Sometimes we forget how God can use us in a single moment when we are obedient to Him. One woman attended a CEF training at a local church in Chicagoland, where she learned how to share the Gospel with little ones. After taking the class, she moved to Alabama and began attending a little church.
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A flannel graph set, an accordion, and a Bible club curriculum: tools used to lay a foundation. Over the years, Scripture verses, the Lord’s prayer, and hymns hammered a structure into place. The Wordless Book (a tool that teaches the Gospel through colors) continued constructing truths in the lives of young children who attended CEF’s...
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My friend Jackie was going down the hallway at her local school, wondering how she could keep the Good News Club going when she no longer had a team of Good News Club teachers. As Jackie and her grown daughter walked down the school hallway, she and her daughter prayed about the situation. Suddenly a
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Emma is a 5-Day Club teacher, having gone through CYIA for three years. She graciously has shared her first 5-Day Club experience of the summer with us. Emma writes: “On the three-minute ride to 5-day-club, I felt nothing but exhaustion and discouragement. The previous day’s club had been, well, not exactly ideal. The children had
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As we sat in the crowded living room, the children bounced up and down on the couches excitedly—all except one child, who sat quietly, hands in her lap, looking down. I was immediately drawn to her. “What’s your name, Sweety?” “Lisa” (name changed). She refused to give more than a one-word answer. In fact, throughout
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Twelve children, ages 4 through 11. Some of them understood the theology and church history behind the Protestant Reformation, while others had never heard the story of Noah before. And two of them didn’t understand a word of English. It was these two who caught the eye of the Sunday school teacher as they sat
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I’ve been worried about Clay (name changed), a five-year-old boy, I teach weekly. His father is not saved, and Clay learned a lot of his attitude toward God and the Bible from his father. It was problematic enough that every time his mother dropped him off, he threw a full-fledged temper tantrum. During
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A lot of things happen at a Good News Club—games, stories, snacks, Bible lessons, memory verses, songs, and so much more. But, the programming aside, something very important happens at these after-school programs—lives are changed. Giabella and her identical twin sister Layla are two seven-year-old girls that attend one of our Good News...
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He couldn’t concentrate, ran around non-stop, and refused to stop coming back to talk to me at the end of class. “I want to learn about God,” Jordan (name changed) would say, each time I gave a Gospel invitation and he came back. Each week this happened, I explained the Gospel and asked him questions… Jordan
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“I’ve prayed before,” 11-year-old Raphael asserted. “My dad was in Afghanistan and I was praying for him and he got shot three times but he never died.” I tried not to look surprised, as I remembered all over again (as if I had forgotten!) that the children I teach on a weekly basis have tremendously
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