Share the Faith, Teach the Facts
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Children need to be taught not only what we believe but also the biblical facts behind the faith!
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Planting Seeds
/"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,"
Matthew 28:19
Gospel seed-planting and disciple-making opportunities abound. Here are 3 opportunities where you can be part of planting Gospel seeds and making disciples to Generation Alpha* right now in North Alabama.
*Generation Alpha is projected to be the largest generation in history, totaling more than 2 billion by 2025. This is our current generation of children, those born from 2010-2024.
Madison St Festival
On Sat, Oct 5th, volunteers will be face painting, making Gospel bracelets, and sharing the best news in the world! You can be part of planting Gospel seeds in the hearts of children and parents.
Will YOU tell them about Jesus? Time is almost out for you to be part of this Gospel opportunity. Don't wait, act now! You will receive free training to equip you and a CEF® background check at no charge to you.
To sign-up for a 2 hour shift on Oct 5th or for more information, follow the below link to our website, call/text 256-353-3139, or email cefofnal.gnc@gmail.com today!
https://cefofnorthalabama.org/madison-street-festival...
Christmas Party Clubs
Have you ever looked at the children in and around your life and think, “How can I help these children know the Lord and have true Hope?”
We would like to invite you to a Christmas Party Club training to prepare and equip you to share the true meaning of Christmas with the boys and girls that are in and around your life through a Christmas Party Club! The FREE training is online and has two dates available, Oct 20 or Dec 1.
Christmas Party Clubs present the Gospel to churched and unchurched children. These one-time events are taught by believers like you who love children and want to plant Gospel seeds.
Contact us today for more information or to get started! To register for the training, click this link: https://www.cefalabama.com/ministries
Good News Club
During the school year, an on-going opportunity to plant Gospel seeds and make disciples is the Good News Club!
Good News Clubs are taught by people just like you who have a burden to take the Gospel to children. The teaching teams are from partnering churches, or they can be a group of fellow believers.
We train, equip, and provide support for GNC teams as they conduct these excellent Bible club and build discipleship relationships with the children.
You can make an eternal impact in the lives of children and in your community!
Contact us today for information or to get started! cefofnal.gnc@gmail.com or 256-353-3139
Will you ask God how He would have you be involved in reaching what's projected to be the largest generation in history?
Make a Joyful Noise
/Christian Youth In Action 2024 #JOY
This Summer, Christian Youth in Action (CYIA) teens will be diving into God’s Word, uncovering more on the joy we have in Jesus, and learning how to share with children in North Alabama how they can find true joy through faith in Jesus. We need financial partners for the CEF Summer Ministry Program to make a huge impact in North Alabama! Our Staff and 3 CYIA teens will begin the summer with a 7 day life-changing missions training camp with other CYIA teens from across the state. Then they teach 5-Day Clubs (Bible clubs) in our local area with CEF staff and volunteers for 5 weeks in June and July, usually three 5-Day Clubs every week. Each year, many boys and girls come to know the Lord as their Savior or grow in their faith through these Bible clubs. Last summer, your generosity and the Lord’s provision allowed us with our CYIA teen to reach 299 children in 12 clubs! Also, 13 videos were produced reaching over 1,100 people!
Equipping Teens
Here is just a little of what teens have said they learned from their CYIA experience:
The importance of sharing the Gospel
How to share their faith
That God really will be there to help you
How to work as a team
How to better communicate & understand young children
Ways You Can Partner With Us
CEF of North Alabama is raising $11,250 by June 30, 2024, to fully fund the Summer Ministry of Christian Youth In Action and 5-Day Clubs. In 2023, almost $14,000 was given specifically for the Summer Ministry. These gifts fully funded the Summer Ministry and then helped with the start of the Good News Club season! Thank you!! We are excited to partner with you to be able to offer this FREE ministry to the community. Here are some ways you can partner with us this summer:
$450 sends one teen to CYIA training camp (7 days) and covers his or her teaching kit.
$375 covers the cost of one day of 3 clubs of summer ministry: materials, staff, and travel.
$1,875 covers the cost of one week of 3 clubs of summer ministry: materials, staff, and travel.
How Will You Share the Joy?
Will you prayerfully consider partnering with CEF of North Alabama in sharing the joy found through faith in Jesus? Are you or your church interested in hosting or sponsoring a 5-Day Club?
Please join us in praying for the teens, the children, and CEF as we endeavor to make Forever Followers of Jesus Christ this summer!
To donate by check: CEF of North Alabama, P.O. Box 2034, Huntsville, AL 35804
To give online through PayPal, CLICK HERE to go to the donate tab on our website.
**Please indicate “CYIA Summer Ministry” on your tax-deductible donation.
**You can contact us at 256-353-3139 or cefofnal.gnc@gmail.com.
Make A Joyful Noise
“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!” - Psalm 95:1-2
Will you join us in making a joyful noise singing praises of God’s work in Good News Clubs & Christmas Party Clubs this school year?
24 GNCs & 10 Christmas Party Clubs were taught by faithful volunteers; most GNCs were sponsored by church partners.
831 children heard the Gospel, were invited to believe & follow Jesus, were equipped & challenged to grow, & were encouraged to join a local church.
70 children believed in Jesus, & many more were counseled for growth and faith questions.
Tender Hearts
"I want to become a child of God!" A boy in our club stood up and exclaimed this after he heard "But to all who did receive Him...He gave the right to become children of God.” He was counseled and made a decision for Christ. A later week, he responded to the invitation to "believe...and have eternal life" because he wanted to make sure it was the same thing. Knowing God was that important to him!
