A Unique Way to Help Out the Kids!
We are blessed to have a great partner in The New Seeds Initiative who are collaborating with local entrepreneurs to help our teens to accomplish their goals in life through mentoring, training, and learning to save money. Teens who enroll are matched dollar for dollar as they save towards college or to start their own business when they graduate. Mentors work with them to understand planning, implementing and funding a project. Fun classes and activities bring the concepts to life as our teens equip themselves for the challenges after high school.
We are blessed again through the Ads-4-Next website which funds the New Seeds Initiative. Until December 31st, they will be donating a portion of every ad bought on their website. You get a great advertising venue and make an impact on our teens at the same time! It doesn’t get any better than that! For more information about this program, call Terry Johnson at his Office: 512.686.1990 or his cell:325.725.1935.
We have hit 80% of our $50,000 match!
We have over 80% Let's finish this goal before Christmas!
We are making progress to match the $50,000 match put up by an anonymous donor. We are at the 80% mark with one month left to go! We need to keep building on the early success until we have matched the full amount! Help us finish this match by Christmas!
Remember your gift, if you haven’t given in the last 12 months, is doubled! Don’t hesitate, give today! Make your donation pack twice the punch as we continue to fight poverty, high school drop out rates, juvenile delinquency through quality programming, encouragement, and fun at the Boys & Girls Club of Abilene!
Don’t forget you can contribute online too. Just click the Donate button and it will take you to our secure donation site. Your information is kept confidential and we will send you a tax receipt too!
Christmas in the Country
One of the truly wonderful holiday events the kids at the Club experience through the generosity of the T and T Foundation, Mrs. Lale Estes, and the gracious hosting by the Hasten family, is the Christmas in the Country. We traveled to Novice to the Hasten ranch where kids enjoyed hayrides, pictures with Santa, roasting hot dogs over an open fire, May Farms animal menagerie, and a bouncy house. Enjoy the many pictures of this year’s Christmas in the country!
We Are Blessed!
The Boys & Girls Club of Abilene is truly blessed by our community and we have the kids express this through their personal art work. Picking a winner can be difficult but we do have four winners whose art work can be seen on the digital billboard off of Southwest Drive. Be looking for the following when you drive by!
Givan
Grace
Jada
Noel
November Newsletter is Ready
Our latest newsletter is here! You can download it from here or if you would like to get a hard copy edition, you can email us at: markabgc@yahoo.com and put Mail Me Newsletter in the subject line and we will be sure you get on the mailing list.
Enjoy!
Has The Holiday Spirit Hit You Yet?
Picking up items to complete our quarterly newsletter, I listened with a smile on my face to the first official “Christmas Carol” being played over the speakers. We had just finished Halloween and are getting ready for Thanksgiving, and yet the Carol of the Bells was wafting through the air.
We had already gotten into the holiday spirit when our $8,000 check from the T & T Family Foundation came for our annual Christmas parties. Mrs. Lale Estes has been a major factor in this wonderful foundation bringing the joy of Christmas to every Club member. Since 2004 they have donated $65,000 towards giving the kids a tremendous Christmas party, complete with a bag of goodies for the holidays. Every child is guaranteed a wonderful present, courtesy of the T & T Family Foundation and Mrs. Lale!
The format has expanded to our Christmas parties covering multiple days including Christmas in the Country, Teen Night Skating Party, and then the final day of school party before the Christmas break. We have been giving the kids a new drawstring backpack every year and through the generosity of the donation, we are able to make sure they are high quality, durable, and cosmetically pleasing to the eye so the kids wear and use them with pride. Every bag comes with all sorts of goodies; treats, toys, games, and practical items too. It is always fun to be able to shop and plan wonderful activities for the kids at the Clubs!
Keep coming back as we will constantly bring you updates with the holiday magic at the Clubs!
Golf Classic for Kids was a “Classic!”
We want to thank everyone who came out to support the Boys & Girls Club Golf Classic for Kids! We had 80 golfers and were able to raise some decent funds! Floyd Jones, Ed Rush, Brad Wilson, David Stovall, Kimberley Cole, Jerry Carter led the way to planning this year’s event and everyone had a great time. One comment I heard over and over was “Such an enjoyable tournament! Everyone is so relaxed and having a good time.” Absolutely! We hope if you played this year you will join us again next year and if you missed out, make plans now for Columbus Day 2012!
Enjoy the pictures from the tournament!
First Place Team
Second Place Team
Third Place Team
Our Golf Chairman and his team
Our friends from the Mental Health Association
Our friends from NextEra Energy
Suspicious Characters...
Golf committee member Jerry Carter and his team
Two of our illustrious volunteers!
Golf Goodie Bag King (Ed Rush) and the Tom's Tire World team
Even more suspicious characters...
Nelson Club Wins Kickball Tournament on National Day of Play!
Kickball Champions for 2011!
It was a great day of kids playing, competing, and all of the Clubs brought competitive teams! It was great to see kids work together as they sought a central purpose; to win the bragging rights to kickball! The Nelson Girls team was comprised of Highland girls as well to fill out the full team. How great is it to see competitors working together on one team! Great work kids! All of you were excellent!
Day of Play for Kids!
This week at the Clubs we are getting ready for our participation in the National Day of Play. We have selected Kickball as our “get out and play” sport and the clubs are putting together teams for a tournament on Friday, 4:30 p.m., September 23rd, at our Fannin Club. We will be having two divisions; Boys & Girls.
Come out and support your Club and root your team on!
Kickball is King on National Day of Play!
Mark it on your calendars! Next Friday afternoon, September 23rd at 4:30 p.m., the Boys & Girls Club of Abilene branches will meet on the kickball fields at Fannin and duel until there is a winner! Each Club will be bringing a Girl Team and a Boy Team. Simple rules:
3 Innings
10 run rule for each inning
Teams have to have at least 5 players who are third grade or lower
This is a sudden death shoot out
Traveling Trophies will be awarded to the winning Clubs for them to display until they defend their title the next time they meet on the field.
The National Day of Play is a nation wide effort by Boys & Girls Club of America to get kids out and play! We have chosen kickball as our venue to get the kids out and play. Come and join us!
Fannin Club is located at 1902 Shelton.
