Your Saturday Sports Monthly News & Updates
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Welcome to our monthly Saturday Sports News Letter!
The Bible says in Colossians 3:23-24, "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve."
Our hope is to use this newsletter to
Inform
,
Inspire,
and
Improve
the Kingdom work of Saturday Sports because we serve the Lord Jesus and we want to give our best to His Kingdom work! Here is what is in our first newsletter:
- Artie's Thoughts
- What To Expect
- This Month's Tip, Tool, & Story
- What's New
- Recreational Resilience
- Fresno Unified New Saturday Academy Program
- Staff Spotlight
- Building Resiliency
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As we move into the second month of our new school year, our Saturday Sports ministry is now at full speed ahead. As is usually the case, we have, on average, 20 active sites each Saturday morning with over 1,000 kids and parents participating.
For 11 years now, ENP’s partnerships have led our community in opening up our local elementary schools, providing additional green space for our kids to enjoy some fun activities during their weekend.
The added value we provide is the relational connectivity between our heart-filled volunteers and the kids in our neighborhoods. And this year we are adding more resilience-based recreational activities to deepen the impact our partnerships are already making.
The last 5 years has seen a lot of public dialogue in Fresno in the area of parks, green space, trails and youth recreation. Two years ago, the City’s Parks and Recreation department began a joint-use program similar to ENP’s Saturday Sports, opening schools to be used as parks. There’s been a Parks Master Plan completed for our city, and most recent is the Measure P tax initiative that will provide millions of additional dollars to our city’s parks, trails, and even arts programs.
ENP is proud that our partnerships have pioneered the work of adding additional green space for our community. We see the value of what quality programming can do for our youth and neighborhoods, and we look forward to what is in store for both our partnerships, our youth, our schools and neighborhoods.
Thanks to each of you for your time, talents and treasures as we continue to serve our community.
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Artie Padilla
Executive Director of ENP
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Each month along with updates we may share some…
Tips
– Suggestions, ideas and examples of what other Saturday Sports teams are doing to be more intentional about having a greater impact in the lives of children and families through Saturday Sports
Tools
– Resources that can help you be more effective in stewarding your Saturday Sports ministry. We will be collecting and sharing game, craft and devotional / character talk ides for you to connect and inspire your Saturday Sports Students
Inspiring Stories
– F
rom partners like you!
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This Month's Tip:
Conflict
Resolution
Here
is a here is a link to a great resource on resolving conflict with kids.
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This Month's Tool:
Rock Paper Scissor Tag
Here
is a link for instructions on how to play.
Here
is a short video of a group playing Rock Paper Scissor Tag.
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This Month's Inspiring Story:
Recreational Resilience
Throughout the years, our work in elementary schools has expanded to meet the need of our students. The Saturday Sports department now spans the gap between school programming and Saturday only programming.
Outside of our current 22 sites of Saturday Sports, we are also partnering with college interns at a handful of elementary schools to run multiple recreational resiliency programs, such Beat the Odds (a SEL-building drum circle program), yoga, and Fun Fit PE.
Read more about the drum circle program from an outside perspective
here
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Fresno Unified New Saturday Academy Program
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Starting this school year, FUSD has begun to roll out their new attendance recovery program, Saturday Academy in every school in the district.
Saturday Academy (SA) is designed to extend learning for students, recover lost instructional time due to an all-day absence, accelerate academics, and recover lost revenue for the district/school site. The program officially started a couple weeks ago on Oct 6, 2018.
The feedback we have received from our Saturday Sports (SS) partners has been positive. Several SA teachers said they want to bring their students out to participate in SS. The next SA is scheduled for Oct 20th.
Click
here
for the SA calendar.
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If you've been to any of our recent events, you've seen that our team has grown and changed over the course of the year. Specifically in the Saturday Sports department we have two relatively new faces.
Learn more about us below...
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Brian Semsem
Saturday Sports Director
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Born and raised in Delano, CA. Married to his best friend, Jessica Semsem for nineteen wonderful years. Five amazing children, six wonderful grandchildren. The love of family is the source of Brian's passion for loving and serving others in our community. As the new Saturday Sports Director, Brian is looking forward to the great privilege of working with all of our partnership volunteers and school staff throughout this great city who are passionate about kids, family, and community!
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Amy Savage
Saturday Sports Coordinator
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Amy was born and raised in Fresno, where she attended Fresno Pacific University and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She is passionate about helping children reach their potential. She is also currently serving as the Mentoring Program Manager for another local nonprofit that mentors elementary students during their lunch hour. In her free time, she enjoys reading, outdoor activities, and spending time with family and friends.
If you'd like to learn more about our other new staff members and how they're working to change Fresno through their passions, click
here
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Building Resiliency - Saturday - Oct 20th
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Resilience is a set of skills, abilities, and capacities that enable children and adults alike to adapt, cope and gain mastery over difficulties and challenges in life.
The core building block of resilience in children are healthy, trusting relationships with adults who are consistently present in their lives and care for them.
Here
is list of Seven Essential Building Blocks of Resilience.
To learn more about resilience and how we can make an even bigger impact on the lives of our students, sign up for our Resilience Conference
here
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We look forward to many more helpful newsletters along the way. Let us know if you have any thoughts or want to make sure we include something each time!
- Brian and Amy
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