Clifford is thankful for YOU. I bet you are thankful for him, too. Make your first gift to the Boys and Girls Club today and support sweet souls just like Clifford. 🎁 💌bgcvaldosta.org #givingtuesday

✨This Giving Tuesday, consider a gift to the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta.✨ Why??🎉 By giving, you become an important part of our mission at the BGC to create spaces where our young people can reach their fullest potential. Every day, hundreds of our community's youth come through our doors to find hot & healthy meals, academic enrichment, activities that promote healthy lifestyles, opportunities for workforce development, caring staff and mentors to come alongside them, and - of course - LOTS and LOTS of fun. We're all about building bright futures, and YOU have the opportunity to help pave the way for them. 🎉🤩 Donate at the link in our bio or visit www.bgcvaldosta.org.🌟💙 🌟😁💙 Want to know more about who we are? Check out our Linktree in bio!✨

Music is everywhere at the BGC 🥁🎶🎺

🤩 Conger Gas LP sponsored a FUN piece of Thanksgiving mail we sent out to all of our friends here at the BGC last week. If you'd like to join the fun, message us or visit the link in our bio to sign up and receive snail mail from us!!🦃🍂🍁

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This is what we’re here for 🤲🫶🤗

I agree with Michael ☝️🤓

Tis the season!!!🎄✨🤩 We are decking our halls this week before our kids come back and our staff are having a BLAST. We can't wait to see their faces when they step into a winter wonderland!! #makingfuturesbright #afterschoolprogram #deckingthehalls #tistheseason

Tobias has no trouble making his gratitude list. 🥰 What are you thankful for? ✍️ 💌 🤭

✨Thank you @fhbrookside for helping us mail out our fall newsletter!! We are grateful for people who love our kiddos as much as we do.🥰 If you didn't get a newsletter in the mail, visit our website and head to the "Our Latest Newsletter" page to catch a glimpse of it yourself!📰 Or, send us a message with the "Want to receive snail mail..." link in our bio to get a copy in your mailbox!

✨💙 We're still reminiscing on the generosity of @congerlpgas.🥰 We're grateful they leveraged their grand opening to support the sweet kiddos we serve and grateful for their intentionality in connecting with our students in person here in our buildings!! WHAT a blessing, @congerlpgas!

Congratulations on your new role as executive director of FCA GA Southeast, Mr. Bill! We love you! Celebrate him at his FCA open house TONIGHT, November 14th, from 4-6pm 📍2110 Jerry Jones Drive, Valdosta GA 31602

✨Ever wondered what a day in the life of a child at the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta looks like? Alongside so many incredible partners in our community, we seek to offer a space where children can be children and provide something that sparks imagination, builds character, and prepares them for the future we know they have. Join our family of givers who make what we do possible or even better, take a tour of the Club with us and meet one of the amazing kiddos we serve.😍 Visit the link in our bio for the full video.✨

When they saw the American flag at @slsausagecompany, our kiddos couldn’t resist breaking into a spontaneous pledge of allegiance. We are thankful for our veterans who make this country safe for children like these. 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙

✨🇺🇸💙 Happy Veteran's Day from the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta.💙🇺🇸✨ We are deeply grateful to the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve our country faithfully. Your sacrifices are the reason our kids look up to you as true heroes! #VeteransDay #greatfuturesstarthere #freedom

✨ After 15 years of making an incredible difference in the lives of our young people and families, join us in celebrating a new adventure for a longtime leader on our staff, Bill Holt. While we are certainly going to miss his leadership and dedication here, we know that he is the perfect person for the role of new Executive Director for the Southeast Georgia Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Please join us in congratulating Mr. Bill and wishing him well on this next chapter at FCA’s Open House!! He’d love to see you on Thursday, November 14 from 4pm-6pm at the FCA house on Jerry Jones! (2110 Jerry Jones Drive, Valdosta, GA 31602) We are so proud of Bill’s continued commitment to positively impacting youth and families in our region, and we can’t wait to see all he will accomplish. Thank you, Mr. Bill, for your service to our children here at the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta. We know will continue to see it’s fruit for years to come.💙😊

❕Our offices will remain open, however, please note that there will be no youth programming due to the school system's cancellation of transportation services.❕ Stay safe!

