Training to Help Awana Leaders, Pastors and Youth and Children's Ministry Workers Evangelize and Disciple Kids for Christ

PowerUP Summer Activities

Important note: ANY summertime contact should take place with the approval of the child’s parent and be in accordance with your church’s child protection policies.

ONE
Just because kids don’t complete their books during the club year doesn’t mean they can’t work on them during the summer. Encourage them appropriately with get-togethers and incentives.

For example, hold a summer version of Super Section Saturdays. Invite the child’s family (if you desire, invite all your clubbers and their families) out for ice cream or over for a cookout. In the invitation, encourage the child to have some sections ready to say. Award a special prize for the child if he/she meets a goal. Not only is this a good way to keep kids in the Word, it shows great hospitality and outreach to families and can even be a time to reinforce some of the values of the Awana ministry to the parent.

TWO
Encourage PARENTS to help their kids finish their books over the summer. Offer a special pre-new-club-year Awana cookout or picnic in August or September for every family whose child completed an unfinished book over the summer. Of course, the clubber will have to say his sections to a leader to get credit.

THREE
Tell your kids’ parents about the Bible-BASED series, which goes along with T&T Book One, Book Two and Book Three. Parents can read the book that goes along with the handbook their child just completed and use it as a daily devotional. In addition to giving parents a richness of God’s Word – the same verses that his or her child memorized over the past club year – the books also suggest ways to disciple those truths into a child’s life. What a great way for a kid to be brought back around to his/her memory work!

FOUR
Why not initiate a summer Scripture memory challenge with the “finish line” being the first night of club next year? Pick accessible passages such as Psalm 100, Ephesians 6:10-17, etc. Hand out schedules and tips to parents on Awards Night and encourage them to do the verses WITH their kids over the summer. On opening night 2007, every kid who has memorized and can quote a given passage gets a prize … and if a parent can also quote it, then award the child a DOUBLE prize. If the clubber brings a visitor to the event, the friend gets the DOUBLE prize, too! There’s sure to be a lot of excitement!

FIVE
Club newsletters Sparkles (for Sparks) and KidsPrint (for T&T) will be available with new issues throughout the summer and will continue to be a good source of ideas. Find them on your club’s online page. A summer-only feature in KidsPrint includes BrainCheck, which leaders can mail to their clubbers. BrainCheck is a weekly Bible study that reinforces what a child has learned in T&T.

SIX
T&T Web games will still be available at www.awana.org/ttcards. These games reinforce T&T handbook knowledge.

SEVEN
Introduce your church families to the power and energy of a High Power Soccer camp. In addition to experiencing fun and fellowship, campers memorize a key verse. These camps are also designed as an attractive outreach for presenting the gospel to unsaved children in your community.

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