This summer was the first time CEF of Peninsula was able to hire an intern to mentor and transport 5-Day Club teens. John Steiner was the perfect candidate, having attended Christian Youth in Action training for 4 years and serving on 5-Day Club teams for 5 years. He also has Read more
The Planning Team for Walkathon ’26 met yesterday. Seven folks came together to nail down details on scheduling, logo, and t-shirt design for our spring fundraising walk that will take place on Saturday, April 18th, 2026. Part of the discussion was how to state our mission in 6 words or Read more
Carol Smith gave teenager Erin Mannix a ride home from a CYIA pre-training the summer of 2017. Carol was so impressed by Erin’s testimony that she asked her to write it out. At CYIA in June of this year, I (Martha) met Erin’s younger sister, who was training to be Read more
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
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
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
What is it like at the state-wide CEF of VA Christian Youth in Action Camp? During the day teens are doing classwork, eating, practicing for a graded presentation, eating, having a bit of free time, eating, gathering for worship… …and then finally dropping into bed to sleep! Each night after Read more
U-Nite® – Songs to Dance To? Zory, one of our returning CYIA teens, says that she likes to play the CEF songs on her phone to dance to. That is something I never thought of, so I decided to check it out. Following Zory’s instructions, I used my phone and Read more
George Barna in his book, Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions, states: “…if you want to shape a person’s life—whether you are most concerned about his or her moral, spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional or economic development—it is during these crucial eight years (ages 5-12) that lifelong habits, values, beliefs and attitudes Read more