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Welcome to the Central & Northern
Wisconsin Awana Web Site
Missionaries Roy & Betty Koopman
Welcome to our website. The purpose of
this web site is to provide information to churches in the
Central & Northern Wisconsin region for use in their Awana Ministries.
Awana missionaries assist churches in reaching boys And girls with the
Gospel of Christ by introducing churches to the Awana program, training
Awana leaders and other children's ministry workers and coordinating events
throughout the region. This Web site brings together resources and
information to help the missionaries and the churches in the area to run
their Awana Clubs ministry more effectively. Any club may participate
in events in either Northern or Southern Wisconsin.
Ministry teams are available assisting the missionaries in training and
events.
Monthly Prayer Letter Click here
updated August 12, 2008
Interested in Starting
Awana in your church? Click here
(for Southern Wisconsin Missionaries Tim and Sherry Thomas click on
www.awanaswi.org )
New Sparks info for 2008.
Click here to read update
Awana Training for 2008/2009 club year
coming up this summer
August 20, Green Bay, Bay
City Baptist.
(Wednesday Evening) 6:00-8:30
Priority of
Children’s Ministry
Vision
Building
relationships
Clarity of the
Gospel
Discipline,
opening//closing
Connecting to
parents (Shake up)
New Sparks info
August 23
(Saturday) 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM, Pittsville Evangelical Free
(from 9:00 to noon Roy
will teach “Reaching Kids for Christ” for those who already
passed Orientation)
Priority of
Children’s Ministry,
Clarity of the
Gospel
Club ministry
Noon break (Lunch provided) donation box
Opening
exercises
Game Time
Handbook Time
Discipline
Council Time
Closing
exercises
September 6
(Saturday) 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM, Menomonee Alliance
Church
(from 9:00 to noon Roy
will teach “Reaching Kids for Christ” for those who already
passed Orientation)
Priority of
Children’s Ministry,
Clarity of the
Gospel
Club ministry
Noon break (Lunch provided) donation box
Opening
exercises
Game Time
Handbook Time
Discipline
Council Time
Closing
exercises
We may plan
one for One for North areas, keep watching.
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Check out Wisconsin Awana Grand
Prix it will blow you away
 Awana Grand Prix: Clubbers, Start Your
Engines
The Awana Grand Prix
is a Pinewood Derby-style outreach event founded
in 1964 to draw fathers to club to hear the gospel message.
Approximately 200,000 boys and girls compete annually in more than 5,000
Grand Prix events nationwide.
Here in N. Wisconsin 40% of our churches do a Grand Prix.
(Better than the national average)
We are here to help you make this one of your
church’s best parent outreach program. So we are equipped
with 2 tracks which include banner line detector, some decorative table
clothes etc.
One of the tracks you are able to borrow no charge,
just call and we can work out the delivery or meet together to get it to
you.
One of the tracks comes with one of our Ministry Team
couples, Daniel & Rhonda Foemmel. They have all the highest
tech equipment. You need to check this one out! They will
come to your church, set up the track, computer, digital projector, pa
system & let you use the banners and table clothes. All cars
will run down the track four times once down each of the four lanes, the
computer will time them to the 1,000th of a second on all four
lanes while projecting your clubber’s name, car name, car number,
placing, time to the 1,000th of a second, and MPH down the
track. (MPH is actual X 20 for scale size of cars – most cars
run 180 to 200 MPH) this is exciting to see. All you as a commander
need to do here is purchase the trophies and car kits, sell the cars and
promote the race and plan on a Gospel presentation as parents will be
there to see that car run. Of course you need to book the track
too. Plan early for next club year!
The Hi Tech track contact Daniel at Dfoemmel@tds.net
The other track contact Roy
at RoyK@awana.org
The Awana Grand Prix
is a family-oriented affair that allows clubbers to express their
ingenuity by creating and racing their own wooden Grand Prix cars while
enabling clubs to share God's plan of salvation with clubbers'
unsaved family members by attracting them to a fun event involving their
child. Many clubs include a special race for parents and leaders caught
up in the excitement of crafting their own cars. Grand Prix events
usually last about two hours or the equivalent of one club meeting.
Weeks before the
race, clubbers purchase small pine blocks of wood and plastic wheels from
which they construct their cars, usually with the help of a parent or
leader. Many churches also offer a “Grand Prix Construction
Workshop” to help beginners and those not mechanically gifted.
The cars race on a
wooden four-lane track. Awards are given for both design and speed. Clubs
award first-, second- and third-place trophies for each category. Each
clubber who participates also receives a ribbon.
The Grand Prix
provides a challenging, stimulating change in the club year that can draw
children back after holidays or a drop in attendance. Children’s
parents also get involved and the gospel is presented after check-in but
prior to races so unsaved family members hear God’s plan of
salvation clearly presented. The Awana Grand Prix is not only a fun
activity but a powerful tool for reaching unsaved dads.
Click here to check out supplies to get your
church’s Grand Prix off and racing.
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