Many things change when military children move from one base to another every few years\u00a0— but they can find one constant at nearly every military location:\u00a0 AWANA.<\/p>\n
AWANA<\/a> — Approved Workmen are Not Ashamed (2 Tim 2:15) — is a non-denominational Christian youth program that has found a home in military chapels around the world.\u00a0 From Wiesbaden, Germany<\/a>:<\/p>\n The words Nathaniel Enriquez, 8, uses to describe why he enjoys the Awana religious education program are a testament to its popularity among children. Note, he said, “get to.” These programs are available, of course, because the US military makes a significant effort to protect the religious liberties of its servicemembers (and their families) no matter where it may send them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many things change when military children move from one base to another every few years\u00a0— but they can find one constant at nearly every military location:\u00a0 AWANA. AWANA — Approved Workmen are Not Ashamed (2 Tim 2:15) — is a non-denominational Christian youth program that has found a home in military chapels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2578,38,5284,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-14645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-awana","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n“You get to learn stuff like Bible verses and Bible stories,” Enriquez said, describing what he does at Awana meetings.<\/p>\n
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\nEnriquez, who has participated in the program since his preschool years, said the program is also a lot of fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n