11 Easy Ideas to Celebrate Missions Month
You understand the importance of teaching your kids about mission work and would like to celebrate Missions Month with a creative activity, but time is slipping away. Ne brini! We’ve put together 10 easy ideas for you to incorporate missions into your current schedule.
Even if you have minimal time on your hands, you can still give kids an appreciation of cultures other than their own and the role missionaries play in reaching those cultures. It’s an investment God will bless and will be a blessing to others. Viel spaß!
1. Invite your Awana missionary or a missionary in your church to visit your club and talk about how God uses them in the country in which they serve. If a physical visit isn’t possible, meet with your missionary over Zoom.
2. Pick a missionary from the past and explain how God used them to share the love of Christ with others.
3. During Large Group Time, sing songs and recite Bible verses in other languages or teach kids how to say simple phrases in a foreign language.
4. Have kids write prayers for incarcerated individuals or those who are in hospitals or nursing facilities. Collect the cards in an envelope that the youngest kids have drawn pictures on and send it to those being prayed for.
5. During Activity Time, include games that are typical of those played in other countries.
6. Encourage kids to write an Awana missionary team or Awana club overseas. Little kids can draw pictures. For example, the Awana team and clubs in Ukraine would be blessed to know you and your kids are praying for them. Contact us at communications@awana.org and we’ll help you get them to the right person.
7. Share what is happening in Africa by reading some of the information from the Awana Africa Child & School Initiative.
8. Ask kids to bring in items for a church ministry outreach or missions project.
9. Designate one week of your dues collections to go to your Awana Clubs missionary.
10. Choose a family in your congregation who is in need of help in their yard or home and schedule a time for you and your club to perform acts of love.
11. Bring in a few snacks that kids in other cultures eat. Include pictures from Awana clubs around the world and information about the number of kids served there.
If these ideas are still more than you can plan for or your calendar for this month is already full, choose another time in the year to celebrate. There is no one way or time to teach kids about missions and their role as missionaries in their communities!
Carla’s work at Awana has been on the communications and marketing teams. It is important to her that Awana leaders and volunteers have the information they need to best disciple the kids in their care, and that these kids grow to become disciplemakers, themselves. When Carla is not at work, she enjoys walking with friends, taking pictures of birds and sunsets, or exploring new places with her husband and daughter.
