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First Baptist Church to launch new program to inspire children to play
New initiative aims to get kids interested in sports, not video games at earlier age
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Banks Fowler gives his best growl as 2- and 3-year-olds from First Baptist Church day school bear crawl in the Family Life Center gymnasium off Green Street in Gainesville. The church is trying to implement a new program called Kids at Play with the aim of getting more children to play sports and socialize with their peers instead of focusing on cell phones, TV and video games.
Ginny Stump remembers spending hours and hours of her childhood playing sports with her siblings and friends. “I grew up playing sports and I loved them,” she said. Now, as co-director at First Baptist Church’s Family Life Center, Stump hopes to share her love of sports with younger generations.