Why Do I Want to Attend CYIA? This is a portion of the personal interview I conducted with a 14-year-old young lady who wants to attend CYIA for her 2nd summer. She has used what she learned last summer at CYIA to teach in a Good News Club over the Read more
On Saturday, April 26th, CEF of Peninsula held our first Go and Tell! Walkathon in Williamsburg at Jamestown HS track and the adjacent Greensprings Interpretive Trail. We prayed for the forecasted rain to hold off until after 12:30 pm and were blessed that the drops began just as we finished Read more
Carol served our Peninsula chapter from 2017-2024, both as Prayer Coordinator and GNC Coordinator for NN/York Co. She is a prayer warrior and has such a heart for children that she served as a teacher to missionary kids for 25 years in both the Philippines and Germany. You can hear Read more
Lydia was 14 years old when she picked up a brochure about a ministry she’d barely heard of called Child Evangelism Fellowship. This brochure, unlike many other ministry brochures, captured her young imagination and she knew, ‘God wants me to do this.’ That summer, she attended her very first Christian Read more
Editor’s note: For over 10 years, Dianne Tate has taken a group of teens to the Christian Youth in Action© (CYIA) camp in June for training in how to share the Message of Salvation with children. Those 3-7 teens then served in the summer 5-Day Club ministry in York County, Read more
One option with each Good News Club series is the Quiet Time devotional emphasizing the lesson for that week. Children are encouraged to read, pray, and do an activity for 5 days before the next meeting. Below is an excerpt of a 2nd grade girl’s QT sheet. A parent must Read more
New Valentine’s Day Party Lesson We know that children are the ones hurt most by any disruption to family life – moving, a natural disaster, death of a loved one. The new Valentine’s Day story, “Shawn’s Search for True Love”, addresses the feelings a child has following his parents’ divorce. Read more
On the way home from a week at the Christian Youth in Action© (CYIA) teen training camp, the two younger brothers were asleep in the back seat. Their sister, Ruth*, was overjoyed at the boys learning to share the gospel, but amazed at how the other teens had embraced and Read more
Bible teachers need those refreshing times of hearing God’s voice through His Word. Perhaps you have been determined to read through the Bible starting with Genesis, but you end up getting bogged down in Leviticus. Try reading for 15 minutes a day – that’s it! The One Year® Bible gives you Read more
Sonship now and yet to come Two of the boys in our Good News Club were christened the “Car Brothers” by our teen helper. She was the one who noticed that both boys had names of car models. The boys are busy and ready to wrestle each other – or Read more