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KiDs Beach Club® has added Ai-Ling Teng and Melissa Leach to its club relations team. Teng will serve as a club relations director in the Houston, Texas area, while Leach will serve in an interim capacity in north Tarrant County 

Teng is a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary pursuing a Master’s of Arts in Christian education. She is originally from Taiwan and has lived in the Houston area since 2007. In 2008, she answered God’s call to children’s ministry. In addition to her position with KBC, Teng currently serves as an intern in children and family ministry at Southwest Chinese Baptist Church in Stafford.

Teng has a clear call and passion to lead children to Christ and to equip parents to be faith trainers in their homes. She and her husband Samuel have two sons, Johann and Enoch. 

Leach graduated from Texas Tech University in December 2015 with a bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies.

She has actively served in leadership positions in children’s and student ministry. While in college, Leach volunteered at a Beach Club in Lubbock, Texas.

She recently moved home to Hurst, Texas, and attends North Richland Hills Baptist Church.

KiDs Beach Club® is also looking to fill other positions, click here for a full list of positions currently available.

KiDs Beach Club® would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May the peace and joy of Christmas be with you today and throughout the new year!

How is your family celebrating Jesus’ birthday? The Christmas Story can be found in the Bible in Luke, chapter two. Your child has already heard the Christmas Story in Beach Club, so please take the time to re-read it with your whole family. You can follow our social media posts during the week leading Christmas when we’ll share the Christmas Story there.

Beach Club will resume in early 2016. Be sure to check with the church that sponsors your local Beach Club or your child’s school so they won’t miss any meetings.

With 2016 just around the corner, it seems only appropriate to look back to see what KiDs Beach Club® was able to accomplish this year:

• Since September, 355 children have welcomed Christ into their lives by making Jesus their forever friend. 

• Great Treasure Day has been a tremendous success with more than 17,000 Bibles getting into the hands of children in 2015. 

• The organization added nine new staff members, created separate teams for strategic growth and club relations, and added a senior area director position. Suzanne Massey and Dr. Rod Masteller will join the board January 1. 

• Established a new college internship program in marketing and club relations.

• Paul McCollum added the responsibility of development director and has already implemented new donor-onboarding events, including the KBC Charity Hunt.

• Experienced a 24 percent growth rate, which equates to 35 new clubs, several new school districts and one new state: Louisiana.

• With the gift of a Bible to every kid in every Beach Club, found new ways to teach them how to be hands on with their new Bibles. Implemented new “Hang 10” pages that encourage kids to spend 10 minutes each day reading their Bible.

• Made commitment to offer a summer camp, which will start in July 2016. The goal is to help kids take what they learn at Beach Club to a new level and become leaders for Christ on their school campuses.

• Built database of 24,000 contacts in email distribution program that we regularly communicate to with the monthly Surf Report and Bibles for Beach Club e-newsletters. Our subscribers also get messages about other events like North Texas Giving Day and #GivingTuesday. 

• The organization’s Facebook and Twitter accounts are seeing new followers daily and we added Instagram and Vimeo accounts to help us better engage with our community and tell the incredible stories in KiDs Beach Club, including Great Treasure Day. Be sure to like us at @KiDsBeachClub and share our content. Share your own content by using the #KiDsBeachClub hashtag.

• KBC moved into a new corporate office space in Bedford, Texas the last week of 2015, thanks to a surprise donor who offered up office space in his building. There are currently 14 offices with additional room that will allow our ministry to continue to grow.

We could not do it with our donors, volunteers, staff and of course our amazing Beach Club kids. Our wins are your wins. Thank you for your support!

If you have not yet made a year-end gift to KiDs Beach Club®, your support would be appreciated. Click here to make a tax-deductible gift before the December 31 deadline.

KiDs Beach Club® began handing out a Bible to every child in every Beach Club last spring when the organization implemented Great Treasure Day. A total of 10,886 children received a Bible last spring. This fall, another 6,891 children received their own copy of God’s Word.

A quick look at the math shows that 17,777 children have received a Bible as a result of Great Treasure Day. Anyone recognize the symbolism with that total? God's provided for that need almost to the penny.

Don’t forget to mark your calendar so you can join us at the next Bibles for Beach Club Benefit Dinner & Auction April 16, 2016 at the Hurst Conference Center so we can continue handing out God’s Word to children in public schools.

SUPPORT BIBLES FOR BEACH CLUB

With 2015 coming to a close, we want to gently remind you that the deadline is rapidly approaching for you to get the tax benefit of a gift to KiDs Beach Club®.

Your generous gifts greatly support the work we’re doing at KiDs Beach Club®. We’re impacting communities for God’s Kingdom, sharing Christ in public schools, fostering life change in the hearts of children and we’re connecting families to a church family. Together, let’s connect kids to Christ and put Bibles in their hands.

MAKE A GIFT TO KIDS BEACH CLUB®

KBC is an IRS qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and your year-end gift allows you to beat the December 31 deadline for calendar year tax deductions.