Which version of the Bible does CBC Awana use?
We use the New International Version (NIV) in our Awana Club, which is one of the three versions for which Awana International prints materials. (The others are KJV and NKJV). Although we know that people prefer different translations of the Bible for a variety of reasons, many of them good, we offer only handbooks based on the NIV. This prevents a lot of confusion among kids and leaders, and helps us minister with more efficiency. For clubbers who have already purchased handbooks based on other versions, we are happy to let them finish in that version before switching to the NIV. Of course, we do not mean to imply that other Bible versions are inferior, we are merely trying to establish some consistency in our teaching and memorization.
