Strengthened by Grace - Wager, Richard E
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This handbook presents systematic theology through an annotated outline of the basic truths, or doctrine, of Christianity. Concise and usable, every person will find this book useful in their study of Scripture.

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This handbook presents systematic theology through an annotated outline of the basic truths, or doctrine, of Christianity. Concise and usable, every person will find this book useful in their study of Scripture.
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I remember the first day that Rich Wager, then but a young lad, came to the club for the first time. He came from a home with an alcoholic father, but the excitement and friendliness of the club leadership immediately won his heart. How would one describe Rich Wager? You could say that his batteries were always fully charged; if you rated his enthusiasm on a scale from one to ten, he would get a twelve. He had the mark of leadership from the very beginning: In every activity, he was determined to win; losing just made him more determined to win the next time.Win or lose, he always had an enthusiastic smile that signaled his leadership to his clubber friends. After he trusted Christ to be his Savior, he grew faster spiritually than any clubber I ever saw. As a teenager, in addition to being a junior leader, he also accepted the burden of conducting his own Sunday school class. God blessed him with teaching skills from the very beginning. In 1950, the AWANA program was being developed so that it could be available for other churches to use as a ministry in their neighborhoods. I knew if the program was to grow, God would have to send leadership to make it happen, and God answered prayer by bringing Rich Wager beside me as our very first employee. Together we shared a desk under a stairwell-that was AWANA's first "headquarters" office. Rich directed the eighty member Pioneer Club at the North Side Gospel Center while I directed the high school club called Pilots. Rich and I together acted as a "think tank" as we were challenged to develop the AWANA program. Nevertheless, Rich said that we must strive for excellence, and we must get a printing press of our own so that we could print our own books. To raise money for a press, we gathered the clubbers together every Saturday and filled our church bus with newspapers collected from the basements and sheds of many homes.With the proceeds from sale of the scrap papers, we were able to purchase a second-hand printing press. However, neither one of us knew how to run our new machine! Rich, who was very creative, learned first, and together we printed the first book and its covers; the clubbers were corralled to come each afternoon to collate them. God was blessing AWANA each summer and Camp AWANA was a vital part of our ministry. Rich was one of the key camp leaders, and it was there that God taught us many of the basic principles of running a camp. I believe it was there that God gave Rich the vision and direction to direct camps. The most discouraging moment of my life was when Rich shared with me that God was calling him to leave the ministry of AWANA. He became youth pastor at Midwest Bible Church, where he soon got the AWANA program going, and before long he came up with the idea of interclub competition, which developed into the AWANA nationwide Olympics.With the camping heart he had, Rich also developed the Phantom Ranch camp ministry. Later he moved on to become the pastor of the Emmanuel Bible Church in Berwyn; by then he was developing Bible teaching materials and an audiotape ministry. Then, the birth of the amazing camp at Silver Birch became a reality. Rich also had a heart for foreign missions, and was selected to become the chairman of the AWANA Foreign Missions program. He was also a member of the New Tribes Teaching staff, whose members taught all the missionary candidates the basic truths of the Bible and showed them how to share the message of the Gospel. I can only hint at the joy I had in working alongside one of God's brilliant, yet humble, servants. Lance Latham, founder of the North Side Gospel Center and Camp AWANA, also had a large part in mentoring Rich Wager. In turn, Rich has mentored and touched thousands of lives, and his legacy continues today.What an inspiration and a blessing he was