Awana reviews

The leadership is lacking direction, old Southern good-old boys that are stuck in the 60s mindset that it's a man's world. Depressive and lacking in female leadership, this is a boys club atmosphere. They keep strong educated women out of decision making roles and nonexistence diversity of race on staff at all. The pay scale supports this in that women holding the same or higher roles, with more education and experience than male counterparts are paid considerably less. They jump from campaign to campaign without research and learning; never reviewing past wins and loses. this causes spinning of wheels and never accomplishing or finishing well.

Awana has wasted money trying to develop products and programs outside their core, resulting in a loss of trust among the churches they serve. Business has become more important than ministry, and the Lord is not blessing their efforts. They no longer require doctrinal agreement from churches or staff, resulting in a drift away from the basics. There are no gospel resources in the current catalog. They sold the warehouse to get enough cash to stay in business one more year, and now they are about to sell the HQ building for the same reason. Check the form 990s for the past 10 years and notice the trends.