🗞💙 We just sent out our latest newsletter couple of weeks back!! If you didn't get one, but want see all we're doing directly in your mailbox, click the link below to fill out the form at the link in our bio and get ready for a recap of what we've been up to so far this fall semester!🍁👇✨

A little joy to fill your tank in a Monday 🥰

We are so proud of our Lake Laurie staff for braving the HANDS-ON on task of carving pumpkins! 🎃 ✨ Making memories at the Boys & Girls Club.😊💙 #fallfun #pumpkincarving #afterschoolfun #greatfuturesstarthere

👉🎃🎉 Vote for your favorite pumpkin! 👈🎃🎉 Four of our sites have been hard at work for our pumpkin decorating contest at the BGC! Now we need YOU to vote for your favorite.😍 Voting closes THIS Thursday at noon, so get your votes in, and get ready to see who wins a PIZZA PARTY for their whole site! (Place your votes in the comments and feel free to vote for more than one pumpkin!!) 💙 #pumpkindecoratingcontest #fallfun #afterschoolfun #greatfuturesstarthere

Over 40 years of service at the Boys & Girls Club and 102 vibrant years of life! Happy birthday, Ms. Coody! We love you! 🎉💗🎂

✨😊 It’s looking a lot like fall around here!!!🍂🎃💙 #boysandgirlsclub #fallisintheair #afterschool #greatfuturesstarthere

👟✨Ashley Furniture, thank you for providing local students with a brand-new pair of shoes this school year!!🤩💙 Futures are looking BRIGHT here in Valdosta and Lowndes County thanks to our incredible community!! #GreatFuturesStartHere #community #AshleyFurnitureHomeStore #afterschool

What a fun couple of days celebrating the Valdosta @congerlpgas grand opening! We loved getting to know the Conger team and seeing all of you show up to support them and the Boys and Girls Club! 🎉☀️ Don’t worry if you missed it! They are now officially open for all of your propane and propane appliance needs!🔥

🎉We’re out here again!! Come celebrate the grand opening of @congerlpgas and grab a $12 propane tank fill.🎉 For every one filled, $2 will come to the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta!💙 📍2310 Hwy 84 Valdosta, GA 31601 We can’t wait to see you!!✨

So excited to celebrate the grand opening of @congerlpgas !!🎉 Come see us for a $12 propane tank fill and $2 will come to the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta.💙 📍2310 Hwy 84 Valdosta, GA 31601 ✨ Free coffee & donuts here this morning!!

😄 Sweet smiles from the art room!!😍🎨

✨💙 It was so encouraging to have fellow BGC staff come when we needed them most after the hurricane!! Boys & Girls Clubs from across South Georgia (Boys & Girls Club of Mitchell County, Boys & Girls Clubs of Albany, Marguerite Neel Williams Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Georgia in Thomasville, and Boys & Girls Club of Moultrie-Colquitt County) spread joy, fed our staff, and poured into our kiddos for the afternoon. We are beyond thankful for their generosity and camaraderie. Grateful is an understatement!!🥰🤩🎉 #bgcfamily #greatfuturesstarthere #forthekids #volunteering #hurricanehelenerelief

🚪✨ Reopening for the children and families we serve wouldn’t have been possible after the hurricane without the support of our great community.🎉 One of our favorite visitors was the team from the Boys & Girls Club of Mitchell County! Can you believe they delivered 115 cases of water - 2,760 bottles! - for our children, staff, and families as we recovered from the hurricane??🤯💙

😋💙 @colemantalleyllp provided a hot, kid-friendly lunch for our 200 students on site today! When they learned that kids were back on site at the Boys & Girls Club, Mr. Billy and Mrs. Gabby jumped in fast to help feed our kiddos! 🍕 We are so thankful!🤩

✨Update from the Boys & Girls Club!!✨ We are back to NORMAL hours tomorrow and from here on out! • Lake Laurie site hours are 2:30pm-6pm • Waller & Reames hours are 2:30pm-6:30pm If you have any questions, reach out to us!! We are so excited to be back.🤩💙 #greatfuturesstarthere #hurricanehelene #afterschoolprogramming #forthekids

✨🎉 THANK YOU, @covingtonsvaldosta for bringing cinnamon rolls to our staff and encouraging them as they came back to serve our kids after the hurricane!! Mr. Stan even walked in and hand-delivered these delicious goodies at 7am. 💌😊💙

