From 9AM to NOON, on Saturday, April 30th, S.W.A.T. will serve our city by providing basic landscaping at two locations:

• Bi-Centennial Park’s Liberty Garden
• Carroll High School on White Chapel Blvd.

Our goal for this workday is to provide basic landscaping improvements such as weeding and mulching flower beds, minor tree and brush trimming, some re-planting, etc.  If you have your own shovels, rakes, trowels, wheel barrows, and gloves, please bring them along with you!

At NOON, we will meet at Bi-Centennial Park for lunch, provided by Southlake Baptist Church.
For more information about the S.W.A.T. workday on the 30th, please contact Zack Polyak at zack@southlakeswat.org or 682.556.3624.

Southlake’s very own grassroots effort S.W.A.T. (Southlake Working As A Team) was featured in the Southlake Times as the #2 story of 2010. We are very happy that this new opportunity for teamwork and community is starting to make a difference in Southlake for benefit of our city and it’s residents. Read the article.

Happy New Year!

Visit Star Local News to read about our latest project with S.W.A.T.

On Saturday, October 30, S.W.A.T. – a grassroots movement of Southlake churches, businesses, organizations, and residents- will host its third community workday in Southlake. Since our August effort at the Bob Jones Nature Center and Preserve, many additional residents have expressed interest in helping with future events.  On October 30, from 9AM to noon, the organization will strike again at six Southlake locations!

• Carroll Sr. High School: 1501 W. Southlake Blvd.
• Johnson Elementary School: 1301 N. Carroll Ave.
• Rockenbaugh Elementary School: 301 Byron Nelson Pkwy.
• Durham Elementary School: 801 Shady Oaks
• Bicentennial Park: 400 N. White Chapel Blvd.
• Southlake Department of Public Safety West: 2100 W. Southlake Blvd.

Our goal for each site is to provide basic landscaping improvements. More specifics will be available as the date approaches. This is a large undertaking, and we need many Southlake businesses, churches, organizations, and residents to come out and make this a special day for our City. Please mark your calendar for Saturday, October 30 from 9AM to noon, sign up to work at a specific location online, and meet us there! If you know someone who might be interested in helping at this event, please click the forward to a friend link below.

For more information about S.W.A.T visit southlakeswat.org, email Zack Polyak at zack@southlakeswat.org, or call 817.912.1234.

S.W.A.T. is a ministry of Southlake Baptist Church

SWAT’s latest project at Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve has been featured in a number of local news outlets.

Read the articles: Our Great City |  Star Local News |  Southlake Journal

On Saturday, August 28, nearly 120 volunteers descended on Bob Jones Nature Center and Preserve. Volunteers from the City Council & Staff, Mayor John Terrell and family, a Boy Scout troop, Tarrant County Master Gardeners, Cross Timbers Equestrians, Steele Stump Removal, Cliff’s Tree Trimming, Gateway Church, Grace Community Church, Southlake Baptist Church, and many residents from Southlake turned out to help spruce up the Nature Center.

(Pictured above: Southlake Baptist Pastor, Clayton Reed & Southlake City Councilwoman, Dr. Carolyn Morris)

For about 3 hours, the Nature Center was a hive of activity as volunteers weeded flower beds, put down new mulch, trimmed trees, ground stumps, repaired bird feeders, and cleared brush and leaves from nature trails. The Nature Center provided crafts and activities for small children. Chick-fil-A of Southlake graciously donated lunch to all volunteers.

(Pictured above, left to right: Southlake Baptist Care Pastor, Zack Polyak, Southlake City Councilman, Brandon Bledsoe, Southlake Mayor, John Terrell and a volunteer from Bob Jones Nature Center)

S.W.A.T. (Southlake Working As A Team) is a community initiative founded by Southlake Baptist Church in an effort to bring together Southlake churches, businesses, organizations and residents to make Southlake a better place.

When asked about why S.W.A.T was formed, Southlake Baptist Pastor, Clay Reed had this to say:

“Our goal at Southlake Baptist Church was to create an organization like Southlake S.W.A.T. that capitalizes on the enormous resources of different constituencies in Southlake that typically don’t work together and create a sense of community and team work for the betterment of the City.”

(Pictured above: Southlake Baptist attender Aaron Sheets)

See photos of the project here

One of our goals for Southlake Baptist Church is to “seek the peace” of our City.  To that end, our church has formed a community initiative called S.W.A.T. (Southlake Working As A Team).  S.W.A.T. is a grassroots movement of Southlake churches, businesses, organizations and residents who are partnering together to make Southlake a better place.

On Saturday, August 28th, from 9AM until NOON, S.W.A.T. will host a community workday at Bob Jones Nature Center and Preserve in the north part of Southlake.  The Nature Center and Preserve is a City of Southlake park and non-profit organization that does much for the children in our town and surrounding communities.

Volunteers from the City Council & Staff, Boy/Girl/Cub Scouts, Tarrant County Master Gardeners, Cross Timbers Equestrians, Gateway Church, Grace Community Church, Southlake Baptist Church, and others will join with S.W.A.T. as we tidy up the landscaping around the Nature Center and Preserve during a time of budgetary cutbacks.  
There are opportunities for everyone to get involved.  We need volunteers to:

• Weed flowerbeds
• Put down new mulch
• Pick up trash
• Clean nature trails
• Oversee special projects
• Pick up tree trimmings

There will also be special jobs and crafts provided by the Nature Center for small children.

The Nature Center and Preserve will have plenty of bottled water and snacks for everyone, and Chick-fil-A at Southlake is graciously providing lunch for all volunteers at the event.

You will need to bring some of the following:

• Work gloves
• Trowels
• Clippers and loppers
• Wheel barrows
• Gardening hoes, shovels, rakes, etc.
• Please make sure to mark all of your equipment.

We need as many volunteers from Southlake Baptist to be at the event as possible.  I will announce more about the 28th on Sunday and send out an evite to all of our church members and regular attendees.  If you have any questions or need additional volunteer information, please contact me directly at 682.556.3624 or at zack@southlakeswat.org.

Blessings,

Zack Polyak

S.W.A.T. is a ministry of Southlake Baptist Church