Articles that relate specifically to Awana
(This is the first in a series of posts to share my thoughts regarding comments heard from hundreds of Awana leaders about the new Mission series of T&T books) In 2016, Awana introduced a new handbook for T&T which also introduced a change in how leaders would now interact with the clubbers. Before the introduction … [Read more…]
The cry has been heard loud and long as people express their concern that the new Mission handbooks for T&T are too difficult. It is the same outcry that was heard when T&T was first introduced in 2002, yet those books are now seen as the standard to fall back on because we are familiar … [Read more…]
(Updated 4/27/2018) Each year we contact the developers of record-keeping software for Awana, that we are aware of, for an update of their software. Our purpose in this is to help you be knowledgeable as you select a record-keeping product.This year we asked three questions: What improvements have been made in the last year and … [Read more…]
It has been a busy year for me at my FT job and in various other ministry related endeavors and I have not maintain CommanderBill.net as I desire. Like this week, I am currently in Springfield, MO for Summit 2018. As you may know, Awana has ended running Summit and it is now run by … [Read more…]
As the Awana year begins, we may set goals of how many clubbers we desire to complete a handbook. This is a standard that many use to gauge if their club is successful. By using this standard, I believe that we will find very few clubs, if any, that have a 100% handbook completion rate … [Read more…]