If you walked towards one particular North Side Chicago Public School, you may marvel at the pillars and architecture that first went into the construction of this school. As you entered the institution of learning you would see the nice, new, clean walls standing around you that were built as a part of the recent addition. You
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The church sits in the middle of the neighborhood, a beacon of light to a world of darkness. Generations have come through the doors of the building, finding new life in Christ. This church body has been faithful to reach the children in their community with the Gospel through an annual 5-Day Club (pictured above).
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Three-year-olds are the epitome of energy and innocence. Questioning everything, they look at the world around them with wide eyes, taking everything in as they discover the world around them. Imagine being three years old at a park late at night, when suddenly your face is wet with your own blood from a glancing gunshot.
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While not written by our CEF staff, the following article embodies some of the reasons we are so passionate to reach children with the Gospel. We work hard to talk to children in their own “special language,” and this article is a great example of “Children-ese.” In nine years I have been graced with three
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She was 6 years old, and at the end of the Bible lesson during 5-Day Club, she came up to tell me she needed Jesus to help her with her sin problem. As I asked her questions about the gospel, she answered every question correctly and prayed using her own words. “Please take away my
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Dear Chicago Child Evangelism Fellowship, On behalf of the Chicago CEF missionary staff, I want to welcome you to your new blog (a blog is an online journal). You may be wondering why you are addressed as the Chicago Child Evangelism Fellowship. It is because CEF is a fellowship of people united by a common goal;
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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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