A Christian Youth in Action® Testimony For this week and next week, we are posting two special testimonies from this year’s CYIA! This week, we’re hearing from John S.: “This year’s CYIA felt like it had a certain theme to it: call to action. It wasn’t an official theme by Read more…
New Podcast from CEF International Beginning with founder, Jesse Overholtzer, CEF has emphasized training local Good News Club teachers to take the Gospel message to children in a way they could understand and respond to in faith. With the pandemic limiting in-person ministry and training, a need to answer the Read more…
Why is Training so Important to CEF? Our annual fall training session for Good News Club teachers and other volunteers is scheduled for: September 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church 1647 Briarfield Road in Hampton, VA This training session will use the QuickStart training video Read more…
Two 5-Day Clubs in June Our summer ministry of week-long 5-Day Clubs (5DC) started the last week of June in two locations. Williamsburg The teens who trained for a week in CYIA camp at Eagle Eyrie put their training to the test with a home club in Jacquie’s backyard. Only Read more…
In-Person GNC Training: QuickStart and Advanced Bible Lesson Training Our annual fall training session for Good News Club® teachers and other volunteers is scheduled for September 25, 2021 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church at 1004 Yorktown Rd. in Yorktown, VA. This training session will draw Read more…
There is Another Harvest Choosing pumpkins, picking apples, running through corn mazes, jumping in piles of colored leaves… Experiencing the splendor and bounty of fall with children is so much fun! Their eyes grow big at the sight of sooo many pumpkins of every shape and size. The littlest one Read more…
Good News Club Training “Who needs training anyway? I already know all the Bible stories and have been teaching Sunday School for 10 years.” That is what I was thinking when my pastor “strongly suggested” that all Sunday School workers attend a training from a CEF staffer, a friend of Read more…
Our Amazing, Surprising God! What a perfect setting, the high hills of Virginia, to inspire a group of teens, but just not them – all of us. Yes! That’s our God, inspiring, pushing us all on to a cause so great we can’t do it ourselves. Then it’s really His Read more…
Christian Youth in Action® Summer 2019 a Success Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF®) of Peninsula participated in the Christian Youth in Action® (CYIA®) camp this summer held June 16th–22nd at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center in Lynchburg for Virginia teens (and adults too). We had over 37 teens and 2 adults Read more…
CEF of VA Christian Youth in Action Training “Lydia was 14 years old when she picked up a brochure from 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 Read more…