AWANA

 Over the past few weeks, we have had the joy of attending Antioch Baptist Church, where our friends Jonathan and Chelsea Turner are serving in ministry. One of the ministries they have at Antioch that are girls have been most excited about is AWANA. Our girls loved the AWANA ministry with our church family in Virginia in FBC Grottoes. We still miss our AWANA friends there in VA, but our girls are excited to be back in AWANA here in NC and making new friends here.
Bethany is in the Puggles group, the 2 to 3 year old age, here at Antioch. Here she is on the playground with some of her new Puggles friends.

 Rebekah, with her start in 1st grade, has moved into the Sparks group and Rachel is now in T&T. Here they are with our new AWANA commander, Ms. Mandy. She does a great job with all the kids!

 Rachel was very excited to finish her first small book and say her verses to earn her T&T shirt and backpack the first week we were there.

Yesterday brought us to our 2nd week to attend AWANAs and our first theme night: Crazy Hair Night...yes, I think these girls were ready!!

 Here is Bethany with her new friend and fellow Puggle, Hadley. Bethany loves her new Puggles backpack too!

 Here is the Crazy Hair Crew from AWANAs last night!

Rebekah also finished her small book this week and received her Sparks vest, book and bag.  Here she is with her leader, Ms. Bonnie. This was a very excited crazy haired girl to get her new vest!

 They were excited to tell Pastor Jonathan what they had learned and Bekah was able to say her full verse (John 3:16) for him.

 Here are all our happy AWANA girls with Ms.
 Mandy last night. They loved crazy hair night and learning new verses and they are all very excited for what is to come this year in AWANA!