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TORCH Speech and Debate Club

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TORCH is a vibrant group of like-minded homeschool families who value effective communication, critical thinking, and character development. We work together as a team to give students the tools, honest feedback, and experience necessary to help them become great communicators. Speech Club meets Thursdays from 1:30pm - 3:00pm and Debate Club gathers Thursdays 3:00 pm - 4:30pm at Capital Baptist Church on Gallows Rd in Annandale. We communicate using Band, so students and parents are asked to activate Band upon joining TORCH. We have fun activities, even in the summer, for those who are here.

 

Why Stoa?

Stoa is a national high school and junior high Speech and Debate organization serving the needs of privately-educated, Christian homeschooling families. Stoa trains and supports us to develop students into confident, articulate leaders who change their culture through the marketplace of ideas. Our students become like family, as they encourage one another, accept criticism, and entertain both victory and defeat with grace. Our graduates have become leaders at every level of work, community, and ministry. See stoausa.org for more information.

What's Expected?

Leadership roles for students and parents bring you into the action. Junior Speech and speech-time childcare teach and tend to all tiers of your growing family. We seek to multiply your efforts, "Together On the Road for Christ's Honor." We amplify learning and fellowship with games, workshops, socials, skits, and movie nights. Members join our club, and the national club stoausa.org, both of which offer a bevy of resources.

This is not a drop-off program, but an interactive club. Parents and students attend weekly, and we all grow in friendship. Parents help in various ways in which they're comfortable, especially in giving feedback in breakout rooms. We all support tournaments our group hosts, once or twice a year, with jobs suitable for all kinds of personalities. We like to be flexible. At tournaments, students and parents network and bond with fun and talented individuals from all over the country!
 

 

You can join just Speech, just Debate, or both. We will do our best to bless your entire family.
 
Senior Speech or Debate students must be age 12 or up by Oct 1 of the relevant school year.  
Junior Speech is for ages 7-11 by Oct 1. Priority is generally given to siblings of senior speech students. We can sometimes make an exception.
 
As the world forgets about Christ and His love, we seek to edify and equip our precious children to bring the world back to its senses and be a light to the broken-hearted.
 
 

You are wanted. You are welcome. Not for what you do, but for who you are. We will give you opportunities to become more fully you, in the image of your Creator.

We are bold, and we are shy. Our income brackets vary. We are from many states, and some from overseas. Military, State Department, and embassy families will find a home here. We are national-caliber, and we are getting over the jitters. We are from all walks of life.

We cheer for one another. We treasure the time we have together.

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