Awana

I have been meaning to write a more in-depth post about Awana for a while now.  Jackson and Max love this program!!  Awana is an international, Bible-centered kids program where the boys go to a weekly club meeting and have special books they bring home with them to work on and memorize verses through the week.  Jackson is a Spark this year and Max is a Cubbie.  They were both Cubbies last year.

Jackson was excited to move up to Sparks this year and I knew the books would be appropriate for his learning level.  By memorizing Bible verses, the kids earn patches to sew on their vests and jewels, which go into a pin they wear on their vests.  They also get paid in "Awana bucks" for coming each week, bringing their books, wearing their vests, bringing a Bible, and learning the verses.  Then, they get to shop at store night 3 times during the year.  Those are definitely exciting nights!  Each club night has a group lesson time, game time, and handbook time, where the kids recite or work on verses.

Max is a Cubbie this year.  The idea is the same as Sparks, but the verses are broken down into shorter segments or summarized as shorter verses.  He is having lots of fun in the class and has a wonderful table leader.  He has become fond of the table leader's daughter and it is really cute to hear him talk about "his friend ______."  He comes home every week with coloring or some kind of craft they have done and then we work on a new verse for the following week.

Since we started the year a bit late, Jackson is very interested in catching up on verses.  This week he will have memorized 7 verses, with two of them being repeated.  Here is a video of him saying the verses.

And here is a picture of Jackson in his Sparks vest.  Max was being too silly and I couldn't get a picture of him.  Par for the course with Max, lol.