ShakeUP Your Community for Christ!

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• ShakeUP Your Community for Christ!

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• Todays culture bombards kids with unprecedented
  pressures and hopeless options, driving them
  toward temptation and sin

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• and away from God.

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• We are called to do something about it!
• Snatch others from the fire and save them
• Jude 23 (NIV)
• How?

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• Jesus said
• I am the gate whoever enters through me will be
  saved. I have come that they may have life, and
  have it to the full.
• John 109-10 (NIV)

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• So ask yourself
• How can I, as an Awana leader,
• help more kids meet Jesus this year?

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• Answer
• The Great ShakeUP

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• The classic Awana Clubs mottos used in the
  early days of Awana sum up
• The Great ShakeUP
• The other boy the other girl for Christ

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• It goes like this

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Andrew meets Jesus
Andrew brings Peter to Jesus
Andrew goes to find Peter
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Philip meets Jesus
Philip brings Nathanael to Jesus
Philip goes to find Nathanael
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Samaritan woman meets Jesus
She brings them to Jesus
She goes to find townspeople
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• That model still works
• Check this out!

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Joey meets Jesus
Joey brings his friend to Jesus
Joey goes to find his friend
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Ruthie meets Jesus
Ruthie brings her friend to Jesus
Ruthie goes to find her friend
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• So, what is
• The Great ShakeUP?

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• The Great ShakeUP is an
• annual,
• four week
• program that equips
• parents,
• leaders,
• and clubbers

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• To reach more kids for Christ and get them into
  your Awana clubs.

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The Great ShakeUP Timeline
You decide when to do The Great ShakeUP!
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• Prep-Week
• Promote the Great ShakeUP
• Low or no - cost publicity resources at
  awana.org/ShakeUP
• Two themes to teach from
• Recruit, train and equip your leaders
• Recruitment tips
• Guided Conversation resource to help share the
  gospel compellingly with kids
• Large Group Time 101
• Retention tips Keeping new kids in club!

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• Weeks 1 2 Pass the SALT
• Large Group Lessons teach Clubbers to
• Search Identify un-churched friends
• Ask Ask God for them to be able to come to club
• Link Be a link to Jesus invite their friends
• Transport Give them a lift
• Kids actually learn HOW to invite kids.

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• Week 3 - Parents Week
• Get your clubbers parents involved!
• A special club night
• to show parents how
• they can help their clubbers
• succeed in bringing a friend,
• and how they can help on the BIG NIGHT

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• Week 4 the Great ShakeUP Event
• The Big Day at last!
• Leaders are ready!
• Club parents are onboard!
• Clubbers are bringin their friends!
• Everyone pulls together to share the Good News
  with young visitors.

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• Exciting ShakeUP games
• A Great ShakeUP Song
• And a special gospel message
• Help make it a GREAT time for any kid!

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• For over 60 years,
• Awana leaders and clubbers
• in local churches
• have shared the gospel of Christ
• with kids and families
• who need the Lord,
• through their Awana clubs.

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• With
• The Great ShakeUP
• Your leaders and clubbers
• Carry On
• The Tradition!

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• Visit
• www.awana.org/ShakeUP
• for more details and to access free and low cost
  resources

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• So lets
• Shake things Up
• Around Here!