Our church hosts a really neat program called Upward Basketball and Cheerleading. The girls are too young to do basketball, so we signed them up for Cheerleading. They cheer for the Kindergarten and 1st grade basketball teams every Saturday. Each cheerleader is announced individually at the beginning of each game and run out onto the center of the court. Then they form a tunnel with their pom poms raised up in the air for the basketball players to run under when the players are announced. The girls perform a cheer between each period and occasionally during the game. A devotional is strategically placed in the center of each practice and the players/cheerleaders are encouraged to memorize a bible verse each week. The girls each memorized John 1:5 which says, "The light shines in darkness, but the darkness does not overpower the light". That is the first verse they have ever memorized. It is a great program and the girls look forward to going each week. Not to mention, they look pretty adorable in their uniforms!!! Today they even got to cheer for their cousin, Aliyah, while she played basketball. She scored four points. Way to go Aliyah!!!
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