💪💙 None of our kids’ fun yesterday would have been possible without this crew!! Our incredible staff, alongside hardworking volunteers, and a volunteer licensed contractor were SUCH a blessing. With Gatorade, good music, and great company, we rolled up our sleeves, and worked to clear debris, clean out our pool and programming spaces, and prep them for our kiddos yesterday! It was heartwarming to see so many faces willing to come together, united by one goal: to create a safe and welcoming environment for our kids. A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who came out to lend a hand. Together, we’re not just cleaning up; we’re restoring spaces where our kiddos are safe, loved, and learning, and where their futures are made BRIGHT. 💙✨ #HurricaneCleanup #CommunityResilience #BoysAndGirlsClub #StrongerTogether

🎉🎉🎉 After the destruction of Hurricane Helene, we are OPEN!! We know the children we serve need a safe place to learn and grow, especially after a hurricane, and a place where they could have fun, get all of their energy out with their friends, cool off with power and AC, and eat hot and healthy meals. So this morning, we welcomed our kiddos back with hi-fives, music, and smiles!! 😊 We’ve spent all day having a blast in the pool, eating great food thanks to @secondharvestsga and friends of the Club, and having loads and loads of fun with their friends and our staff!! We couldn’t do it without our team here at the BGC and YOU - our friends who support what we do!! ✨💙 Want to give to help support the cost of hurricane snacks, staffing, and joy for these precious kiddos? Give today at bgcvaldosta.org 💌 #forthekids #greatfuturesstarthere #fridayfun

🙌🎉😊 Attention REGISTERED Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta members & parents: We are opening this Friday!! Our Waller & Reames buildings downtown will be OPEN for registered members (including Lake Laurie students) on Friday, October 4th, from 7:30am to 5pm. Please *Note, that this is ONLY for already registered members.* - Drop off will be from 7:30am to 9am. Lake Laurie students should be dropped off at the front of the David S. Waller unit, Waller students should be dropped off at the back parking lot of the David S. Waller unit, and Reames Teen Center students should be dropped off at the teen center.✨ - Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner thanks to @secondharvestsga and friends of the Club!), air conditioning, swimming, and a lot of love will be provided!💙 - There will be no transportation on Friday, as schools are still closed.🚌 - Please have your children bring a swimsuit and towel!💦 We are SO excited to be open for our kiddos, and can't wait to see you on Friday!😍 If you have any questions, please DM us or email one of our site supervisors for more information.

💙😊 Happy to be giving our @ga_power crews a place to sleep at our Lake Laurie unit after long shifts. Praying for peace and rest as they recharge and get back at it! 💤🔋🎉

👉 We will be closed this Thursday and Friday due to Hurricane Helene and the saftey of our children, parents, and staff! For information regarding resources, shelter, and important storm updates, follow EMA Lowndes. Stay safe!! 💙🌧❕ #emalowndescountyga

Wait for the joy at the end 🤩

🤩📚✏️Certified teachers come to our Boys & Girls Club almost every day after school to continue helping students learn and grow. After a full day of work in the school system, they come to help our sweet students some more - refreshing them on what they were taught last year and getting them ahead with what they’ll learn this year!! We are so grateful!! If you know a teacher, give them a shoutout below!💙🎉 #TeacherTime #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #MakingFuturesBright

🎉❤️ Let's go, Blazers, let's go!! We're so thankful for the @vsuladyblazers here at the BGC!! Our Lake Laurie kiddos were in for a treat this past Friday and had a blast hanging out with these incredible athletes!🎨🏀✨

😄✨The Boys & Girls Club...where best friends are made.🫶💙 Happy Friday!!🥳

😄🩺🛠🧬📚 We're celebrating Workforce Development Month this September! Whether it's facilitating our annual Academy for Success program and equipping our teens in how to get a job and keep a job, traveling on field trips to colleges like Wiregrass to learn about different career opportunities, or championing our students as they "graduate" from the Boys & Girls Club and enter their first year of college, we're all about making sure our students are prepared as they step out into their next season of life from the Boys & Girls Club! 🎉🎬🎼💈📈 #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #WorkforceDevelopmentMonth #MakingFuturesBright #GreatFuturesStartHere

