Bring a Friend Sections
As part of the mission of Awana, clubbers are asked to share their faith with friends and/or family. “…whose goal is to reach boys and girls with the gospel of Christ.” {Part of the Awana Pledge} They do this through bringing a friend or two to a club night. Sometimes this just does not work out, so to substitute for that section requirement, clubbers are asked to recite a verse(s) instead of bringing a friend(s).
Sparks – Find your current handbook and recite the appropriate verse.
Hang Glider
- Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Wing Runner
- Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses (in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.)
Sky Stormer
- Matthew 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; (and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”)
T&T – refer to the appropriate grade below.
* If a clubber brings one friend, recite the single starred verses and explain one.
** If a clubber is unable to bring any friends, recite all verses and explain one.
Third Grade
* Proverbs 17:17 “A Friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
* Galatians 5:14 “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
** Romans 13:10 “Loves does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Fourth Grade
* Proverbs 18:24 “ A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
* Proverbs 17:17 “A Friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
** Ephesians 4:29 “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
Fifth Grade
* Matthew 22:37-38 “Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
** James 4:4 “ You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”
Sixth Grade
* John 15:12-13 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
** John 15:14-15 “You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”