What a great four weeks it’s been at Kids Can! Summer Day Camp! This year’s camp for 3rd-6th graders in Springfield City Schools focused on helping kids develop their creative writing skills while getting to know the Author of Life. Camp director Tyler Worley and assistant director Rhonda Fellows have done a great job leading […]
Recently in our staff meeting we discussed how “transactional” our society gets, and how it colors our relationship with God — the mindset that I’ll do something for you, if you do something for me in return. But when you start looking at Scripture, you realize that God’s love is not transactional at all. In […]
We know, we know – spring is barely here, but at SCYM we’re hard at work planning for our 8th year of Kids Can! Summer Day Camp, scheduled for June 20 to July 15. Around 40 kids from city elementary schools will gather each weekday on the grounds of Zion Lutheran Church for five hours […]
Getting the word out about our sale! Selling jewelry at City Hall! Enjoying Popsicles on a hot day. Day campers competing in Mini-World Cup! The daughter of one of our volunteers models two of our hair clips.
The second and third weeks of camp have been great! The campers were split into five different businesses (jewelry, hairclips, baking, photography, and candles) that are each making products to sell downtown July 13th and 14th. Last Friday the campers had a lot of fun on our field trips to the Heritage Center and the […]
The Kids Can Candle Co., hard at work. (You can buy theirs and all the campers’ items downtown on July 13 and 14.) AmeriCorps*VISTA Tim Voltz and two campers show some of their produce grown at the community garden. Kids sing in chapel time On Thursday the campers learned where India is, and the conditions […]
The Kids Can Candle Co., hard at work. (You can buy theirs and all the campers’ items downtown on July 13 and 14.) AmeriCorps*VISTA Tim Voltz and two campers show some of their produce grown at the community garden. Kids sing in chapel time On Thursday the campers learned where India is, and the conditions […]
Last week (June 21-25) was the first week of Kids Can Summer Day Camp! The kids are having a lot of fun and are keeping very busy. When they first arrive in the morning they have breakfast which is followed by chapel. In chapel the kids sing, dance, pray, and listen to a guest speaker. […]
It doesn’t feel like it, but we are already 1/4th of the way through camp. Over 40 students spent last week playing, gardening, being taught basic businesses principles, and learning about Jesus! Our two interns, Michael and Kelsey, will be updating the blog periodically to let you all know what they are seeing and how […]