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March 27, 2010

By Joe Malan, Staff Writer Enid News and Eagle The Enid News and Eagle Sat Mar 27, 2010, 10:17 PM CDT

ENID — Last August, Clay Carson began working on his goal of gathering children and young adults from different churches and bringing them together as one organization.

Nearly eight months later, the organization, K-Life, has brought together 53 children from churches around Enid.

Carson, area director for Enid K-Life, said the goal of the chapter is to help kids build relationships with other kids through Christ.

“That’s the basic heartbeat of K-Life,” he said.

K-Life isn’t just in Okla-homa. It’s in states across the country, including Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kan-sas, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas.

Enid’s chapter of K-Life has several events planned monthly.

There are club meetings on Wednesday nights for middle school-age children and Thursday nights for high school-age children. There usually are activities, such as movies or dodge ball or other games, organized at those meet.

The group has an open house at the K-Life house, 1725 S. Hudson, 5-9 p.m. every Monday.

Carson said Mondays are “hang-out” times, when club members can play video games and interact with other members.

They do service events, too.

K-Life has a program called Servolution in which the group does service projects for different members of the community, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the second Saturday of every month.

First Presbyterian Church sponsors the group.

Carson hopes the group has a big impact on the lives of children and young adults.

“We want to teach kids to be strong in the Lord despite the pressures they face daily,” he said.

Carson encourages young individuals to come to an event in order to join.

He also is looking for volunteers to help lead the chapter.

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