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Speaker 3: This morning's cup of coffee, it's going to be a
Speaker 3: little different as I'm bringing on my good friend Kelvin
Speaker 3: Dogg Smith to talk about a local event that is
Speaker 3: very important to him and very important to the area.
Speaker 3: For our national listeners, I understand that maybe if you
Speaker 3: don't have something like this in your area, you can
Speaker 3: try to be inspired by what Dog's about to tell
Speaker 3: us about. So Dog, go ahead and let the listeners
Speaker 3: know what a venture working with.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, Tomorrow night, which is the first Wednesday night
Speaker 4: in December, is our annual SCA Christmas Party, which is
Speaker 4: fellowship with Christian Athletes and I've I've been blessed to
Speaker 4: be a part of the SCA board here in Jones
Speaker 4: County for about twelve years now and this is actually
Speaker 4: our believe fourteenth Christmas Party and what it is is
Speaker 4: we we have elementary age kids adopted throughout the county.
Speaker 4: We actually have we've had one hundred kids adopted before
Speaker 4: this year, we've.
Speaker 2: Got a little over eighty.
Speaker 4: And how we come up with these kids, First of all,
Speaker 4: if we go through the elementary schools and their counselors,
Speaker 4: because the counselors know, you know, the families and the
Speaker 4: kids in their situations that.
Speaker 2: You know that might be in need or whatever the
Speaker 2: case may be.
Speaker 4: But anyway, each each athletic team and sometimes we have
Speaker 4: you know, more kids, and we do teams, and so
Speaker 4: we'll have some other groups adopt, but normally every athletic
Speaker 4: team in Jones County and that is of course three
Speaker 4: county schools south West and East and then Laurel and
Speaker 4: then we also have the all Christian School and then
Speaker 4: we also have all the athletic teams at Jones College.
Speaker 2: They all adopt a kid.
Speaker 4: We get them their information and uh, it really is
Speaker 4: this is one This is probably one of my most
Speaker 4: favorite events we do every year.
Speaker 2: And I think you'll hear that from a multitude of
Speaker 2: people say the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's just a blessing to you know, to be able
Speaker 4: to provide provide Christmas for these kids a lot of
Speaker 4: times their situations, this might very well be the only.
Speaker 2: Christmas that they that they have.
Speaker 4: Uh but the kids, the six say, the teams at
Speaker 4: the schools, they get just as big of a blessing
Speaker 4: out of it, not only just being able to watch
Speaker 4: the kids open their Christmas gifts tomorrow night. But they
Speaker 4: all take a day, their coaches take them. They all
Speaker 4: take a day when they get their lists for each
Speaker 4: kid they've adopted, and they'll go take a day and
Speaker 4: it's just a great team bonding. They'll go shopping for
Speaker 4: the kids, and I mean we hear that all the time.
Speaker 4: They'll they'll get just a bunch of a blessing out
Speaker 4: of that. I have a day of together and shopping.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know. Then then they do the party.
Speaker 4: But uh, but they all we all kind of migrate
Speaker 4: down to Jones College tomorrow five thirty. And what we'll
Speaker 4: do is we'll take all the adopted kids and their
Speaker 4: families and we'll feed them a nice little deal over.
Speaker 2: Let's be clear.
Speaker 3: That'll be today at five thirty.
Speaker 2: We're recording. Sorry, yeah, I'm sorry. Uh. Yes, It's always
Speaker 2: the first Wednesday of December.
Speaker 4: And yes, we're playing this on Wednesday morning and uh so, yeah,
Speaker 4: it'll be later tonight. Uh, but we'll feed the kids
Speaker 4: and their adopted families, you know tonight.
Speaker 2: Uh over to cafeteria Joan.
Speaker 4: And at the same time, we'll have all the sports teams
Speaker 4: in the Fine Arts building and we have a little
Speaker 4: program for them and a devotion and all in about.
Speaker 2: Six maybe ten.
Speaker 4: After six will kind of disperse, and we have so
Speaker 4: many that we use both facilities. We'll have all the
Speaker 4: Joltes teams and the kids that they're adopted in the
Speaker 4: main gym, and down to p building we'll have all
Speaker 4: the other kids that were adopted by the high schools
Speaker 4: and other groups down there.
Speaker 2: And kids walk in and it's a scene.
Speaker 4: We call it organized chaos because it is very organized.
Speaker 4: Just takes a lot of time, two three months planning
Speaker 4: this and getting it together. But when the kids walk in,
Speaker 4: all the teams are screaming.
Speaker 2: They got poster board the names on them.
Speaker 4: They go find their spot and they get there and
Speaker 4: you just.
