In-Person GNC Training: QuickStart and Advanced Bible Lesson Training Our annual fall training session for Good News Club® teachers and other volunteers is scheduled for September 25, 2021 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church at 1004 Yorktown Rd. in Yorktown, VA. This training session will draw Read more…
There is Another Harvest Choosing pumpkins, picking apples, running through corn mazes, jumping in piles of colored leaves… Experiencing the splendor and bounty of fall with children is so much fun! Their eyes grow big at the sight of sooo many pumpkins of every shape and size. The littlest one Read more…
Good News Club Training “Who needs training anyway? I already know all the Bible stories and have been teaching Sunday School for 10 years.” That is what I was thinking when my pastor “strongly suggested” that all Sunday School workers attend a training from a CEF staffer, a friend of Read more…
Our Amazing, Surprising God! What a perfect setting, the high hills of Virginia, to inspire a group of teens, but just not them – all of us. Yes! That’s our God, inspiring, pushing us all on to a cause so great we can’t do it ourselves. Then it’s really His Read more…
Christian Youth in Action® Summer 2019 a Success Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF®) of Peninsula participated in the Christian Youth in Action® (CYIA®) camp this summer held June 16th–22nd at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center in Lynchburg for Virginia teens (and adults too). We had over 37 teens and 2 adults Read more…
CEF of VA Christian Youth in Action Training “Lydia was 14 years old when she picked up a brochure from a ministry she’d barely heard of called Child Evangelism Fellowship. This brochure, unlike many other ministry brochures, captured her young imagination and she knew, ‘God wants me to do Read more…
Why CEF is Important to Me What is so special about CEF training? This testimony comes from Carol Smith, who is currently serving on our CEF of Peninsula staff as Chapter Prayer Coordinator and GNC Area Coordinator for Newport News/Hampton. The Lord deepened Carol’s love for Him and desire to Read more…
CEF® of Peninsula participated in Christian Youth in Action® (CYIA™) training in Kingston Jamaica for two weeks July 9th to the 20th! The first week the mission team led the intensive CYIA training and the second week Jamaican CYIA students taught 5-Day Clubs for the area children, sharing what they Read more…
Our family values are easily seen by outsiders. The choices and actions of parents declare what they hold most dear – God, family, truthfulness, kindness, faith, and integrity, for example. Children learn what they experience at home; friends and neighbors are watching, too. In the same way, an organization is Read more…
Nine enthusiastic teenagers from the Newport News area gathered in the home of Dianne Tate on May 12th for Christian Youth in Action® (CYIA™) Pre-Training. CEF of Peninsula’s teens usually attend the Pre-training provided by CEF® of Greater Richmond, but due to scheduling conflicts, our Chapter training team of Judy Read more…