Cinthia’s Family Comes to Jesus in Brazil
Cinthia is 6 years old (shown here in the yellow headband with her grandma and her mom holding her little sister). Cinthia recently won 2nd place in her Oanse’s Scripture memory competition. Through her involvement in Oanse at her church in Brazil, her mom, grandma, and other family members have come to church and are [...]
What drives a 10-year-old to consider suicide?
I can hardly imagine the pain Nayerly was feeling when, at 10 years old, she thought her life wasn’t worth living. Praise God that her story has a wonderful ending! Growing up in Venezuela, first Nayerly was abandoned by her father, and then her mother died a few years later. Nayerly’s grandmother took her in [...]
Held Captive on Trinity Island in Ecuador
Background: Trinity Island is an area where fugitives hide from the police, continue their drug trades, and base their “hit man” operations. Everyone is armed. The area is divided into two sections, the Beret’s and the Jesse’s with each having a “boss” who has full control of the area . Anything done in that area [...]
My Heart Broke a Little Bit More
My church kicked off an initiative last month called “The Least of These”. Our focus is to reach out to each of the people mentioned in Matthew 25:35-40, “For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you [...]
Bible Verses on Soccer Balls?
A team of four adults and six high school students from Highlands Community Church in Renton, Washington spent an exciting week in February helping put on an Awana High Power soccer camp in Ecuador. Supported by Awana International Area Directors for Latin America, Randy and Joy Newburn, the team worked with adults and youth leaders [...]
Haiti – One Year Later – A Pastor’s Prayer
It has been one year since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. This is a note from a Pastor of one of our Awana churches in Haiti. As we come to the first anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, we want to remember the great solidarity that was demonstrated all around the [...]
No One to Help and Nowhere to Go…
I was in Haiti last April to help build a playground for an orphanage in Fond Parisien. While I was there I met a young lady named Darlene, who was injured in the earthquake, loosing both her hands. She was at her job as a hotel receptionist when the when the earthquake hit and the [...]
A No Good, Very Bad Day?
There is a book I remember reading to my sons when they were young about a young boy named Alexander. In the book Alexander had a no good, very bad day. From the moment he woke up it seemed like everything went wrong for Alexander. I must admit that I can feel that way some [...]
The Story Within the Story
I recently spoke to a group of pastors in a beautiful, old church in the St Ann Parish of Jamaica. Before the meetings began, I was walking around the church building admiring the old architecture and noticed the plaques on the wall. Each of the plaques gave testimony to beloved leaders, the dates of their [...]
How Am I Ever Going To Get There?
There are just not enough hours in a day. How am I ever going to get everything done so that I can get to club tonight? Have you ever had one of those days? Nothing seems to be going right and there is just too much to get done before club starts. And then on [...]
God Provides for the Hungry in Haiti
We had the privilege of taking two truckloads of food to a tent camp for hundreds of people who had run out of food. As I hopped out of the truck, I saw people of all ages, form a line. They were instructed to send one member per family to a single file line to [...]
Easter in Haiti
I will never forget Easter 2010 in Fond Parisien Haiti. As I stood amidst a crowd of Haitians, most injured or displaced from the January earthquake, I could not get over how much they were rejoicing to the Lord for all He has done. The pastor was addressing the crowd, it went something like this: [...]
The Power of Seeing and Hearing
Eye On Awana is the new Awana International blog site. We hope to make it more than just a blog. We want to share with you some of our passion for reaching out to kids around the world in a cross-cultural context using the Awana ministry. For most of us here in the Awana office [...]