🇺🇸 💙 Never forget. Reflecting on the strength and resilience that emerged from the darkness of September 11th. Today, here at the Boys & Girls Club, we honor the lives lost and the heroes who showed extraordinary courage. We're thankful for those who laid their lives down for our nation that day and continue to provide freedom and a future for our children and communities. We will never forget. 🤍 #neverforget #911Anniversary

🖌🎨 Painting with our pals!!😊🎉 We love seeing our kiddos get creative. 🤩 #painting #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #afterschoolprogram #GreatFuturesStartHere #mondays

😊📚 Happy Friday and Happy National Read a Book Day!! 📖 We LOVE reading here at the BGC...and welcome guest readers to come and read a story or two to our sweet kiddos, too!!✨ If you're interested in coming and reading with some of our students here at the Boys & Girls Club, DM us, and let's chat! 💙😍 #greatfuturesstarthere #readingfun #afterschool #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta

🤩✨ This WOULD be a #throwbackthursday to summer in the pool... but we're jumping in this fall semester, too!! Mr. Bill and our lifeguard team have been hosting Power Hour pool parties and kayaking lessons this month and we've had a BLAST!! 😎💦 #afterschool #greatfuturesstarthere #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #swimming #kayaking

Cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you 🫶

🎉We made the "Pinkadilly News"!🩷 Thank you, SGMC Auxiliary for sponsoring 9 children this summer!☀💦🌴We are proud to be featured in your newsletter!😊📰

😊💙 Happy Labor Day! Our Boys & Girls Club would not exist without the amazing staff and volunteers who show up for our children, their families, and this community. We’re grateful!! 🤩🎉 #makingfuturesbright #greatfuturesstarthere #afterschool #laborday #community #valdostaga

☀️🌴💦 #ThrowbackThursday to our Steel's Summer Splash!! Our friends at Steel's Jewelry helped us celebrate the end of summer with SOOOO much fun - water slides, games, a cook-out, and more! Name a better summer celebration combo.😉🎉😄

💦🤩 Thanks to the @mpfoundation, as of this summer we have over 70 NEW highly-trained certified swimmers in our midst!! These students PASSED their swim test and received their IM Swim Awards after learning to jump in, go underwater, kick, and move their arms through the water (+ so much more!) But they couldn't do so without the most incredible swim instructors and lifeguards to help teach them.😉 We are so proud of these students and so grateful for those who came alongside them!💙 #letsgoswimming #certifiedswimmers #boysandgirlsclub #summerfun #GreatFuturesStartHere

🤩🤩 We loved seeing you all at the Business Expo on Friday!! Connecting with old friends and seeing new faces was a HIGHLIGHT of our night. 💙🎉 We’d love to see you again!😊 Stop by and join us for a tour, say hello to some of our sweet kiddos, and see what we’re all about!😄📍

👉 A fun recap of our adventure to Buffalo Wild Wings.🤩😄✨ We are thankful for you, B-Dubs!! @bwwings

🌟✏️📓#ThrowbackThursday to the first day of the fall semester and some excited staff ready to see our teens!!😁🥳💙 #ReamesTeenCenter #GreatFuturesStartHere #afterschoolprogram #MakingFuturesBright #fallsemester

🎉🥳Buffalo Wild Wings, what a TREAT!! We are so thankful for your generosity and your investment in our children here at the Boys & Girls Club. We love you guys!!✨💙 #buffalowildwings #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #makingfuturesbright #greatfuturesstarthere #valdostaga #afterschoolprogram

✨ Hey, hey!! The school year is in full swing in our community...and this semester at the BGC is, too! Did you know YOU can make this the best semester for our sweet kiddos at the Boys & Girls Club? Our teachers here at the Club are rockstars - they spend all day teaching students at their respective schools and then come HERE to us and spend their afternoon continuing to pour into students. We are grateful for them, and want to bless them and their classrooms! If you'd like to pick out some goodies for our incredible team here at the BGC, visit the link in our bio and purchase some supplies from our Amazon wishlist!! 💙

✨🥳🎉 Today is a special one for the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta... Help us wish our VP of Operations, Bill Holt, a happy happy birthday!! We are grateful, thankful, and blessed but those are NOT enough words to describe how we feel about having Mr. Bill on our team. He is an encourager and a valuable part of our BGC family. We love you, Mr. Bill!!💙

