Please help keep the North East Texas Awana ministry going

Many Awana leaders and pastors assume that we are paid by Awana International to serve the churches in North Texas. That just simply is not true. Our ONLY means of financial support comes from churches and individuals within our region. This is my only job and it is a more than full time ministry.

We are currently experiencing a severe shortfall and have had to make cutbacks in our ministry and staff to try and get our account back into the black. Please pray about becoming part of our support team through monthly donations to our account. For more information please view the "read more..." link below.

Use this Testimony and Gospel Message at your Club

For several months we have been praying for the daughter of fellow Awana Missionaries Kevin and Jennifer Ivie. This past weekend she shared the Gospel at our West Texas AG and BQ event.

This message is from Kevin: December 13th 2011 our daughter Kassarah Ivie had brain surgery. Even though she still suffers from daily, constant headaches, we could have never made it through without all of your prayers. Thank you! Last Saturday, March 25th Kassarah had the opportunity to tell her story in front of K-2, 3-6 and Adults. To see her story and her Gospel presentation click below (this would be a great video to show your clubbers in Large Group Time.) Click here for the link.

Join the AwanaKnow NETwork email list if you wanna know what's going on in North East Texas Awana Clubs!

Just click here or use the box at the bottom right-hand side of this page.

I don’t plan to flood your email with a bunch of messages that you probably don’t have time to read anyway, but I do see a need for me to be able to communicate with just the Awana leaders and church staff in the 18 counties that are my primary area of ministry. My goal is to have at least one person in each church signed up for this list. It would be great if EVERY leader was on the list.

I promise that I will not give these email addresses to anyone else and that the messages I send will only be about things related to the Awana ministry here in N.E. Texas or other items that I know will help you in your Awana ministry.

If you have other Awana leaders in your church who you would like to have added to the AwanaKnow NETwork just have them send me an email stating that desire. They can use the box at the bottom right-hand side of this page or the link at the top of this article.

!New Training Video for Game Time!

Many thanks to videographer Don Walker for filming and editing this valuable tool for Game Directors. Look on the right side of this page for the video. Handouts that go along with this video can be downloaded below.

Log into ART today!!

If you have not done so yet please log into the ART web site for several reasons:

• You will gain access to several very helpful items to help you in your Awana ministry.
• You can do online training to help you in your ministry.
• You can update your leadership records which will help me make sure they stay informed about events and training opportunities in North East Texas.
• You can update you church information which will help me schedule club visits and be better prepared for events I am in charge of.
• You can sign up for newsletters from Awana HQ so that you don't miss out on any important updates and information.
• You can update your training records to keep track of your RIU points for your uniform name tag.
• You can purchase items from the Awana Catalog in the online store.

If you have never logged in here is how: Go to this link: http://awana.force.com/register

If you don't know your church registration number look for this link: "Forgot your Registration Number?"

If you are the Commander you will need your "Church Customer Number". If you don't know that you can call Customer Service at 866-292-6227.