What We Are About

Dear Parents,

In our Awana Program we are all about fun, the fun in learning about God, the fun in games, the fun in learning Bibles verses, and the fun in socializing together with the kids, the leaders, and the parents.

We have an open door policy in our program which means parents are free to come and stay as along as they would like as long as they do not interrupt the normal operation of club and they can come as often as they would like.

Our Program has a Game Time, a Counsel Time, a Snack Time, and a Handbook Time.  We meet every Friday starting in the Fall at 3:30pm and end at 5:30pm and we run this program until early Spring.  

Our youngest group of kids are ages 3 & 4 and are part of our Cubbies Program.  We have them learn Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned... We try to keep it simple with this age group.

Our younger group of kids in grades k-2 are part of the Sparks Program in our Awana Program and their key verse is John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  With this age group this become a little more challenging, but only learn one verse per section in their handbooks.

Our older group of kids in grades 3-6 are part of the T&T Program (Truth & Training) in our Awana Program and their key verses are Titus 2:11 to 13 - For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.  In this age group, these kids learn anywhere from two verses to six verses per section and some cases more.

The next to oldest group of kids is our Trek Program, these are our Middle School and High School kids, and this program has a handbook that works more as a Bible Study and discussion group.  They discuss topics of Bible times, how they relate to today, and how we can apply it to their own lives.

Our oldest group of kids are our high school kids and this is a home study program as to which we have a couple of kids working in this group.  This is the Journey Program.

In our program we have also have a key verse for the entire club and that is 2 Timothy 2:15 - Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

We find these Biblical truths very important to shaping the young minds of our children in the way that God would have them to go.  This is the foundation on which we build.

Our Program is a church funded program as we don't want to be a financial burden to the families who participate in our program.  So we provide handbooks, uniforms, awards, etc...all at no cost to the families. 

In years past we have gone by the school calendar, meaning when school is closed so is the Awana Program.  This year is going to be different.  We will take holidays and school vacations off, as well as major snowstorms.  We will notify you when we are taking a day off by email because of a  snowstorm or some other weather related event. 

The Awana Program is an international youth program that is in more than 121 countries around the world and is currently reaching more than 4.1 million kids.  Awana originally started in Chicago in 1940 and became incorporated in 1950.  
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If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact me using the contact form.

Sincerely,
Awana Commander
Becky Morrison​

Transportation 2020-2021

Every year we discuss transportation in club, but starting this year things will be different as we no longer will have the benefit of the school district to transport your kids to our Awana Program.  If you have kids in the Songo Locks School that are in Kindergarten or 1st grade you will have two options...either you can pick them up and bring them to club, we can pick them up for you, or you can have your child come to club with one of their friends who is also coming to club.  One thing that has not changed is this, if your child is picked up at Songo Locks School they will need you to send a permission slip to the school letting them know that your child will be attending our Awana Program at Cornerstone Gospel Church and we will be picking them up.

If you are able to RSVP, please reach out to us and let us know your child is coming by filling out the Contact the Commander section above.​​

The Awards and Rewards System

Kids can earn book awards which are handed out at the end of each club year.  They receive the pins with these handbooks at the time they finish them if there is one that goes with it.  The kids also earn awards that go on their uniforms at different times of the year or when they finish different parts of their handbooks.

Kids can earn shares for passing sections in their handbooks, as well as being on the winning team, not to mention if they bring a friend to Awana.  If they remember their uniform, handbook, and Bible there is a share for this.  Remember these items for an entire month and there is a bonus amount of shares.  Pass a section every week and there will be a bonus amount of shares then too.  However, be absent during the month and the bonus goes away for that month and you have to start over the next month.  Keep in mind that most months have only three weeks to them. 

Then in December and April we have what is called the Awana Store / Awana Auction to spend their shares on items.

​Special Activities
Every year we do different activities such as Game Day, Samaritan's Purse, and Grand Prix to name a few.  We also have in some guest speakers from time to team and special presentations as well.