February 14, 2023

Teens, You Can Gain Ministry Experience This Summer!

February 14, 2023/ Kathryn Burleson

You can make a difference in your community. You can impact a child's life for eternity. You can gain experience in ministry while still a teen. How? By bringing the Gospel to the next generation!

Teens from around Alabama are coming together to reach the boys and girls of their communities – and YOU can be a part of this team!

Christian Youth In Action® (CYIA™) is a summer program designed to train teens and college age young adults (13-19 years old) in sharing the Gospel with those in their communities. Through this program, students gain experience in ministry as they continue to serve the Lord.

After you attend an 8-day training school, you will return to your local community and teach 5-Day Club®s at various community locations with a team.

The CYIA™ 2023 application is now available!

STEP 1: Consider serving as a CYIA missionary. Discuss with your parents. For more information or to apply, contact CEF of North AL at CEFofNAL.5dc@gmail.com or 256-353-3139.

STEP 2: Submit your application by April 21. Must be 13 or older by June 1, 2023.

STEP 3: Attend the challenging training June 3-10 at Raleigh’s Place near Clanton. You can do it in the Lord’s strength!

STEP 4: See God use you to make an eternal impact in the lives of children where you live. Teach 2 to 5 weeks of 5-Day Club®s here in the North Alabama area, alongside a team of like minded teens after training.

The application process includes a submitted application and interview that will take place with one or more of our staff members at the local office or over Zoom. The cost for the CYIA training school & the teaching materials and ways to pay for it will be discussed during the application process. (click here for app and click here for reference form)

Are you ready to take action and share the Gospel this summer?

Author, Jim Simoneau

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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.

Author, Kathryn Burleson

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.

Contact Us:

Local Coordinator: Jim Simoneau

Phone: 334-399-1733

Email: CEFofNAL@gmail.com

Mailing Address: PO Box 2034

Huntsville AL, 35804-2034

Visit our office:

2311 Market Pl SW

Suite B

Huntsville AL, 35801

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