followers of Jesus Christ." In a close community of people being "fans of Jesus, but not followers of Jesus," she wants the other kids to see that she is a light for Christ.

When she started volunteering, her desire to impact her son expanded to wanting to impact the girls she leads on her Surf Team. These girls desired to be listened to and loved. Deal remembers one girl’s first prayer request was related to receiving material items. By the end of club, she had made such a heart transformation that her prayer request was, “I hope I can always believe and trust in Jesus no matter what the challenge is.”

Deahl not only was working in the lives of these kids, but God also was revealing Himself, convicting her and impacting her through them. Deahl loved spending time with her girls so much that for three weeks after Beach Club ended last spring she opened her home to them for extra time together. The girls would play, have snacks and Deahl would teach them about their identity in Christ and the gospel. "I don't know if these girls will remember anything about Miss Pam, but I just hope they remember that I love them, I love Jesus and I care about them." 

Deahl’s connection to Beach Club started as a parent, but she was impacted by it. Because of that impact, she was inspired to be that light for Christ to her child and the children in her community. Deahl is making a lasting impression on the girls in her Surf Team and the children in her community at Mohawk Elementary. For the club that brought so much impact to her family, she is now giving back and serving.

Parents, if you want to make an impact for God’s kingdom in the lives of children and feel the call to serve in KiDs Beach Club®, contact the church that sponsors your child’s Beach Club to volunteer. Churches, please don’t overlook the parents of the children in your Beach Club who might be willing to serve alongside you in connecting kids to Christ.

Your support of the Bibles for Beach Club program at KiDs Beach Club® allows our ministry to provide every boy and girl enrolled in one of our clubs their own Bible. 

To distribute those Bibles, KiDs Beach Club® started Great Treasure Day in the spring of 2015. It’s a day jam-packed with anticipation and excitement. Now, new Beach Club attendees receive a Bible on Great Treasure Day, which is coming up. Most clubs will hold Great Treasure Day during the month of October on each club’s fifth week.

While nearly every child now receives the NKJV Explorer’s Study Bible, KiDs Beach Club® still has a small inventory of the NIV Devotional Bibles. Some Beach Clubs prefer the Devotional Bible and are given the option to select that version while limited supplies remain. Both the Explorer’s Study Bible and Devotional Bible also are available on the KBC online store.

One of the clubs that continues to use the Devotional Bible is led by residential real estate agents Sidney and Kim Galloway, a couple that volunteers at the Beach Club at Catalina Elementary School in Orlando, Fla. The Galloways recently donated five cases of the KBC Devotional Bibles to pass out in their club.

As members of First Baptist Church Orlando, the Galloways have been serving in Beach Club since the club started during the 2012-13 school year. Since that predates Great Treasure Day, they would personally provide extra copies of the NIV Devotional Bibles so that every child could have one.

Now, they choose to stay with the KBC Devotional Bible, which features 52 weekend devotions designed to take kids from Genesis through Revelation and 260 daily devotions packed with all sorts of “life” issues and challenges facing kids.

Since getting children to read the Bible is the goal, the KBC Devotional Bible is a good option. Sidney said he regularly sees the children, many of whom now have both Bibles, using the Devotional Bible.

“A couple weeks ago before church, I spoke to a single mom of two kids, one who was old enough to attend Beach Club,” Galloway said. “They had the KiDs Beach Club® NIV Devotional Bible. She said that they read from it every day.” 

The Galloways continue to give – both time and financial resources – to KiDs Beach Club because kids reading the Bible and that it’s helping them develop an everlasting relationship with Jesus Christ.

Thank you to all of the friends of KiDs Beach Club® like the Galloways who continue to support our Bibles for Beach Club program to teach truth inside our public elementary schools.

