We are only 2 days away from revealing the country that Awana Canada clubs will be focusing their fundraising efforts on for the year! This country is in huge need of our support. Jon and the team just returned from visiting and were struck with the hopelessness of the communities they visited. Yet their are Awana leaders in churches throughout the country and they are ready to train more! Their clubs are fun and full of life while outside of their doors the neighborhoods are in a state of despair. We get to be a part of something exciting Canada! Stay tuned for our official project launch on Wednesday!
Monday, 5 October 2015
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
It's Awana Club Registration Time
What is your church doing to let your neighbourhood know that you are running clubs this year?
Awana clubs are a great opportunity for the kids who attend your church to develop their faith and knowledge of the Bible, but clubs are also an incredible opportunity to reach our neighbours and introduce them to love of Christ.
Encourage the parents and kids in your club to be bold in inviting their friends to club this year.
We hear stories every day about people who met Jesus for the first time because their friend invited them to an Awana Club as a child.
Imagine changing the trajectory of someones life, and even their family's lives because of the good news they will receive at club.
Pray about who you will invite, and challenge yourself and your Awana leadership team to make this the biggest year ever at your Awana Club.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Teachable Moments that Transform
At the recent Transform Conference in Abbotsford, BC, Jon Imbeau (Director of Awana Canada) spoke during a breakout session about how to use everyday moments as a chance to teach your kids something. The conference focused on bringing faith into your home and Transforming the lives of your kids by transforming your own faith and life and how you bring God into your home.
For those of you who couldn't make it, here's a tidbit from Jon's breakout session.
Teachable Moments
As parents, some of our best spiritual teaching experiences with our kids come in unplanned, everyday moments. We need to learn to recognize those vital opportunities and know what to do with them. This means developing a knack for recognizing God’s work in our kids’ lives!
Here are 3 principles for creating everyday, natural discipleship in your home:
- It starts with being READY for the moment. What are you doing to fill up your basket so there is something to give when the moment arrives? This means your own Bible study and prayer life need to be a priority.
- Start to build a knack for recognizing teachable moments so that they don't slip away. This means practice, practice, practice! Look for potential moments and seize opportunities!
- The best way to reinforce these moments and the teaching you hope to instill in your children's hearts is to LIVE IT OUT in your own life and character.
Awana has some great resources to help you as you work to bring faith into the home.
- Raising a Modern-Day Joseph
- How to Raise a Modern-Day Joseph
- Awana at Home
- God's Grand Vision for the Home
- and so much more!
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Praise from Cuba
Abner Gonzalez, the Awana missionary in Cuba, shares an update of praise for their latest successful leadership event:
We had a successful SP event!! The leaders returned to their churches equipped, motivated and joyful.
Thank you so much for you and your prayers. We felt supported all the time. Mainly because the SP event was a big challenge.
It rained all day, each of the event days. Can you imagine? We had floods in the area and lots of mud. Only 14 churches (of the 17 that we expected) arrived to the event. Because of the torrential rain, we had to use the car (read about the new car Awana Canada bought for Abner!) to carry the leaders to the dining area (600 meters of the conferences area) 7 leaders in every travel.
The last day we took a couple of leaders to their town, the roads were inundated, but thanks to God the car went through the water without problems. Praise the Lord!
We saw the God hand over us, all the time.
We placed the follow up event to the first week of April. The leaders are anxious to return.
Tomorrow we will begin the SP event of Havana area, thanks to God, today in the morning we got the mattresses. We were concerned because we did not have conditions in order that leaders stay overnight. Now we solved this matter.
Please continue to pray for Abner and the Awana leaders in Cuba as they seek to spread God's Word to the country!
Monday, 25 November 2013
Christmas with Awana
Awana is not just about clubs and memory verses. We're also passionate about discipling leaders, encouraging Gospel-centered families, and growing personal faith. This Christmas consider investing into the spiritual lives of your family and friends with gifts that will help them to grow! Awana offers some amazing resources for all ages and all stages of the Christian walk. Take a minute to browse some of our suggested gift items and get a jump on that Christmas shopping!
Sparky Storybook Series (Ages 4-8)
For Teens
For Parents
Pastors and Leaders
The Return of a Mighty Church
For kids:
Sparky Storybook Series (Ages 4-8)- These charming, colourful children's books teach an important lesson with each story
- Each book includes memorable Biblical messages, parent-child activities, and discussion questions
- Hardcover
- Regular price: $8.50 each
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
25% off!!
until December 13, 2013
Awana Praise CD's (various ages)
- Great, fun worship songs that kids love to sing!
- $8.50 each
- Sing it, Tell it, Whisper it, Yell it!
