How to Get your pastor and church board to love your club
- Keep your pastor informed about what is happening in club, Especially celebrate the victories. It is the responsibility of the commander to keep the lines of communication open
- Lead clubbers to Christ. Effective evangelism invigorates the whole Body of CHrist. He loves hearing about salvation decisions in the church he shepherds.
- Involve Pastor, Associates, and Board members in club at least twice a year. Tag them each to a leader and let them watch your leaders minister to the clubbers.
- Involve Pastor in recruitment selection. Give Pastor unquestioned veto power over a person you would like to recruit.
- Keep the church’s Prayer Warriors informed about the needs of club and the clubbers first names and age. They would love to pray about your club and for your clubbers.
- Pastor/Commander develop/coordinate adult ministries for clubnight. Bible Studies for dad and mom fit real well with the goals of Awana
- Train pastor and Board about policies of your Awana Club. People who disagree with club policies often try end runs to the highest authority they can gripe to.
- Ask pastor to involve a leader’s testimony about ministering in Awana or leading a clubber to Christ (no clubber’s names) in a Sunday Service. Two or three times a year would be great.
- Encourage Pastor and Associates to attend an Awana Basic Training.
- Give Pastor and outreach teams access to the new families/clubbers registration data for follow-up and/or evangelism.
- Involve Pastor in setting goals for next club year and reviewing evaluation of club at year’s end. Keep him informed
Pastors:
- If possible be visible before and after club. It is a great time to meet family members nad visitors.
- Involve Sunday’s congregation in praise for the good things that happen in club (do not use children’s name). Also, involve them in prayer about the needs of Awana club.
- Do NOT allow end runs.
- Don’t use the Board for issues until after you and the commander have talked and prayed about the issues.