This year Oak Grove Baptist Church created a new basketball league, Upward Basketball. In the past, the boys have always played at our local Sportsplex. It was considered church basketball but hardly anyone actually played for their own church. (?) Anyway, a lot of the times the teams just get stacked with best buddies and the best players. And sometimes there were some Non-Christian attitudes by adults that really bothered me. I mean, hey, these are kids...OUR KIDS!
Carter Bondurant, Christian Barbee, Cam and Jacob Boren
Upward Sports, the world’s largest Christian sports program for children, was created with a vision to provide the best sports experience possible for every child. Each year some one million people around the world play, coach, referee or volunteer in Upward Sports Leagues and Camps hosted by more than 2,400 churches. These churches have taken Upward Sports Programs to 67 countries on mission trips. Anyone – children and volunteers of any faith or no faith – can participate in Upward Sports. Specifically designed for children in K5- sixth grade, Upward Sports aims to bring out “the winner” in every child – regardless of the game’s score.
Camden and Cade Carter both played awesome games this year. Each team was computer generated due to each child having try outs. Each player was rated, therefore, NO STACKED TEAMS! Oak Grove had superb support by their members that every time we would attend a game the more in awe I became. From what I understand, Upward will become a big part of our town in the future not only at Oak Grove but other churches too. Soccer, Basketball, Cheer leading, etc
Cade Carter with the ball.
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Yes Susan!!! I LOVE my camera! Let me know when you get it and I'll show you a few things :)
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