This school year, we are READY!!💙✏📎📚🖍 Thanks to the generosity of @advancedautotransfers, we are able to provide our kiddos with some much-needed school supplies for this year!✨ Stay tuned for photos of our kids receiving these much needed goodies!! Partnering with a community that loves our kids as much as we do is one of our greatest blessings!!! 😍

🤩😮 Have you heard??? You can give monthly to the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta! If you've never partnered with us before, and want to make a big impact on a child in a small way, consider a monthly gift. Even $1 a month does a lot!! Or, if you usually give a one-time gift, consider breaking it up into a recurring monthly gift, and extend your impact from one gift to several! We are so grateful for this community and your commitment to our kiddos.💙 Visit our website at the link in our bio or at bgcvaldosta.org/monthlygiving to start making a mini gift, with a mighty impact today.

Workout Wednesday with Kaden!!!! Let’s get like Kaden!!!! 💪 tag your workout buddy below👇⚡️

👉☁️✨ A word for you from our sweet Kyler!! Our goal at the BGC is to enable ALL of our kids to shoot for the stars, chase their dreams, and reach their fullest potential. 🌟😊💙 #GreatFuturesStartHere #MakingFuturesBright #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta

Who misses your assembly Fridays?

🌴☀️ Summer was a blast and we're sad to see it go...but we are ecstatic for this school year. We have SO MUCH fun planned at the Boys & Girls Club this year!! Keep up with us here and on Facebook for all the fun we have planned.😎✨🤩

✨🎉 Happy Friday Eve from some of our 5th graders!🥰

😍 We're back!! And more ready than ever to welcome our students from school to the Boys & Girls Club this afternoon.😊 🌨Hurricane Debby may have meant a few days off from school and time at the Boys & Girls Club, but we're ready and SOOO excited to see our sweet kiddos faces!!🤩 We're praying for continued safety and quick recovery for everyone affected by the storm.💙

We can’t be the only ones excited our kids are back!😌🤭🥳🩵

✨🌿🌊🚣‍♂️ As part of our Outdoor Adventure Program this month, we took a group of BGC kids to kayak the Wacissa River and swim in Blue Springs. They had a blast! We love the opportunity to take children to see and do things for the first time, and on this trip, we saw and experienced lots - including alligators, turtles, and multiple species of fish and fowl. 🐦🐢🐊🐟 Thank you to Miller Hardware Company Downtown, O'Steen Subaru of Valdosta, and Greater Valdosta United Way - our founding Outdoor Adventure Club sponsors and to those who made it possible this summer - VSU CORE Outdoors and Happy Hippy Outfitters! We're grateful for your partnership in creating incredible experiences for our children and teens. 💙🤩

💙😄 We're all about providing our kiddos a safe place to learn and grow...old...at the BGC!🤫😝💯 #kyrieis100 #summer2024 #greatfuturesstarthere #valdostaga #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta

💙💪 The GEM - Girls Empowering Movement (@gem_georgia) promotes healthy bodies and healthy minds among young girls all across the nation...and we are blessed to be a part! Ms. Keyasia meets with our teen girls to promote just that - helping them maintain their mental, physical and emotional health through all kinds of activities from volleyball to fun workouts and self-care days!! They've had a blast having fun while getting their bodies moving. 🥳👟✨ Want to be a part of empowering our young people and helping build healthy lifestyles? Reach out to us! #GreatFuturesStartHere #summer2024 #summeratthebgc #valdostaga #healthylifestyles #GirlsEmpowermentMovement

🥰✨ We are so thankful to SGMC Auxiliary for their donation that sponsored NINE KIDDOS for the entire summer! What a blessing that our local South Georgia Medical Center (@sgmccareers) invests back into our children and community.💙🤝

Wisdom from Kyrie, age 6 💭🦉📚 🩵

It is getting real! We adventured to Columbus, GA this weekend for our Youth of the Year to attend her college orientation at @columbusstate ! Takeriyona wants to be a counselor for teens, and she can’t wait to start her academic career at the collegiate level! We are so proud of you, Takeriyona! 🥹💙🎉

