As people are setting goals for this year, what if we believers set our goal to be to live out our faith and to share the Gospel with more people, more children?
If you are a teen and you want to make this your goal, we'd love to talk with you!
Read MoreToday, Child Evangelism Fellowship of North Alabama is positively impacting the lives of children and their future! We've had new Good News Clubs starting all fall in local schools and communities, and we are so excited to watch God work!
Read MoreIn CEF of North Alabama, we see evidence that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is on the move!
Read MoreCEF’s World Day of Prayer is almost here – Wednesday, November 3. This is a day our CEF founding fathers gave us to be held 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 MoreChild Evangelism Fellowship of North Alabama, local churches, and believers are working together to take the good news of Jesus to children through Good News Club® in public schools and in the community!
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I am very pleased to announce the beginning of our summer ministries this year! Our Christian Youth in Action program has already kicked off with some pre-training meetings teaching the basics of sharing the Gospel one on one.
Read MoreThis Summer, Christian Youth in Action (CYIA) teens will be on a mission to share the love and Good News about Jesus with children in North Alabama. We need financial partners for the CEF Summer Ministry Program to make a huge impact in North Alabama!
The CYIA teens begin with training at a week-long life-changing camp. Then they teach 5-Day Clubs (Bible clubs) 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 through these Bible clubs.
This summer, there is a great opportunity to minister to children during the summer school break. You, your church, or a teen you know can teach or help teach a summer club at one or more of our summer club locations or at a location you know where you would like to hold a club. We desire to partner with your church in making disciples of children!
There are several ways we can help you to reach children with the Gospel this summer.
You can host an Easter Party for children with one of these exciting theme parties! CEF Press® Easter Party Kits provide colorful visuals, English text, and resource PowerPoint CD. They include reproducible invitations and memory verse tokens; craft, game, song, and snack ideas and a clear presentation of the Gospel message.
Read MoreCould you use some encouragement this year? Do you want to feel renewed and equipped in 2021 to reach more boys and girls FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST?
For the first time ever, Child Evangelism Fellowship invites YOU to join us online for International Conference 2021, offered in an entirely digital format. After many long months of pivoting ministry and changing plans in the midst of COVID-19, we are excited to host this virtual event for the CEF family all over the world.
Read MoreInside this post discover more about ministry in our digital age, parties for children, summer missions for teens, and much more!
Read MoreIn 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!
Read MoreThis issue gives testimony to the power of God. I praise Him for doors He has opened and the lives He has changed, but there are many more who have yet to hear. The power of God continues to reach out.
Read MoreAre your kids getting tired of not getting to go to Good News Club or getting to hangout with their friends as much? Are you wanting them to learn more about God in a fun and exciting way right at home?
Read MoreCEF’s World Day of Prayer is coming soon – Wednesday, November 4. This is a day our CEF founding fathers gave us, to be held 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. We realize in the United States that this is the day after the elections. No matter the outcome, we need to pray that the Gospel will go forth.
Read MoreIn season or out of season, the Church is commanded to share the good news of Jesus Christ with thoughts, words, and deeds of truth and love. Child Evangelism Fellowship is seeking to reach every child, every nation, every day by praying for workers to enter the harvest, training and equipping individuals and church groups, and building bridges in schools and communities so that all may know that Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord!
Even with the Co-vid quarantine, God has given us some ways in which we are working. We would like to share some of what we have been doing:
1. Social Distance Clubs – The Decatur home Good News Club surprised us. A close friend of CEF approached one of our committee members and said, “My children need Jesus time!” Kathryn got right on it, trained the team, and got everyone background checked. They have 34 children with social distance rules! They are continuing for 6 more weeks, and we are all rejoicing. In Madison County, God opened a door for our director to lead a one-time party club with social distance rules, and 12 children attended. Two of these children had never heard the Gospel before!
2. Training Opportunities – Kathryn conducted teacher trainings for the Decatur home Good News Club volunteers, Parkview Baptist Church in Decatur, Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville, and Mosaic City Church in Huntsville. Three of these trainings were held over Zoom!
3. Christian Youth in Action- This summer, our team taught 8 clubs (7 5-Day clubs and 1 one-day Party Club) reaching 35 children! All of these but two were taught over Zoom. Together with Kathryn and Jim, the teen summer missionaries recorded videos to reach children with the Gospel. Around 70 videos have been recorded since beginning recording videos in March 2020. Through these videos, kids are learning about Jesus from their home. It has been successful with 18,000 hits so far.
4. Opportunity to Learn: Jim Simoneau has been taking Children’s Ministry Institute classes. Jim will finish his class on Progressive Methods of Child Evangelism very soon. Kathryn is studying The Armor of God from Ephesians in her personal study time and using what she’s learning to record a series of videos for children and their families; the first part of the series is already available on our social media.
5. Giving opportunities / Tax Law 2020
Giving and thanksgiving – This is often the season of giving and thanksgiving. Like for so many other ministries, this is a critical time for us to receive the necessary funds to make it through the year. With the virus still lurking around, we have not been able to get out and see as many of our supporters and supporting churches.
Many of you have been so faithful! We are extremely grateful! Your ongoing gifts and help, especially through this season, are much needed. We received $82,000 through September 2020. Any year end gifts would be greatly appreciated as we seek to reach $139,000 for 2020 if the Lord allows.
You can give by mail or online. We have a PayPal link on our website and on our Facebook page (It shows as “Shop now” on our Facebook page.).
For your information, there has been a change to the 2020 tax law regarding charitable giving while taking the standard deduction (The Cares Act provision see below).
If you take the standard deduction on your 2020 tax return (the one that you'll file in 2021), you can claim a brand new "above-the-line" deduction of up to $300 for cash donations to charity you make this year. Donations to donor advised funds and certain organizations that support charities are not deductible. Normally, you have to itemize on Schedule A to get a tax break for charitable donations. In this case, though, it is the other way around—if you itemize, you cannot take this new deduction.
Tinsel Tree – Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville is sponsoring a Tinsel Tree. $5 per ornament! In the first week $300 was received. If you would like to contribute before November 8th, please go to: https://southwood.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/263/responses/new
Special Projects – The Child Evangelism Fellowship of North Alabama Committee retreat has also identified many one-time needs to help the ministry in our area. We are increasing our labors:
a. CEF start up kit for new Good News Clubs ($85 for each complete 6-week teaching kit)
b. CEF training equipment. Heavy duty projectors for Kathryn’s teaching and Jim’s church presentations ($1,500)
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.
You are invited:
From November 1st to November 4th, Dr. James Simoneau (Jim) will be the keynote speaker Calvary Bible Church in Huntsville, Alabama. The topic comes from Acts 1:8b “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Read MoreCEF’s World Day of Prayer is coming Wednesday, November 4th.
What is this day? "It is tradition that Child Evangelism Fellowship sets aside the first Wednesday in November as World Day of Prayer. On this date the staff and volunteers in the CEF family suspend their routine responsibilities to spend a full day in prayer. This special day is spent interceding for the children of the world and the workers called to bring them the Gospel."
Read MoreThroughout this edition of Impact, you will read testimonies from around the world of how God opened doors, expanded ministry, improved communication, and fostered a greater unity among our workers.
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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.
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.
Local Coordinator: Jim Simoneau
Phone: 334-399-1733
Email: CEFofNAL@gmail.com
Mailing Address: PO Box 2034
Huntsville AL, 35804-2034
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