"I've been sinning....A LOT," said a first grade girl who had believed in Jesus in September. She usually responded to the invitation with the desire to pray with a leader for her dad's salvation, but this time was different. When she looked so concerned about her sin, we read 1 John 1:9, "Confess...forgive." She talked to God about her sin and asked Him to help her live to please Him. Then she just wanted to talk about all Jesus had done for her on the cross. We re-read all the Scriptures about God's love, our sin, what Jesus did, and on and on. It was precious!
Coming soon to a computer near you... Teaching Children Effectively, Level 1!
Want to make deeper connections between the Bible & your children? Looking for teaching tools & techniques? Look no further!
What: An in-depth course to equip you to teach the Word of God effectively to children
When: Sept 7-Nov 16, Saturdays 9am-12 (Space is limited! Register now OR by or before Aug 10, 2024.) CLICK HERE to register or email CEFofNAL.gnc@gmail.com for more information!
Cost: $150 (includes student book & a full teaching kit!)
Where: Your home - This is a virtual course on Zoom
Why: Because children need the message of Life & Hope found in faith in Jesus Christ and need help learning how to follow God with their whole lives.
CEF® of AL, Inc. North AL Chapter is a nonprofit organization exempt under section 501c(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and contributions are deductible to the extent allowed by law. Child Evangelism Fellowship® will make every effort to honor the contribution designation of the donor, yet contributions must be under the direction and control of CEF®. CEF has the discretion to determine how to best use contributions to carry out its functions and purposes. Such control of the funds by CEF is required to ensure the donor's contributions satisfy requirements for tax-deductibility.
Life in His Name - He is Risen!
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Knowing all the sorrow, suffering, and pain He would face to pay the high price to redeem His people while we were His enemies and continually hurting Him with our sin, He chose to give Himself that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Read MoreChanging Lives One Child at a Time
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We hear many stories of children from our Good News Clubs that excite, encourage, and challenge us. We would like to share with you stories and pictures that remind us all of why what we and our volunteers do is so vital!
Read MoreEvidence of His Goodness
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We continue to be in awe of our God as we are privileged to witness the evidence of His goodness. God has opened new doors of opportunity for ministry in North Alabama and has held open doors He previously opened!
Read MoreChristmas Across America
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Looking for a way to reach your community this Christmas season?
Adults and children alike enjoy a good Christmas party, and Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF®) has developed an extraordinary program called Christmas Across America, a fun, evangelistic and innovative event for kids!
Endings & Beginnings
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August marks a time of endings and beginnings for us at CEF of NAL as we transition from our summer ministry to our school-year ministry.
Read MoreAn Egg-stra Great Way To Share The Gospel
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You can host an Easter Party for children this season and share with them about the egg-stravagant love of the Savior who died and came alive for them! You could host this one-time club in your church, home, backyard, neighborhood park, and more!
Read MoreTeens, You Can Gain Ministry Experience This Summer!
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You can make a difference in your community. You can impact a child's life for eternity. You can gain experience in ministry while still a teen. How? By bringing the Gospel to the next generation!
Read MoreSuper Seminar Specials
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Are you looking for ways to increase your effectiveness in teaching the children in your GNC, Sunday School, or other children's group? Announcing Super Seminar Specials!
Read MoreSummer Time is Time for Action
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How are you spending your summer? As relaxing as it may be to chill at the pool or hang out with friends, what if you chose instead to make an eternal impact in the lives of kids right where you live? Teens from around your state are coming together to reach the boys and girls of your community – and YOU can be a part of this team!
Read MoreWelcome, Ronda!
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Please join us in welcoming our newest staff member: Ronda Little! She is serving as our Office Manager & Bookkeeper.
Read MoreChristmas Blessings: Now and Forever
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How blessed we are this time of year to be able to focus on the amazing wonder that God’s eternal Son became a baby and entered our world!
Read MoreGod is working in children’s hearts! 😄💗
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This fall has been amazing! We are back in more schools and volunteers are stepping up! God has opened many doors of opportunity for ministry in North Alabama!
Read MoreCEF Day of Prayer 2022
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CEF’s World Day of Prayer is a day our CEF founding fathers gave us to be held[on] the first Wednesday of November. This day of prayer has such power and potential that we choose to step away to pray on behalf of children. Please join us in prayer that the Gospel will go forth mightily!
Read MoreBe Transformed
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This Summer, Christian Youth in Action (CYIA) teens will be discovering more about being transformed into the image of Christ and learning how to share the transformative message of the Good News of Jesus with children in North Alabama. We need financial partners for the CEF Summer Ministry Program to make a huge impact in North Alabama!
Read MoreSummer Ministry Day of Prayer 2022
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We at CEF of North AL are asking you to join us in prayer for the Summer Ministry on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Powerful prayers are needed as the foundation of this ministry and to accomplish much as God guides and works.
This day is set aside to intercede on behalf of the children, the teen summer missionaries, and the CEF staff. On the day after our Day of Prayer, the Summer Ministry launches with the week-long training camp for the teens, followed by five weeks Bible clubs for children in Huntsville, Decatur, and the surrounding area.
Read MoreGrow in Grace and Knowledge
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“I learned so much about organizing and sticking to the main biblical truth and main teaching during each segment/event of Good News Club. I feel so much more equipped!”
Read MoreDid you know there were satan clubs in the US?
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Did you know there were satan clubs in schools in the United States? Yes, that’s right. The Satanic Temple specifically targets schools with CEF Good News Clubs to start satan clubs.
Read MoreAuthor, 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.
Contact Us:
Local Coordinator: Jim Simoneau
Phone: 334-399-1733
Email: CEFofNAL@gmail.com
Mailing Address: PO Box 2034
Huntsville AL, 35804-2034