Opportunities to serve abound at Child Evangelism Fellowship headquarters in Missouri as well as in CEF chapters around the world
For Immediate Release
December 2, 2024
ST. LOUIS — Volunteers have served alongside Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) staff since its launch in 1937. Today, volunteers are helping CEF reach children, youth, and adults in the United States and in countries around the world.
“Volunteers are crucial to our worldwide commitment to sharing the Gospel with children,” says CEF Acting Vice President of Administration Fred Pry. “They are investing time — and impacting eternity.”
Every day, volunteers from across the United States and around the world share the Gospel to further the ministry’s mission to reach Every Child, Every Nation, Every Day! Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of volunteers serve in a Good News Club® or other CEF ministries, such as a Christmas Party Club™, sharing the message of Jesus Christ and the Gospel with children in their communities.
“CEF volunteers make it possible for Good News Club, 5-Day Club®, Christmas Party Club and many other areas of our ministry to proclaim the Gospel to children,” Pry said.
Volunteer opportunities are available in CEF chapters around the world. In fact, CEF has active volunteer work underway in over 90% of the world’s countries.
How volunteers serve CEF
There are many ways Christians can invest their time and talent to reach boys and girls with the Gospel. The vast majority of CEF volunteers are Good News Club teachers and helpers in their local communities. Still others serve in other capacities with the ministry, such as providing technology support, answering phones and helping with mailings in local CEF offices.
There is a great need for individuals, couples and church groups to help in the mission of CEF to reach children with the Gospel. Volunteering at CEF is an excellent way for Christians to use their gifts and talents to help fulfill the Great Commission.
CEF volunteers see the importance of working with children in their communities
As a high school student, CEF volunteer and future major league baseball player, Bradley Blalock, understood the importance of sharing his time and sharing the Gospel with children in his community. By attending a Good News Club as a child, Bradley was able to build a relationship with God and accept Jesus as his Savior. Saved in that club, as time went on, Bradly felt empowered to become a small group leader in the club and make a difference in the lives of children, helping them understand the Gospel and choose new life in Christ. Even while being scouted as a high school ball player, Bradley would skip baseball practice to help lead a Good News Club.
Benefits of CEF training for church volunteers
Equipping volunteers for children’s ministry with CEF means more people participating to reach children with the Gospel. These trained volunteers will also be more capable, confident and joyful as they help children grow in their faith, whether in a CEF ministry or in their local church. They understand how better to share the Gospel and disciple anyone in their sphere of influence, not just children. When children are tangibly growing in their faith through children’s ministry, parents are more likely to attend and stay rooted in their church.
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF), which was founded 87 years ago, has been establishing the Good News Club® in countries around the world for decades. Clubs are thriving worldwide, in countries including Australia, Cambodia, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Uganda and many more.
In 2023, through the combined ministries of CEF, more than 25.2 million children worldwide heard the Good News. More than 577,000 teachers were trained around the world.
For more CEF news, see the ministry’s latest edition of the online magazine Impact.
Child Evangelism Fellowship is an international, nonprofit, Christian ministry that has been dedicated to seeing every child reached with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, discipled and established in a local church since 1937. CEF is located in all 50 American states and in most countries around the world, with over 3,500 paid staff and tens of thousands of volunteers around the world.
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To interview a representative from Child Evangelism Fellowship, contact [email protected], Beth Bogucki, 610.584.1096, ext. 105, or Daniel Moyer, ext. 104.