Awana at Home – Week 10

The theme of this lesson is God is always with us. Do we trust that God is with us, even when we can’t see Him? Game Time: For game time, the suggestion was to put several things in paper bags, then have each person come, blindfolded, and attempt to determine what was in each bag. [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 09

Week 9′s theme is God’s Word is Worth Memorizing. This makes sense, as one of the main facets of the Awana program is Bible memorization. But why do memorize Scriptures from the Bible? That’s the whole point of this lesson. Game Time: The game time suggestion was to play hide and seek or sardines. Normally, [...]

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Awana at Home – TruthScripts

When we first started doing Awana at Home, the Awana year had not begun yet at our church. All of our kids had completed their books up to the point they were allowed, so the question was, what to do for Handbook Time? The solution was to use the TruthScripts verses that Awana provides. The [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 08

This week focuses on the core message of Awana, being a worker approved by God. Awana is actually an acronym which means: Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed Game Time: For this game time, the recommendation is to play a Bible trivial game. You can go out and buy one of the various ones out there, [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 07

Week 07′s lesson is  a reminder that everyone is a sinner. However, just because everyone sins, that doesn’t give us the license to do it. This is a central theme during Bible Time for this week. Game Time: The game recommended is a kids’ version of Trivial Pursuit. I looked for it at various stores [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 06

Week 06 picks up where week 05 ended: looking at Saul. These two weeks together are a good set of lessons on how God can change us from the people we are to the people He wants us to be. Game Time: The game time was for the children to have a race to completely [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 05

Because of the game time recommendation, we decided to do this session at the Columbia Riverfront Park in downtown Columbia.It’s a great place for a picnic, so that’s exactly what we did. We grabbed some fried chicken for dinner, enjoyed that as a family, then went and did game time at the park. Game Time: [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 04

This Awana at Home lesson focused on the life of John Newton, the writer of the classic hymn, Amazing Grace (link goes to a performance by Haley Westenra). Many have sang that hymn and new nothing of its writer. In accordance with that focus, everything centered around the grace we receive from Christ Jesus as [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 03

If you’re not familiar with Awana at Home, you can read my previous post introducing it as well as what was covered in week 1. Bible Time: Weeks 1 and 2 concentrated on the fact that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Week 3 focuses on sin. We mixed things up a bit and [...]

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Awana at Home – Week 02

If you’re not familiar with the Awana at Home program, I gave an introduction and a recap of week 1 in an earlier blog post. Flexibility: Week 2 has game time scheduled for the outdoors. As a matter of fact, handbook time is as well. Because there are three separate components, we can schedule them [...]

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