“Just to be Sure!” One of our Peninsula Good News Club leaders had a wonderful message from a parent. The morning following the after-school club meeting, Cole’s* father sent this text: “So we had thought Cole prayed before, but Cole called a family meeting last night and again this morning, Read more
CEF of Peninsula staff has been praying specifically to start a Good News Club at James River Elementary for nine years. In 2015, a team from another club held a Christmas Party Club there and 37 children attended! One little girl even faked her grandmother’s signature on her registration, she Read more
Josh always came into Good News Club with a hurt. He bent back his finger, or was bleeding somewhere. We used a lot of Band-Aids with Josh. We knew he needed that little bit of extra attention. Josh’s dad registered him in the Good News Club, picked him up each Read more
TESTIMONIES OF CYIA TEENS CYIA gave me a sense of purpose and showed me how desperately children need to hear the Gospel. If we don’t go out and share it with them, who’s going to share it? — Mary, former CYIA student CYIA camp is a good way to rewind Read more
Not Ability, but Availability God uses surrendered people. He has assigned talents and spiritual gifts to each of His children. That means members of His body are uniquely qualified to do His will – whenever and wherever He calls. Some of you remember Maggie H. who came to Williamsburg from Read more
Children Make Us Smile Volunteering in a Good News Club is a joy, and sometimes a surprise! Children haven’t learned to shade the truth, so you never know what a child will say. Here is a peek into what can happen at GNC. While introducing the Missions Story at Good Read more
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, Read more
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 One of the greatest blessings of my life was to be raised in a Christian home. My father abandoned us when I Read more
Why Go to CYIA to Teach 5-Day Clubs? This is the testimony that John Allon Steiner used for his CYIA application in 2021: Becoming a Christian is often simply boiled down to accepting the Lord as Savior. This is the core of Christianity: that Christ saved us from our sin Read more
From Bully to Buddy When children hear the truth about Jesus- who He is and what He has done for them, many are ready to trust Him. Jesus promised to give His Holy Spirit to those who believe on His name. Ephesians 1:13 When the Holy Spirit begins changing a Read more