North Texas Giving Day is September 22
September 22 is North Texas Giving Day. It's the day when you can help KiDs Beach Club® continue to Teach KiDs Truth at a time when it's hard for parents to monitor all the untruths their children are hearing these days. Please consider making a special gift that can be used to assist us in Teaching KiDs Truth. It only costs $20 for us to put a Bible in a child's hand inside their public elementary school! Visit kidsbeachclub.org/givingday to make a donation.

Please be aware that the KiDs Beach Club® billing systems have not been hacked or compromised. Our billing systems, including our website, remain secure.

We have gotten complaints in the United States as well as in Canada that someone is fraudulently charging debit/credit cards using our name. If you are notified of an unauthorized debit or credit card charge for a transaction from Kids Beach Club, Euless, Texas without your knowledge, please contact your bank or credit card company to report this incident.

Every year, Jack Terrell, the founder and president of KiDs Beach Club®, comes up with a word or a theme that helps Beach Club leaders throughout the entire school year. This year’s word is passion. 

“If indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” Romans 8:17

“There is a struggle between passion of evil and God’s glory,” Terrell said. “There is that suffering, that dichotomy, that suffering that’s within this word passion. Passion means that there is not only suffering, but there is also the glory.”

Do you remember a time when you saw a passion inside someone?

For Terrell, it’s Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, a 27-year major league pitcher who played for the New York Mets, California Angels and Houston Astros before finishing his career with the Texas Rangers.

In 1993, his final season, in a game against the Chicago White Sox, Ryan plunked Robin Ventura in his arm and Ventura charged the mound where Ryan proceeded to put Ventura in a headlock and started punching him in the noggin. 

“Not only did Nolan Ryan express his passion; not only did Robin Ventura express his passion,” Terrell said. “But in that one moment, all of the fans got to experience in that passion.” 

Last year, KiDs Beach Club® had more than 13,000 boys and girls in weekday Bible clubs. We went over 2,500 volunteers last year in weekday after-school Bible clubs. We saw more than 800 children make Jesus their Forever Friend.

“I’m desiring this year that you and I get so fired up about who Christ is and what He has done in our lives,” Terrell said. “We’re passionate and we’ll take that passion and allow the kids to experience that passion inside of our Beach Clubs.”

Exercise passion. Where would professional athletes be if they didn’t exercise that passion? We have many volunteers who are passionate like Kathy Porter, the club leader at Northrich Elementary School in Richardson, Texas.

Porter exercises her passion. She loves kids and has a passion for kids. She served as a teacher and a principal in public education for 35 years. After she retired she was looking for a way to combine her two passions – her passion for Jesus and her passion for kids. One of her pastors at First Baptist Church Richardson asked her to lead the KiDs Beach Club® they were sponsoring at Northrich. Once she found out what KiDs Beach Club® was about, she jumped at the opportunity. 

“Bringing the Bible and Jesus to a public school to these kids, that’s just what I like to do,” Porter said. “So we found 12 dedicated volunteers who are passionate about the same thing and then we started our program.”

She said about 30 kids came to that first meeting and they were so excited. “Most of them didn’t have a church home and most of them hadn’t heard about Jesus. We were the first opportunity to hear what love Jesus has for them." 

We get to share in God’s glory. That simply means there is an everlasting passion we get to share God’s glory forever.

“I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18

The crowds are coming and those seats in your Beach Club are going to be filled, just like when the Rangers are playing for another division title in front of near-capacity crowds, they will be full, they’ll be full of fans excited and showing passion.

“When you go into your club in just a few weeks, clubs will be full,” Terrell said. “The children will be able to see our everlasting passion, but it doesn’t have to stop there.

“We know our churches have some empty seats, some empty pews and we have the privilege of bringing these children, these families into our church so we can fill those empty pews.

“The reality is that we get to share God’s incredible passion, about what Christ has done to boys and girls, moms and dads so that we can fill the seats of our churches.

Thank you to our volunteers for making this coming school year an absolute passionate blast for the kids.”

