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Ever had one of those moments that the apostle Paul talks about in Ephesians 3:20? A moment where God shows us that He is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us?

KiDs Beach Club® experienced one of those days last Thursday on North Texas Giving Day. From 6 a.m. until midnight, 116 people provided a gift and joined our mission to connect kids to Jesus Christ and put Bibles in their hands. Our generous friends provided nearly $26,000, which we praise God for. 

The part of God doing something more abundantly beyond all we ask or think came during the last four hours of North Texas Giving Day in a radio studio in downtown Dallas. Chris Krok, who hosts a talk show every weeknight between 8 p.m. and midnight on WBAP 820 AM, saw the state of affairs in our country and decided that enough was enough. The lawlessness of the night included riots after a police shooting in Charlotte, N.C and even protests through the streets of Dallas. 

Krok wanted to do something big on North Texas Giving Day saying “its an amazing night tonight to talk about something that stems at the source of all of this, not having God in a child’s life and they grow up and that void is filled with something else.” Krok said “I believe this is at the center of everything that is going on in Charlotte, in Tulsa, in Dallas. People are mad and angry and rioting.”

Krok then encouraged his listeners to give to KiDs Beach Club® which is giving every child in every Beach Club an Explorer’s Study Bible and then teaching them how to read it and apply it to their lives. His appeal to his loyal listeners was simply, “it gives you a chance to help stop this.”

For four straight hours, he repeatedly asked his listeners to give donations with the numbers of WBAP’s frequency, 820, to help track the impact this audience can make. Within the first hour, donations came in for $820, $82, $28.20 and $8.20 and after the show ended, more than 30 donors contributed in excess of $3,500.

The dollar amount shows an amazing measurable impact but the immeasurable impact will take place in the days to come. During Krok’s program, WBAP, a 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station, has a signal that blasts into 38 states. Krok, who was the keynote speaker at the KiDs Beach Club® Bibles For Beach Club Benefit Dinner and Auction this past April, educated his vast audience for four straight hours about how 62 percent of the children who attend a Beach Club don’t have a church home and how getting God’s word into their hands during Beach Clubs will change the culture of America.

One day later, a local politician who was listening to the show, called the KiDs Beach Club® corporate office wanting information about getting Beach Clubs in the elementary schools in his town and vowed to encourage other politicians to do the same.

Please join us in prayer that this seed that Krok spread about KiDs Beach Club® landed in good soil and will result in thousands more children hearing the word of God in many new Beach Clubs around America.

As Jesus mentioned in His parable in Matthew 13:3-9, the seed that lands in good soil “yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.” Many heard Krok last Thursday talking about KiDs Beach Club®, Teaching KiDs Truth, and we praise God for his provision and incredible answer to prayer.

Listen to the Chris Krok Show from Thursday, Sept. 22:

8:00-9:30 p.m.
https://audioboom.com/boos/5083897-9-22-krok-800-830?t=0

8:30-9:00 p.m.
https://audioboom.com/boos/5083898-9-22-krok-830-900?t=0

9:00-9:30 p.m. (with Alex Gonzales, Hickory Tree Baptist Church)
https://audioboom.com/boos/5083899-9-22-krok-900-930?t=0

9:30-10:00 p.m.
https://audioboom.com/boos/5083900-9-22-krok-930-1000?t=0

10:00-10:30 p.m.
https://audioboom.com/boos/5083900-9-22-krok-930-1000?t=0

10:30-11:00 p.m.
https://audioboom.com/boos/5083902-9-22-krok-1030-1100?t=0

Thank you to those who gave a gift last week on North Texas Giving Day. Friends of KiDs Beach Club® were able to help us surpass our goal of $25,000 and gifts continued to come in to us this week by mail or through our website.

A record total of 116 gifts were made to KiDs Beach Club® through the North Texas Giving Day website and those totaled $14,444. Eight donors made contributions directly to KBC through the website or mail totaling another $1,546. Another donor provided a gift of $10,000 of which half was earmarked for matching funds essentially doubling the impact of our first $5,000 in donations last Thursday. The total given to KBC as a result of North Texas Giving Day is $25,990.

One thing that stands out is that KiDs Beach Club® is reaching an even wider audience than ever before. There were 45 donors on the list who gave to KiDs Beach Club® for the first time, including several listeners of the Chris Krok Show on WBAP Radio, who essentially used his four-hour show on North Texas Giving Day as a radio-thon to raise money for KiDs Beach Club®. Those first-time donors helped raise more than $3,000.

One KBC family gave $2,750, which is the price it costs for a church to sponsor a Beach Club. Two other donors each gave $1,000 and another six donors contributed at least $500. Nearly all of the remaining gifts were $100 or less.

All donations will help KiDs Beach Club® provide ministerial assistance for churches or be used to purchase Explorer’s Study Bibles for kids in our clubs who have not yet received one. It only costs $20 to put a Bible in the hand of a child. If you were unable to give and would still like to, you can do so here.

You likely saw our aggressive social media campaign that reached a total of 45,121 people on Facebook. Our tweets on North Texas Giving Day were liked or retweeted 149 times and our Instagram account engaged with nearly 300 people. All three of our social media accounts added several followers last week. If you’re not already following us on social media, we would love to welcome you to those communities. If you do follow us on social media, invite your friends and colleagues to follow us as well.

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.”