Today, more than 11,000 U.S.churches run Awana. There are clubs in all 50 states. Awana can also be found in 3,300 churches in 109 other countries and six continents. The Awana program to teach children the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Maranatha Chapel hosts one of the largest Awana groups in southern California.  Our clubs and programs make Scripture memorization fun and are geared to the needs of a range of ages and grades. And Awana works!

The acronym Awana comes from the first letters of Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed. This motto comes from 2 Timothy 2:15. "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

WEEKLY AWANA MEETINGS HELD ON SUNDAY NIGHT!
AKX -Journey24/7 Varsity @ 4:15pm - 5:30pm
JV-Trek 24/7 @ 5:00pm sharp - 7:30pm 
Cubbies -6th Grades @ 5:45pm sharp - 7:30pm 

For more info contact Michael and Debra Sims at simsos@cox.net.

AWANA Families,

 What a privilege it is to serve your children year after year.

There is no greater service, in the kingdom of God, than ministering to the children and teens of today.

 There is great joy in leading them to Christ and even greater delight in training them to be disciple’s of Christ with an unwavering faith and the willingness to face tomorrow with the resolution that apart from Christ we are nothing!

 So, we ask you today, are you ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with us and train up tomorrow’s future leaders?

Will you broaden your commitment to your children and join us in serving in this great ministry?

 Now is the time to act, because tomorrow will be the beginning of a new page in the history of God’s work.

"2008"

September Events

"Have a Blessed Year"

Be thankful for all HE has done!

7th     Opening Night
14^th   Beat the Clock
21^st   Team Color
28^th  Bring a Friend Night

October Events

Missions Month - Bring your coins & dollars

National Righteousness

"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34).

Modern Christians place great emphasis on personal salvation, but we must remember that God is also the God of the nations. That being so, our own nation, so greatly blessed of God in the past, may well be in great peril, for "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" (Psalm 9:17).

Our nation was founded by men who had strong faith in God, and its laws were based on the laws of God. The schools all honored the Lord and His Word, taught the truth of special creation, and enforced Biblical morality among the students. Today, God and anything associated with Him are banned from the classroom, His laws are no longer taken seriously in the courts and legislatures, and evolutionary humanism is, in effect, the state-endorsed religion. Divorce and immorality are affecting most of the nation's homes; business and finance are ubiquitously plagued with greed and dishonesty; the sins of homosexuality, drunkenness, dishonesty, and drug use are rampant, and pantheistic New Age globalism is an imminent threat at our gates.

God would even have spared Sodom, though, if there had been ten righteous (Genesis 18:32), and America has evidently been spared thus far because it is still the nerve center of world missions and Christian literature, as well as aid for the sick and needy. The modern revival of true creationism is centered in this nation, and serious Biblical interest is growing in many places, yet worldliness, apostasy, and compromise are eating away at the heart of American Christianity, and there is great need for a revival -- not of religious emotionalism, but of genuine commitment to the integrity and authority of God's Word.

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" (Psalm 33:12).