Sparks Network exists to help rally community support, sponsorship, and long-term investment behind Sparks Lake Activity Center — a renewed place for youth, families, events, recreation, and community life in East Texas.
This is about more than restoring a property. It is about helping restore purpose, create opportunity, and move forward together with a vision the whole community can stand behind.
Supporting Sparks Lake Activity Center means supporting more than renovations. It means investing in a place where history, neighborhood meaning, and future potential come together.
This is a place that can serve youth programs, family events, community recreation, and long-term local growth. Every contribution helps move the project from vision to visible progress.
Support the VisionCommunity support helps move SLAC from concept to visible progress — creating a space that can serve youth, families, events, and the wider community for years to come.
Helping improve the building, grounds, access, safety, and spaces needed for meaningful community use.
Supporting programming and space that encourage recreation, movement, and positive community connection.
Helping create a place where families, neighbors, and visitors can gather for memorable local experiences.
Helping build something with lasting value — one that becomes part of the future of this area.
The story of SLAC is about more than the past. It is about what a community chooses to restore, remember, and build forward. This property carries deep meaning, and the future being built here is meant to reflect service, activity, connection, and opportunity.
Sparks Network exists to help gather support around that future — bringing together donors, sponsors, partners, and local advocates who want to help create something positive and lasting.
“Respect the past. Serve the present. Build something that lasts.”
Families, businesses, organizations, and community-minded partners can help move this vision forward through sponsorship, naming opportunities, and direct support tied to visible impact.
Sparks Network is here to help gather the sponsorships, partnerships, and community support needed to move Sparks Lake Activity Center forward. Every gift, every sponsor, and every act of support helps build something with lasting local value.
Sparks Network is about building something meaningful for Nacogdoches and East Texas—something rooted in legacy, strengthened by work ethic, and focused on what the next generation can inherit.
Sparks Lake Activity Center is located just across the lake from Sparks Lake Resort, giving visitors a unique opportunity to stay nearby while exploring the property, attending events, or seeing the progress firsthand.
Whether you're visiting as a supporter, sponsor, or community member, you can experience both the activity center and the surrounding area together.
Sparks Lake Activity Center is being shaped as more than a single-use venue. The vision includes a basketball and activity space designed to support youth programs, practices, games, family events, community gatherings, and a wider sense of connection for East Texas families.
Support for SLAC helps create a place where children can be active, families can gather, and the community can invest in something positive and lasting.
The court vision supports practices, games, youth programs, and active community use — helping create a stronger place for healthy activity and connection.
A place for practices, games, and active programming that keeps families engaged.
A space designed to support more than one purpose, serving the wider public.
A project where sponsors and supporters can see their investment helping shape something real.
A meaningful space for the next generation of children and families in East Texas.
