Here is the problem that I have with the AWANAs - great program but it’s focus is not on survival skills. The BSA did have that focus very much and I am struggling to find an organization that provides similar skills training.
The AWANAs programs that I have seen locally seem to never go camping, fishing, hunting etc. It’s all about Sunday school and it seems to be targeted to younger kids.
My son was in Royal Rangers for many years great program!
They didn’t have survival skills in general but, our church thought they should include skills in their curriculum.
Not even close to Baby Sitters of Amerika but, they did do some.
I taught others how to start fires when we camping on an AWANA expedition.
I had already been in BSA and had many of the skills taught mastered.
Check out Brigades.
Have you tried Royal Rangers? They are christian sponsored groups who focus on survival skills.
Check out Royal Rangers and its associated group, Frontier Camping Fellowship. RR is somewhat similar to Scouts, but with a more explicitly Christian mission. FCF is also explicitly Christian, but is more camping focused than RR, and particularly focused on "primitive" camping - they learn to build tepees, how to cook in dutch ovens on campfires, hunting (including black powder rifles and archery), etc.
I grew up southern Baptist and we had RA’s which was kind of like Christian boy scouts, at least that is how I explained it to my friends. My oldest son went through RA’s but sadly our church dropped it, tried some other programs and now does AWANA.
onmyhonor.net
or
royalrangers.com
Both are good Boy Scout alternatives...one is from a religious point of view, but they DO have the camping/fishing, etc. aspect. (Royal Rangers)
On My Honor is a group of Boy Scouts who opposed the pro-sodomite agenda, fought it, and lost...now they are planning, I believe, to begin a new organization—kind of a REFORMATION of the Boy Scouts, if you will...and since their “95 Theses” have been rejected by the hierarchy, they will begin anew.