 Liberty Park Baptist Church Awana Clubs
Awana is an international, Bible-centered youth ministry providing
local churches with weekly
clubs
and programs for pre-schoolers through high schoolers. Our goal is to reach boys and
girls, and their families, with the
gospel of Christ and train them to serve Him. The acronym AWANA comes
from the first letters of Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed (2 Timothy 2:15).
 Awana began in 1950 as a youth program at the North Side
Gospel Center in Chicago, Illinois. Lance Latham, the church pastor, worked with Art
Rorheim to develop a program that would appeal to young people, reach them with the gospel
of Christ and train them in the Lord’s work. Other churches heard about the success
of the Awana program and asked if they could use it. By 1960, Awana had chartered 900
clubs.
Today, there are more than 8,000 churches in the United States that have Awana Clubs.
There are clubs in all 50 states. Awana can also be found in over 1,900 churches in more
than 90 other countries, from Argentina to Zimbabwe, from Iceland to Australia.
For more information on Liberty Park Baptist Church
Awana Clubs contact the church office at
(205) 969-1236.
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