KBC’s mission is to mobilize the church to go outside its walls to take the message of Jesus Christ into the heart of its community, which is the local public elementary school. Thousands of volunteers from churches all over the country are busy preparing to kick off another year of connecting kids to Christ and putting Bibles in their hands. 

Leadership Luau is an event designed to equip and inspire these dedicated volunteers to effectively reach kids with the hope of Jesus Christ and present the truth of God’s word. This year’s emphasis is on igniting passion to teach kids the truth of God’s word and included practical ways leaders can weave the gospel message into every element of Beach Club.

Volunteers were also reminded that Beach Clubs meet for one hour per week for 24 weeks of the school year. That’s 24 hours. It’s the equivalent of one day. Leaders are encouraged to make the 24 hours in Beach Club as impactful as possible by staying focused on our vision to give every child a Jesus experience in their public elementary school.

In the last few weeks, KBC has already hosted Leadership Luau events in Andrews, Texas; Augusta, Ga.; Bartlett, Tenn.; Devil’s Lake, N.D.; Frankfort, Ky.; Richardson, Texas; and, Weatherford, Texas.

Here’s what a few volunteers had to say about their experience at Leadership Luau:

“I liked the way that the components of the program were introduced to the new and returning leaders so that each group was able to see the ‘what, why and how’ of the program.”
-- Linda, Southaven Intermediate, Southaven Miss.

“Passion for this ministry on display by the speakers was contagious. I have a genuine opportunity to make a difference in children's lives. I need to pray more about my role and prepare better every week; stay attuned to opportunities that may be presented each KBC day.”
-- Diana, Austin Elementary, Sunnyvale Texas 

“I loved seeing the numbers from all other clubs! I was truly amazed at how God has His hand of favor on Kids Beach Club! That in its self was awesome, but the stories that Brother Jack shared were so encouraging. I also love the new curriculum. I really like the new layout and I think for a lot of people it will be easier to follow. The leadership manual is definitely a plus!”
-- Michelle, Bon Lin Elementary, Bartlett, Tenn. 

“It was a blessing to hear all of the information that the leaders shared, and a delightful encouragement to see everyone there and hear the testimonies that were shared.”
-- Jone, Mohawk Elementary, Richardson Texas

If you haven’t been able to attend a Leadership Luau yet, do not worry. KBC is hosting more Leadership Luau events in the coming weeks. Make plans to attend and register for the Leadership Luau nearest you: Atlanta, Ga.; Baytown, Texas; Biloxi, Miss.; Ennis, Texas; Orlando, Fla.; and, Southlake, Texas. 

Even if you have attended a similar KBC event in the past, you won’t want to miss this event this year! For more information and to register for one of these events, visit kidsbeachclub.org/luau.

Nearly all of our kids are back in school or will be very soon. That means Beach Club is about to start, too. Be sure to contact your child’s school or the sponsoring church to find out when your child’s Beach Club will meet for the first time this fall. You will again need to fill out a permission slip in order for your child to attend.

We hope all of our returning Beach Club kids will help to continue making Jesus cool at school®. Check out this helpful advice:

• Carry your Bible with you to school.
• Behave in ways that are pleasing to God.
• Wear your KiDs Beach Club® t-shirt.
• Tell your friends what you learn about Jesus.
• Read your Bible during your free reading time.
• Go to a church that teaches about the Bible. Invite a friend to go too!
• Pray to Jesus during your "moment of silence" and before you eat lunch.
• Show love to everyone... just like Jesus did.
• Come to KiDs Beach Club® and bring a friend with you.

We encourage you to pray for your children as they start a new school year. Pray that your children show love, compassion and respect and for them to be a light to others. Ask God to surround them with friends and teachers who will be good influences in their lives and be supportive and encouraging. As for God’s protection and to keep them free from evil.

While you’re praying for your children, remember to say a prayer for all educators and our Beach Club volunteers. Take the time to thank God for their dedication and ask for them to have a positive impact on your children. Ask the Lord to give them an extra-special blessing with the start of school.