AWANA INFLUENCES THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY
I left Elk City Thursday morning with Whitney who was going to check on her mother in OKC. I boarded the plane to Dallas at 1:20 and with in one hour i was in Dallas.
Jon picked me up.
Yvonne and Jon are amazing people that have been so supportive to our ministry for the last two years. Yvonne was very instrumental to start AWANA in our church. AWANA is a program that helps to evangelize and disciple children.
AWANA has done amazing things in our community. Bugongi community in Kabale, is known to be a very bad place for thieves, prostitutes, drunkards, witchcraft, drug addicts to mention but a few. When we first came in this community in 1997, no one could believe that anything good
would come out of it. But with the introduction of AWANA, children begun to learn about Jesus and memorize scriptures. Children would invite their friends to AWANA. The most interesting part would be games; many children enjoy soccer, rope skipping and other games. Children would come for games and then run away. So the AWANA leaders 
came up with a new plan; they decided to start with the part of reading scriptures and then teaching of the word before going for games. Before the kids realized this, they were already hooked up and believed Jesus. In a moment, children every where were singing gospel songs and reciting scriptures. One lady came to church and confessed she would not have come since she comes from a Moslem background, but her daughter who comes to 
AWANA prays every day for with her in Jesus' name. she is now a member of our church. Soon AWANA children influenced the entire community.Today, every one testifies that the Bugongi community has changed! Glory to God!
We are grateful to Yvonne and the Prestonwood Church AWANA that has helped us to do this much for our community. They donated to us Uniforms, game skits and books.
Today we have more than 180 children that come to AWANA and their lives have been transformed.
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