📚🤝 Learning is fun...but learning with our friends is even better!! During the school year AND summer, we work on IXL, our online learning platform, which helps us catch up and get ahead in our academics! 💪 A big thank you to @bgcgeorgia for helping us secure a grant for this programming to help our kiddos catch up!😊✨ #GreatFuturesStartHere #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #boysandgirlsclubsofamerica

🌿✨🌧 We didn't let a little rain stop us from enjoying Chehaw Park and Zoo! We had a BLAST playing on their awesome playground and seeing all the animals. The alligators were a fan fave!!🐊😁 Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to follow along on our summer adventures! Link in bio.:)

👉🤩 Did you know?? Our kids don’t just learn academics during the school year at the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta... ...they learn during the summer, too!!😁✏️📚✨ #summer2024 #learning #greatfuturesstarthere #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta

☀😊😄 Bright, sunny smiles are headed your way! We LOOVVEEE pool days at the BGC.🤩 This summer, we're learning to swim and kayak and get all our energy out in the best way.💦👍 We couldn't do it without our incredible staff and lifeguards!!🛟😍 #summerfun #summer2024 #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #greatfuturesstarthere #bigsmiles

🤩🎨 Arts & crafts have been a hit this summer!! 🤩🎨 It was a Perry the Platypus kind of day 😁... What is YOUR favorite thing to draw? #lakelaurie #Summer2024 #SummerFun #artwork #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #GreatFuturesStartHere

🌟Bright buildings so we can build even brighter futures!!🤩 @cleanfreakssoftwash has joined the family to help make Boys & Girls Club spaces joyful and inviting for the children and families we serve. Their generous gift is making futures bright - literally!! What an incredible blessing it is to have Justin and his team partner with us to care for kids in our community. Our Lake Laurie buildings are GLEAMING! ...And we have no more trees in our gutters.😅🎉🌿

💙The votes are in… SWIMMING is a crowd favorite of summer at the BGC.🏊‍♂️🤿🏊‍♀️ Thanks to our @mpfoundation grant, it’s easy to pick our favorite part about summer! Swim lessons and pool days are the best days at the Boys & Girls Club at both our Lowndes and Brooks county pools! You rock @m_phelps00!!! 🪨⭐️

Did you know?…👉🏼 • Our kids don’t just stay at the Boys & Girls Club campus during the summer...we go on so many field trips!! 🚌📍 • We’ve already been to places like the zoo, aquarium, Savannah, GA, the VSU STEAM Center and VSU Recreation Center...🧪🔭🫧📚⚽️ • ...and we’re looking forward to going on so many more!! Want to help sponsor our kids to go on a field trip? Let us know!💬

😄🌟Boys & Girls Club x VSU STEAM Center = loads of fun!! We're so thankful for Dr. Gerber and his team for how they're pouring into our kids this summer!🤩🧬🦠🧪🎨 #greatfuturesstarthere #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #STEAM #summer2024 #summerfun

🤩🖌✨ We're feeling arts-and-craftsy this Monday!! Self-portraits and clay crafts are a HIT with these sweet girls!!🎨😄💙 #summerfun #summer2024 #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #artsandcrafts #greatfuturesstarthere

💙❤️🤍 Happy Independence Day from the BGC!! 🇺🇸🔔🎉✨🧨🎇 #letfreedomring #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #summer2024 #greatfuturesstarthere

🚣💦☀ Did you know.... this summer our kids have the opportunity to learn to KAYAK thanks to our friends at @osteensubaru, @millerhardwareco, and @greatervaldostaunitedway!! ⛵️🛶🛟 After passing their final swim test, they learn first the safety rules of kayaking and practice on the ground, then move to practice in the pool, then practice in still water, and finally in moving water!!!🤩 #WhoWeAreWednesday #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #GreatFuturesStartHere #summer2024

💦☀️😋 Pool time and popsicles!! Name a better summer combo.😄🤩💙 #summer2024 #greatfuturesstarthere #summerfun #havingablast #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta

☀️🌼💙 Fantastic...awesome...incredible... there aren't enough words to describe how much FUN we've had this summer at the BGC so far!! It's been full of field trips and excursions, adventures at the VSU STEAM Center and Recreation Center, swimming & kayaking in our pool with our lifeguards, arts & crafts, reading, learning with certified teachers in our buildings, and so much more. We can't wait to see what July has in store!!✨😊

