For nearly 60 years, Awana has been a leader in children's ministry, helping churches and parents worldwide raise children and youth to know, love and serve Christ.

 Based in the Chicago area, Awana is the only organization with fully integrated evangelism and discipleship programs for ages 2-18 that actively involve parents, church leaders and mentors.  Each week, more than a million children and youth, 250,000 volunteers and 300- plus field staff take part in Awana in over 17,000 churches in the U.S. and internationally.

 Awana works with churches from nearly 100 different denominations.  It began as a children's program at the North Side Gospel Center in Chicago in 1941.  Lance Latham, North Side's senior pastor, collaborated with the church's youth director, Arth Rorheim, to develop weekly clubs that would appeal to churched and unchurched kids, lead them to trust Christ for salvation and grow them in enduring faith and service to God.

 Other churches learned about the success of the program and inquired about its availability.  In 1950, Latham and Rorheim founded Awana as a parachurch organization.  By 1960, 900 churches had started Awana programs.  By 1972 Awana had begun its first international club.  Today, children and youth in more than 100 countries participate in Awana programs, and millions of adults are alumni.

 The founders of Awana derived the Awana name from the first letters of Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed as taken from 2 Timothy 2:15 of the Bible.

At Mountain View E-Free Church, our clubs are open to any kids 1-2 years prior to entering Kindergarten through 6th grade.  We meet each Wednesday evening from 6:30pm - 8:15 pm.  On opening night, the last Wednesday in Augus, we officially kick off the year with a fun evening of games, registration and information.  The weeks following this, we start holding fully scheduled club meetings.

 Our club year generally ends the first or second week of May.  We do not meet during the summer months, and we follow the Weld County School District 6 schedule for breaks, such as Christmas and  Spring break.  If District 6 does not have school, we will not have club.

 Registration forms, as well as our registration dues and fees, are available online.  There are scholarship applications available for those in need, which can be obtained from our Awana commander.

 If you are interested in helping with our Awana club, please contact our Awana commander.  There are many areas where extra help could always be used, requiring everything from weekly to monthly commitments.  For the safety of all the children placed in our trust, a basic background check will be required if you will be working directly with the children.