What is Cadets?

The Calvinist Cadet Corps is an independent (non-denominational) youth ministry organization whose purpose is to provide the local church with a ministry program that will enable them to effectively share Christ's love with boys from their church and community. Founded in 1952, the Corps has more than 600 clubs throughout North America. We encourage any evangelical Bible believing church to consider using our ministry programs. The organization uses the title "Calvinist" to honor the Protestant reformer, John Calvin, who devoted his life to the religious education of God's children.

Cadets at Springhill Church

Cadets meet every Wednesday evening 6:30pm - 8:00pm at Springhill Church, 9855 Walker Rd. 

One of the main purposes of Cadets is to bring the boy and the counselor together into a loving and enriching relationship with Christ while teaching him life skills. Over the years we have taught rifle marksmanship, archery, fire building, cooking, leatherwork and many other skills. Eric Wandishin, one of our counselors, has even taught Cadets how to tie flies. We are now beginning to build our wooden race cars and rockets to compete in our county wide Cadet-O-Rama which will be held at Manhattan Christian School the first Saturday in April.

So, in short, we teach your boys to shoot, blow things up (rockets) and pray, probably not in that order. We have a lot of fun each Wednesday evening and and invite your boys and their friends to join us.

Cadets have also developed their own camp this summer which allows us to learn more about cooking, hiking, sledding, and engage in other outdoor activities.  Please join us for one of our campouts!

For more information, please contact Harry Armstrong at hcranch@littleappletech.com or go to the Cadet website at www.calvinistcadets.org