🎉🎉 We're celebrating BIG because... today is our CEO's birthday!! If you know Mrs. Kristin Hanna, you know we're blessed beyond measure to have her leading the way at the BGC Valdosta. Help us wish her a happy birthday!!💙😊🥳

🎉🤩💙 We just love these sweet smiles!!!😄🤩😊 #funfriday #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #summer2024 #GreatFuturesStartHere

📚✏️🍎 Shout out to our incredible teachers at the Boys & Girls Club!! This summer we have 20 certified teachers across all of our sites who are here EVERY DAY showing up for our students. They're helping our kids review what they learned last year, getting them ahead for what they’ll learn in the next, and helping them reach their fullest potentials! We are oh, so thankful for these individuals and their impact on our kiddos.✨💙 #teacherappreciation #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #GreatFuturesStartHere #summer2024

✨ We enjoyed showing the FDIC, Fed, OCC, and local bankers our facilities and discussing how we can all work together to build a stronger community!💙💪🏼 #cityofvaldosta #greatfuturesstarthere #community

💙✨😊#throwbackthursday to the most fun week at The Porch for Vacation Bible School!! Our sweet second graders experienced a week full of fun, laughter, and love as they learned what friendship with Jesus is all about from middle schoolers and staff on The Porch's team. Bible stories, the MOST fun games, arts & crafts, water day, and more made our kiddos come back chatting nonstop about all the fun they had.😄 Thank you, @theporchcommunitychurch for pouring into our kiddos and for an incredible VBS week!!☀🌴🤩💦

💦🌴☀️ DID YOU KNOW?? • At the Boys & Girls Club, we focus on 3 pillars: academic enrichment, healthy lifestyles, and character development. • EVERY DAY our kids engage in activities that promote each one of these pillars to help them reach their fullest potentials & brightest futures. Whether that's getting their bodies moving through swim lessons and a fun game of flag football, investing in academics with daily teacher time, or learning about what it means to be a good citizen through workforce development programs, we LOVE to see futures being made BRIGHT here at the BGC.☀️🌴💦 #whowearewednesday #summer2024 #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #greatfuturesstarthere

✨💙 @osteensubaru, THANK YOU!! We owe a HUGE thank you to this incredible team and all who support them.✨💙 During the 2023 Subaru Share the Love event, for every car bought at the end of 2023 a portion of the proceeds went to nonprofits in our community.🚙 This means we also owe a huge thank you to our Valdosta community, too!! Because of you, the kids in our community who need us most find a safe place to learn and grow EVERY DAY after school and during the summer here at the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta. YOU are a part of making this happen, and we are incredibly grateful for your generosity. We are so thankful for a community that wraps its arms around our mission at the Boys & Girls Club. Great futures start here.😊🤩

💦☀️🏊‍♂️ It's National Swim a Lap Day, so guess what we're doing??? The BEST way to beat this summer heat!!🌴✨💙 #swimming #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #summer2024 #summerfun #greatfuturesstarthere

🎉🏅Please help us congratulate our Lake Laurie...🥁🤩🤩 ...Campers of the Week!! Left to right (photo 1): Greer (4&5B), Josiah (K&1), Camille (2&3G), Brook (4&5G), and Kylar (not pictured; 2&3B)

The first week of summer!!!✔️🌴☀️💙 When we say we had a BLAST we mean it!! What a perfect week. We cannot wait to see what kind of summer adventures our BGC has for us next. 💦😍😁 Stay tuned for all the fun!!! #summer2024 #GreatFuturesStartHere #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #LetsGooo

🤩👍Football and foursquare!! 🏈🔴 #funfriday #greatfuturesstarthere #boysandgirlsclubofvaldosta #summerfun #summer2024

👉👉 We've had so much fun at the @vsusteamcenter these past couple of weeks!! We learned about the Amazon rainforest and all the animals we find there, played games with our friends & counselors, and worked on some really cool hands-on science experiments (like making snow!)!🌴🦜❄️🌨😄✨ We can't wait for more!!

🙂😍 Reading is a big part of summer camp 2024 at our Clubs!! Our 2&3 grade girls and 4&5 grade girls reading groups at Lake Laurie are LOVING IT!:)📚✨💙