Discovery Club is an after school program for community children in grades 1-6. Meeting once a week for one hour after school, the children enjoy Bible stories, songs, memory verses and refreshments. The program has special events four times a year for the parents to attend. A team of volunteers and teachers lead carefully planned activities ranging from individual tutoring in math and reading, snacks, music, computer time, games, and Bible stories. Each child is recognized as an individual.
Teachers plan specific work and activities to help each one develop needed skills.
In 1997 Judson Baptist Church of Salem, Oregon, began working with the youth of the Middle School in the intramural basketball program and have helped with grief counseling when there was an accidental shooting of one of the students. Other members have been involved with tutoring students. On Wednesday nights the combined youth and children's programs minister to nearly 65 kids. Most of the youth come from unchurched homes. They meet once a week during the school year and tutor both first and second graders.