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About AWANA at Grace Community Church:

What is AWANA? 

     AWANA is one of our nation’s fastest growing youth organizations.  It is part of AWANA Clubs International, a non-denominational program based in Chicago, IL.  AWANA Clubs International sponsors clubs in local churches, around the world in 60 countries and in 15 languages.  The purpose of the club is to reach boys and girls for Christ and train them to serve Him.  AWANA is an acronym for “Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed”, based on 2 Timothy 2:15.

Our AWANA program includes six different clubs:

Cubbies                3 years (by September 1^st) – Pre-K
Sparks                  Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd grade
                                boys & girls
Seekers                3^rd & 4^th grade girls
Challenger’s           3^rd & 4^th grade boys
Ambassador’s         5^th & 6^th grade girls
Searchers             5^th & 6^th grade boys

Each club meeting consists of:

Opening Exercises – announcements, welcome, recognize visitors, pledging to flags, AWANA key verse, AWANA song
Game Time – playing games around the AWANA game circle
Handbook Time – reciting Bible verses/passing AWANA Handbook sections
Council Time – Bible lesson
Award Time – Clubbers receive awards earned

The Clubber’s First Night of AWANA!

     If your child (ren) has never attended an AWANA club before, he/she will be given an Entrance Booklet on their first night.  This is the first step in AWANA achievement.  We hope you will help your child complete this booklet in the next three consecutive weeks.  Each segment of the booklet after which the leader signs are known as a “section”.  Clubbers earn awards for completing their sections.  Clubbers are allowed 2 “helps” per section.  Sections must be passed in their entirety in one sitting.  When the entrance booklet is completed, your child is eligible to purchase and AWANA uniform, and handbook, and ear many more awards.  There is a cost for these items.  The uniform contributes towards club unity and “oneness”, as well as providing a place to display awards.  There is no cost for any awards unless they should be lost and replacements are necessary.  Please feel free to contact your child’s leader, if you have any questions.

Club Key Verses

Cubbies:

          1 John 4:10 “God loved us and sent his son.”

Sparks:

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall no perish but have eternal life.

Seekers:

Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Challengers:

Hebrews 12:1  “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  (The “race” God calls us to is a “challenge” we all should strive to achieve.)

Ambassadors:

2 Corinthians 5:20  “We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, a though God were making His appeal through us.”

Searchers:

Psalm 139:23, 24  “Search me O God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.”

AWANA Key Verse:  2 Timothy 2:15  “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Grace Community Church AWANA Visitor Policy

The Grace Community Church AWANA Club requires that all leaders meet certain criteria including:

1.     A conversion experience – a point in time when the individual accepted Christ as Savior.

2.     A consistent and faithful walk with Christ including an effort to grow in Him through personal Bible Study, prayer, and regular church attendance.

3.     The individual should be a member of Grace Community Church or will have read, understood, agreed with, and signed Grace Community Doctrinal Statement.

4.     All leaders listening to handbook time sections are required to read AWANA leaders guide and pass leaders basic training exam.

These are basic requirements for leadership and will be strictly enforce.  There fore, it is necessary to allow only individuals who meet the above criteria to have contact with AWANA Clubbers during any time of the club meeting.  Parent or friends of clubbers are only allowed in club meeting with special permission from Pastor Andrew York.

 

 

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