What is AWANA?

How it works

AWANA equips local volunteers in churches around the world with Biblical evangelism and discipleship solutions so that today's children may become tomorrow’s Christian leaders, in every aspect of society and culture.

We partner with AWANA international to provide training to local churches that better equips their Sunday School teachers with Biblical curriculum. 

HOA strives to train and disciple leaders, and to eventually work ourselves out of a job as we hand over leadership of various projects. Over the last 6 years, led by HOA’s Johan Mbasuku, we have helped launch and run a pilot project for Awana nternational to establish a network of churches in the rural, more needy areas. It has been a huge task, and now over 200 churches, and approximately 7,200 youth attend Awana in this area. The Hope of Africa SA will continue to equip and mentor the Awana District Team to strengthen them using Train-the-trainer programmes. This enlarges the footprint of discipleship and transfers leadership to the local church through Awana, so that they can become more equipped (educationally, agriculturally, and via discipleship) to serve their communities well.

We have seen our core churches embrace a deeper level of responsibility by becoming independent enough to raise the funds to run the day to day Awan program management. Also, we have partnered with Foundations of Farming and Open Schools Worldwide to bring in trainings to help these churches care for the orphans and vulnerable in their communities.