Awana

This year marks the second year of helping out with Awana here in Ripon. I'm excited. Way excited. I feel like I finally know what I'm doing, so I can actually do something other than help as an extra adult body shuffling kids from room to room.

This year we have made some changes, one in which I'm very excited about.

Us leaders are going through a book! If you are not familiar with how Awana runs, let me outline it for you. It's an hour and a half of kids playing fun games, listening to a sermon about Jesus and the Bible, and memorizing verses from the Bible. Going through a book means memorizing a range from 80 to 133 verses.

Well when I learned we were going to go through a book, I was VERY excited. One: I get to have the accountability from kids (which seems much more...brutal then if it where say...my husband who is more understanding of my excuses. Kids don't let anything slide by ;) ). Two: I get to memorize God's word. Which I haven't done since... well since I was in Awana and other programs like that. Three: It's so much easier to explain the verse to a child when you study it in depth.

Turns out, the book I'm going through is actually kind of hard! And I'm only in the first one!! I'm excited about what I'm going to be able to do as a leader this year, through this book and through just being able to become friends with these girls.