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Fall Leadership Training ConferenceBe sure to scroll to the bottom to click for Registration form and below information with pictures. The 2010 Awana Ministry Conference celebrates God’s faithfulness over 60 years in impacting young lives with His timeless truth. Generation after generation, God has used Awana to influence children and youth through biblical teaching and curriculum. God has also used committed leaders who partner with parents to build a legacy of hope in Christ in young children through teenagers. Year after year, Awana reaches and disciples children and youth to develop a biblical foundation for life that spans generations. We thank God for the amazing ways He has used the ministry of Awana to prepare generations of children and youth to follow Jesus Christ for life. Don’t miss this one-day conference dedicated to equipping you in your ministry role. Get inspired through a keynote message and choose from a variety of practical workshops. Whether you’re a Puggles leader or work with teenagers in Journey, you’ll learn effective ideas for evangelism and discipleship that you can apply to your particular ministry. National Live Simulcast Calvary Bible Church, Neenah WI and Faith Evangelical Free Church, Stanley September 11, 2010 First-Ever Ministry Conference Simulcast Celebrates 60 Years of Awana. Workshop 1: Recalibrate 10:05 - 11:02am Workshop 2: Rethink 11:15 - 12:02pm General Session 2: Celebrating What God is Doing in Awana 1:15 - 2:05pm Challenge for the Next Generation 2:05 - 2:30pm Larry Fowler serves as Executive Director of Global Training for Awana and has a committed passion for seeing parents and churches raise children and youth to know, love and serve Jesus Christ. For over 30 years, Larry has pursued this mission in a range of capacities within Awana as a local church volunteer, an Awana missionary and director of international ministries. Outside of Awana, he ministers as a speaker, author and key influencer of children and family ministry.Larry and his wife, Diane, have been married for 37 years and reside in Algonquin, Illinois. They enjoy faithfully encouraging their two children and three grandchildren to walk closely with Christ. Shawn Thornton has served as the senior pastor of Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village, California since 2008. For ten years prior to that, he served for ten years at Bible Center Church in Charleston, West Virginia.Shawn grew up in Awana and has served as a Sparks’s leader, director, game director and children’s pastor where he acted as commander of the club. Currently he serves on the Awana Board of Directors and has been a frequent speaker at Commander College. Shawn and his wife, Lesli, have three children who have all been in Awana: Jonathan, Katie and Megan. They live in the Westlake Village area of California. Jack Eggar grew up in Texas and attended church regularly with his family. He participated in religious education classes at his church and was confirmed at a young age. At age 13, Jack asked his priest, “Am I going to heaven?”The priest replied, “Of course you are. Weren’t you confirmed?”When he learned that head knowledge was not enough to ensure his eternity, Jack made a personal decision to trust Christ when he was 17, and God transformed his heart. He soon discerned that full-time Christian ministry was God’s calling on his life. He enrolled in Bible college to begin his training.Jack was introduced to Awana when he returned to the U.S. to pastor a church in 1987. Jack and Dona used Awana as a tool for community outreach, bringing hundreds of kids and families to faith in Christ and sparking record growth for their church. Their involvement in Awana deepened when they helped launch Awana in the former USSR in 1992. Jack was hired as Awana international missions director in 1997 and became Awana President/CEO two years later.Jack and Dona are the parents of four grown children: Joshua, Justin, Jessica and Bekah, all of whom participated in Awana and follow Christ today, along with four grandchildren: Daniel, Emma, Erin and Eric. Art Rorheim was born in 1918 to Norwegian immigrant parents in Chicago. Although raised in a Christian home, Art wasn’t convinced of his need for Christ until he was ten years old when his brother, Roy, died suddenly of spinal meningitis. The turning point for him was overhearing his brother plead with his parents to lead Art to Christ the night before Roy passed away. With Roy’s words to their parents seared into his memory, he received Christ as his Savior the next day.As a new Christian, Art got involved with the weekly club program at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle that was a forerunner to Awana. There he met Lance Latham, who would be instrumental in the founding of Awana and in Art’s life as his mentor and pastor.In the 1930s, Art volunteered as a weekly club leader at a new church that Lance established, the North Side Gospel Center. During World War II, he joined the Gospel Center staff as full-time youth director.“I’ve told people many, many times, I had no idea what God had in store for me when I became youth director of the North Side Gospel Center,” Art explains. “My mission field was strictly the mission field of the church and the neighborhoods. In fact, I always say that if I had known what was in store, I probably would have been scared. I would have run away.”Art’s unwavering commitment to leadership training and reaching and discipling children and youth can be seen in his 60 years of leadership at Awana. He values the role that adults play in the lives of young people because of the enormous impact that Lance Latham made on him.Art lives in Rockford, Illinois, with his wife of 70 years, Winnie. They have two adult children, four grand-daughters and 10 great-grandchildren.Commanders: Encourage your leaders to come and receive a big day packed full of training that will equip your club for some exciting growth both in numbers and in mentoring skills. Bring 70% of your leaders to the conference and earn a plaque for your church and a full scholarship to "Commander College" Check it out...click the commander connection on the left. Dates last weekend in January 2011 at Awana HQ. First 20 Registered free housing at Awana.
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