Introducing Salem’s Game Ready. Life Ready. Basketball Program
For the past couple years, Salem Covenant Church has partnered with Next Level Sports (NLS) to facilitate summer sports camps, along with Movement Mondays and Tumbling Thursdays for preschool-age children during the school year. NLS, which is directed by Shelli Streeper, Salem’s Outreach Director, has a strong reputation for executing their mission of engaging, developing, and leading athletes to their next level. Using the ‘Game Ready. Life Ready.’ curriculum, young athletes are not only learning to move their bodies and how to play various sport games, they are learning how to live out their faith in sports and life.
Encouraged by the success of our budding sport ministry, Salem will be offering a basketball program starting in January for children in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Because there is rarely a basketball program option available for this age group, we have a chance to be a niche in the sports world! Most importantly, our goal is that participants will encounter Christ and deepen their faith through their sport experience at Salem Covenant Church.
Register HERE (If you have not created a KidCheck account, you will need to complete that process and then reclick on this link to register.)
Practice Schedule:
- Preschool: Wednesdays, January 4—February 22, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Players bring a bag lunch and parents do not need to be present.
- Kindergarten and 1st Grade: Tuesdays, January 3—February 21,
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Jamboree: Saturday, February 25, 2017
For Salem members who have a heart to serve kids and enjoy sports, there are ministry opportunities for you! We need at least four coaches who will help facilitate pre-scripted practice sessions. We also need SUPER FANS! who will cheer on and encourage players at practice sessions and the jamboree. Super fans will also build relationships with family members and other spectators; I like to call it ministering to the bleachers!