Awana TruthSeekers

1. Awana TruthSeekers And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.John 8:32

2. What Is Awana TruthSeekers? • A Bible-based club program for boys and girls. • A four-year, weekly program for:

3. All Children Have Needs In all countries and cultures, some of these needs are the same. • They need to be loved. • They need to learn and grow. • They need adults to care for them. • Above all – they need Christ!

4. Many Children Today Face Difficult and Serious Problems. Many see evil all around them. They are seeking answers and help — and are often looking in the wrong places. We have the opportunity to teach them to know who God is, what He is like, and to show them God’s grace. We have the privilege of showing them that God has made a way for them to have forgiveness of sins and eternal life through His son, Jesus Christ.

5. Not All Children Learn the Same Some cultures or worldviews require different learning methods in order to reach their children with a clear understanding of the gospel. Some of these may include: • Children in predominately animistic cultures • Children from false-religious worldviews • Children with little or no biblical background • Children who cannot read

6. Why Awana TruthSeekers? We desire that all children receive a solid biblical foundation upon which to base their salvation and continual spiritual growth. “This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” John 17:3 We believe these lessons can help you do that.

7. Five-Day Program Schedule • This program is set up to meet for two hours. The time is divided as follows: • · Council Time — 35 to 40 minutes • · Team Time — 35 to 40 minutes • · Game Time — 35 to 40 minutes • If it is necessary to shorten the length of the meeting, keep the same ratio. • Check-In Time • Before the meeting begins (10-15 minutes), leaders will register the children who come to the Five-Day Program. Check-In Time includes recording attendance, assigning new clubbers to teams (Team Color Groups) and playing casual games. (Informal games should be available to keep children busy before the meeting begins.) • Lesson Time • During Lesson Time, all children meet as a group. • Lesson Time includes: • · Song time • · Story time • · Verse memorization • · Bible lesson • Team Time • Children meet in small groups to work on “Awana Cards.” • Game Time

8. TEAM__________________ LEADER________________ Checking In Attendance Form

9. Council Time • Songs • Story Time • This is an application story to introduce the lesson (in Awana Cards). • Verse Memorization • Learning as a group will especially help those children who cannot read. • Bible Lesson

10. Council Time Lessons The Teacher’s Guide will help the teacher teach the lessons using pictures and charts.

11. Program helps: • There are five lessons. • On the pages following each Bible lesson you will find a page of suggestions for teaching the lesson, activities for lesson time, memory verse bonuses and alternatives, and scripts for puppets and skits. (You may incorporate your own ideas for activities and make the visuals larger and colorful.) • Master copies for all Bible lesson visuals and activity projects are in a separate packet. If the visuals in the Bible lesson are not illustrated in the lesson, you will find a copy of it following the lesson. 

12. Team Time • Children divide into their team color groups. • Children receive their Awana Cards. • Children recite their memory verse, answer questions in their Awana Cards, complete the activity on the back of their Awana Cards, and recite review and bonus verses. • Small group leaders sign completed cards and fill out the small group forms.

13. Keeping Records

14. Awana Cards Awana cards include the lesson application story, a memory verse to be learned at club, questions about the story or verse, the Bible lesson summary, and a fun challenge on the back. They are a tract, too!

15. Review Verse Forms motivate children to earn extra points for their team by reciting the lesson memory verses. Bonus Verse Forms motivate children to earn extra points for their team by reciting extra verses related to the lessons. Motivation Tools

16. More Motivational Tools The Award Wall Chart encourages children to finish their Awana cards. Their progress is recorded with a sticker as each card is completed.

17. Game Time

18. Keeping Score

19. How do we prepare? • Have your lessons divided and well prepared. • Have visuals ready. • Have Memory verse game prepared. • Have verses memorized. • Have activity supplies (scissors, paper, glue, crayons, markers, pens, pencils, etc.) ready with samples made. • Have skit prepared – puppets, drama, mime, etc. • Know who is doing what for each lesson – teacher, memory verse leader, team leaders, small group leaders, game director, song leader, skit participants, etc.

20. Have our goals been met? • Did we teach the lesson complete and clear? • Did we make the lessons interesting? • Did we keep to the schedule? • Did we take interest in the spiritual condition of each of the children in our team/small group?

21. Most important goal: That all children receive a solid biblical foundation upon which to base their salvation and continual spiritual growth.