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Getting Down to "Biz Ba$ics"

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It’s been more than a year of dreaming, praying, and planning, but on October 7 it all became reality when 16 Hayward Middle School students arrived at Southgate Baptist Church ready to learn how to start and run a business.  It all started with a desire to give academic and life skill support to the […]

Celebrate Kids

Celebrating!

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Did you come out to the Celebrate Kids! Carnival on October 12? If so, we hope you had as much fun as we did! We’re so grateful to God for the organizations that sponsored this year’s Celebrate Kids! Carnival: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Springfield Smiles Family Dentistry High Street Church of the Nazarene Clark Radiation […]

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Hayward Young Life is now Club 517

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The short version: The same great Monday night program for middle schoolers has a new name! Now, the long version! Let’s start with a little bit of SCYM’s history with Young Life:Since as far back as 1999, SCYM has run a middle school Young Life club in Springfield city, independent of (but in friendship with) […]

GirlPower

GirlPower now at all three city middle schools

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We kicked off our first ever GirlPower at Roosevelt Middle School this past Monday! There are a total of 26 awesome 7th and 8th grade girls signed up to participate at Roosevelt’s GP. Our first meeting was a hit! We did a series of icebreakers and get-to-know-each-other games to start off our time together. It’s […]