Speaker 2: Have Christmas with these kids.
Speaker 4: And one thing that we all that we encourage all
Speaker 4: the teams to do is one of their gifts be
Speaker 4: a Bible. You know, a children's age appropriate age Bible
Speaker 4: for these kids, so they also get a Bible, which
Speaker 4: is you know, a big deal for it being a
Speaker 4: SCA event is we want to make sure that they
Speaker 4: see and hear and be able to take the word
Speaker 4: of God and fill the love of Jesus with them
Speaker 4: the only tonight when we have this event, but take
Speaker 4: it with them as well. But it's now, it's a great,
Speaker 4: great event. It's a touching. It can be emotional. Sometimes
Speaker 4: it's a blessing. Like I said, not just for the
Speaker 4: kids that are adopting, that are getting Christmas, but being
Speaker 4: able to provide that too. I think the teams and
Speaker 4: coaches and parents that come and witness it. It's just
Speaker 4: a blessing for all. It's one of the one of
Speaker 4: the best things we do every year.
Speaker 2: Dog.
Speaker 3: This is baseball, basketball, football, soccer, this is everything everything.
Speaker 2: It's everything.
Speaker 4: We have band adopt, we have fifth A, we have
Speaker 4: choir because usually we have more kids than we do
Speaker 4: all the athletic teams. Uh so we'll have we have
Speaker 4: student counsel.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I mean, uh, we even got the outside organizations like
Speaker 4: the Ellis Club. Uh there in Ellis Field, the women's
Speaker 4: organization there in Ellisfield. They've adopted two kids. We have
Speaker 4: some of our board members that adopt kids. So it's
Speaker 4: it's not just the athletic teams. That's kind of where
Speaker 4: it started, and it has grown from there because, like
Speaker 4: I said, sometimes we have a lot more kids turned
Speaker 4: in that need you know, need this, then we do
Speaker 4: might have teams. So we reach out to some other groups, uh,
Speaker 4: student groups or organizations and they always this man, God
Speaker 4: has his hands over this event and it just all
Speaker 4: always works out.
Speaker 3: And this isn't something that the student athletes are required
Speaker 3: to do there. They want to do this. They're willing
Speaker 3: members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, So it's not
Speaker 3: something that they've been forced to do.
Speaker 2: Right. No, no, they're not forced to do it.
Speaker 4: But I but I tell you what, we're very blessed
Speaker 4: in Jones County with great coaches and a great school
Speaker 4: district and superintendent administration because s c A UH has
Speaker 4: a strong just impact on on the campuses and you know,
Speaker 4: each each school has s c A every week UH
Speaker 4: in what we call our campus hotel. And then we
Speaker 4: encourage you know, each coach if they're willing to have
Speaker 4: a team huddle every week with just their teams. Uh
Speaker 4: So s c A has a big, big impact on
Speaker 4: the campuses as well. But but no, SCA is not
Speaker 4: required to come to the party tomorrow night is not required.
Speaker 2: But I don't know very many that that's use not
Speaker 2: to go though.
Speaker 3: That's what makes it special, the fact that you've got
Speaker 3: high school age kids that aren't being told they have
Speaker 3: to do something, but they want to do something.
Speaker 2: Generally, Yeah, uh, you're you're exactly right.
Speaker 4: And now I don't I think each year that passes
Speaker 4: by it just we can. We can look at the
Speaker 4: world around us and even our surrounding chare locally and
Speaker 4: just see this. We just need more and more, uh
Speaker 4: you know of things like this and uh you know
Speaker 4: kids doing things like this more and more, and just
Speaker 4: the way the world is around us.
Speaker 3: Well, before we sign off, tell everyone one more time,
Speaker 3: uh when and where and that way folks that want
Speaker 3: to see this firsthand participate can can hear that.
Speaker 4: Again, anybody wants to witness this, I encourage you to
Speaker 4: come on.
Speaker 2: But this is tonight.
Speaker 4: It is always the first Wednesday night in December, but
Speaker 4: it is tonight. Uh. If you just want to come
Speaker 4: in time, just to see the kids walk in and
Speaker 4: see their looks on their faces and get their Christmas gifts.
Speaker 2: I would show up at the.
Speaker 4: Pee building to Jones or maybe even the main the
Speaker 4: Howard Gymnasium now on campus at Jones about six o'clock
Speaker 4: either either location, and and you can experience it, and
Speaker 4: it usually don't last long, you know, but you'll get it.
Speaker 4: You'll get a great blessing out out of this tonight.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to come and be a part of
Speaker 2: it or just just see it for yourself.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, thanks again for what you're doing. This has been
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