Friday, November 23, 2012

Starting Something New

Our little church is going along great; we have visited, had special meetings, got college kids to help, but...is there something more or something new that we could be doing? I invited Phil Bell, a pastor friend from a town near us, to come by and talk to me about a new ministry idea for our church.

Phil began an AWANA program in his church. AWANA is a club for kids that my home church uses and I have seen work very well. Phil liked the program so much that he became the Regional Ministry Directors for AWANA for Latin America.

I interviewed him all about it and also what it was like to be a missionary. It is about a 45 min. interview. I don't have a podcast yet, but I will put the mp3 recording of it in my Dropbox folder. You may listen to it by going here.You can download the file and are welcome to listen in on our conversation.

Four people from our church came to the meeting we had about it at my house and we had a great time of orientation and training. We plan on getting everything ready, having a few practices and then officially starting the program when school starts up again, after the Three Kings' Day Holiday, around the 3rd Sunday of January.

Pray for us! If you have AWANA in your church, consider us as an AWANA missionary project that your club can get behind and help get of the ground!

We are willing to do some new things in the new year to have some new growth. But we need some new support and new helpers to make that happen. Please pray and plan on doing something new yourself this year. We hope that you will have a fruitful year and that you might help us have one also here on the mission field of Puerto Rico.

1 comment:

Ricky Kennedy said...

Praying for your AWANA start. We have a successful AWANA program at Faith Baptist of Avon, IN, with about 150 plus kids every Wednesday night. We have six full size buses going out to collect the kids from 4 towns. We have an army of bus workers (at least 6-8 for each bus) who go visiting to every child's home every Saturday morning. They also pick them up on Sunday morning. Our church has used AWANA and the buses to reach many whole families, not just the kids. It all started with a small group (about a dozen kids) about 20 years ago. God bless you and go get those kids for Jesus!