- Puggles Praise
- Great is the Lord
- Living in God's House
- Living Proof
- Sing the Awana Way!
Missionary Stories (Ages 9-12)
- These exciting books teach kids what it means to be a missionary
- $8.95 each
- Mik-Shrok: Adventures of an Arctic Missionary (133 pages)
- Lottie Moon: Giving her all for China (208 pages)
For Teens
- An easy-to-read systematic theology book
- $11.95
For Parents
- A modern day parable that teaches biblical solutions for helping parents mentor their children and also grow their parent/child relationship
- Also includes study questions for discussion
- $12.00
- Foundational principles based on Scripture that help parents and leaders teach children about the Christian faith
- $19.00
- An essential guide for parents in raising a generation that can follow Christ through all life's circumstances
- $12.50
Pastors and Leaders
- An uplifting read for all pastors and leaders who want their church body to be a powerful force for spreading the gospel
- $9.99
- A great book for teacher to help them become a rock solid teacher by patterning their teaching style after the greatest teacher of all!
- $16.50
Or browse the whole store for more great selection!
Friday, 22 November 2013
Missionaries in Montreal
From Jon Imbeau, Director of Awana Canada:
Every two years the staff from Awana Canada meets somewhere
in Canada, in order to enjoy some good teaching and fellowship together. This
year our staff met in Montréal. Our goal was to spend time getting to know the
new members of our team. We have five new couples on the team since our staff
met two years ago in Vancouver! We are excited about this growth and the work God is doing through us. In Montréal our team learned more about
developing partners in the ministry from an expert by the name of George
Loring. George taught us about why it is so important to communicate the good
things that are happening to those who are invested in our ministry.
As we toured Montréal we experienced the culture and learned
about the significant need for Awana in this province. Less than 1% of 6.2 million French
speaking Canadians believe in Jesus. The need to reach the young generation is
so evident. All of us feel that the work being done in Québec is exciting. We
are praying for Lise Lalonde as she reaches this people group.
Our team enjoyed wonderful meals and fellowship together. We
had a tour of an authentic sugar shack where we heard live Francophone music and
some of us even played the spoons.
Jeremy Petty came from Chicago to teach us
more about youth ministry. This was a powerful workshop and very informative.
Jeremy has devised a new strategy for training youth workers. We are praying
for a greater development of youth work here in Canada.
Dave Kinsey and Art Quest taught us about the new training
method called hitting the mark. Both men experienced this training firsthand in
the US this year. Our team learned a lot and will incorporate some of these
methods in our basic training. Finally, we heard more about the Truth Seekers Ministry from Stephen Somers, Len Friesen, and Victor Somers.
Dave Kinsey (Missionary in Northern and Eastern Ontario) writes:
As the former Awana missionary in Quebec (before Lise), it was good to be back in Montreal and environs. My French hasn't improved any, but I think I heard more English in the hotel than French!
Joyce and I will certainly remember many of the events of the week. We felt so sorry for Lynne Heron when her wallet was stolen Thursday morning while she was having breakfast at Tim Hortons, and then her elation on getting a call that it had been found in the garbage at a second Tim Hortons. We made sure she was able to pick it up after the hockey game that night. It made for a rather late night!
All in all, it was a good week - one of the best, if not THE best missionary conference of my thirty-one years an an Awana Missionary.
To learn more about the missionaries serving Awana Canada around the country visit our missionary page!
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Praise Update from Cuba
Last year Awana Canada raised enough funds to buy Abner Gonzales (an Awana missionary in Cuba) a new vehicle for his ministry work in Cuba. It is serving him well and aiding in the growth of the Kingdom! He recently wrote to us and we wanted to share with you all!
Abner writes:
Last week I made a large ministry travel, I visited two regional leaders, one of them Pastor Luis from "Hermanos en Cristo" (Brothers in Jesus). Now he is very interested in the Awana program, he offers his temple to have our Seed Planter’s event in this area next week. In addition, He seems a good contact and promoter in this denomination.
I also visited a town named "Zasa del Medio" in the Sacti Spiritus province. I met with the Kids Ministry Leader of the New Pines Convention. We had an excellent ministry presentation. She is very interested and she would like to make a big promotion of AWANA in the New Pines Convention. Therefore, we are expecting to have a good group of New Pines churches using the Awana program very soon!
We can have those large travels thanks to the new car! Brother I can't describe how happy I am with this. I could travel and return comfortably, in time and without the worry of frequent breakdowns. This is good!!!
A hug!!
Abner
Please join us in praising God for all he is doing in Cuba especially through Awana! Continue to pray for Abner and his ministry there. This year we are raising money to send children to Awana clubs in Guatemala. Learn all about it here!
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