January 15, 2021

Christian Youth In Action 2021

January 15, 2021/ Kathryn Burleson

In the winter and early spring, many take pleasure in the few sunny days where they can simply enjoy feeling the warmth of the sun on their faces. This summer, teens can bring the Good News of the Son to kids as they share Christ’s love and God’s way of salvation!

Christian Youth In Action (CYIA) is a CEF program designed to train young people to teach children about God and to grow those teens into future leaders.

CYIA 2021 is scheduled for June 6-12 at Raleigh’s Place near Clanton. If you will be at least 12 by June 1st (or know someone who will be), you can serve as a summer missionary spreading the warmth of God’s love with the children! The deadline to apply is May 1.

Author, Jim Simoneau

My story with CEF began in the spring of 1962 when a young college student presented the Good News of Jesus Christ at a Good News Club in Columbia, SC! God continued to work in my life through Godly parents and a godly church that was evangelistically focused. Through the years I particularly worked with children’s programs from missions’ projects like 5-day clubs, camps, and overseas missions’ projects beginning in my teen years and throughout my ministry as a Senior Pastor.

For the past seven years as a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama, I became very involved in Child Evangelism Fellowship Good News Clubs where I led one of the three clubs for at least 5 years. Between the three clubs over that time, I personally saw 25 children make professions of faith in Christ and many more made professions of faith over that time at our other clubs.

As a pastor part of my burden was to lead people to Christ and to help equip my members to share their faith and make disciples. I find that Child Evangelism Fellowship helped us achieve those goals and now I want to help other churches and other pastors to evangelize and disciple and to build the local church through conversions of these children, their families and even the communities around them.

Author, Kathryn Burleson

Kathryn trusted in the Lord Jesus as her Savior at the age of four. She grew up in a strong Christian family and in Bible believing church; she didn’t realize until she was an adult that the lessons she heard and loved in children’s church were CEF materials. Kathryn‘s close family consists of her parents, sister, bother-in-law, two little nieces, and schnauzer (Liesel).
In 1997, Kathryn began serving with CEF as a summer missionary with the Christian Youth In Action program and served every summer until college. During her college years, Kathryn coordinated the summer ministry for Northwest Alabama and taught in the clubs. She graduated from Bryan College in 2005 with a degree in Christian Education: Leadership and with a minor in Bible. Kathryn came on staff in Northwest Alabama as Local Director in 2005. In the fall of that year, she attended and graduated from CEF’s Children’s Ministry Institute, an intense three month training held at the CEF headquarters in Missouri. Kathryn served as the Local Director from 2005 until a couple months ago when she changed staff roles to be the Good News Club Coordinator & Teacher Trainer. During her years serving on staff, Kathryn took the CEF preschool course and also became certified to teach CEF’s Teaching Children Effectively Level 1 and Level 2 courses. Kathryn has a passion for the children and for seeing fellow believers become equipped to reach children for Christ. She is excited and eager to see what God is going to do this year and in the future through the Good News Clubs and through His people.

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