Child Evangelism Fellowship of North San Diego County
Praise & Prayer Bulletin 12.22.08
TEACHERS
FORUM, Jan 10 & 12
Our next equipping
sessions for Good News Club volunteers (and anyone else who'd
like to come!) are right around the corner.
We'll be covering our
third lesson series, Esther, and getting ready
to bring valuable truths from this book to the kids of North
County.
All Good News
Club team members (especially those who will be teaching) should
be there! (Click here & scroll down for details on
the Esther lessons: http://cefkids.com/lessons)
Please join us
from 9:00 to 11:30am on Saturday, Jan 10 (Escondido) OR Monday,
Jan 12 (Carlsbad). Click here for more info, the schedule, and
maps: http://cefkids.com/TeachersForum
Extra
Workshops Jan 10!
Our Escondido
session will be extended with valuable workshops you requested in
our recent survey. Come to one, two, or all three.
11:30-12:00:
Introduction
to our new Middle School club ministry. Find
out what it's all about and help spread the word!
12:00-12:30:
Lunch Break (Please bring your own & we'll dine
together.)
12:30-1:15:
Leading
a Child to Christ
1:20-2:00:
Counseling
a Child for Salvation
........For more information,
please call 760-480-4191
PRAISE
REPORTS
PRAISE God
that the Vista school district has expedited our application for
a Good News Club to start Jan 15. A Vista church had brought
together a team of seven servants to reach the kids in a local
school, but our application for Foothill Oak was denied by the
school. Rather than delaying the start of the club with what
would have been a lengthy appeal process to the school board, we
decided to apply for another school instead -- Temple Heights
Elementary. Everything went though in two days, we were given use
of the library, and all is set to start after the new year!
(Please be in prayer for the team of volunteers, all of whom are
new to Good News Clubs.)
PRAISE
the Lord for an invitation to speak to the Korean Women's Bible
Study group on Wednesday morning. More than 50 women from all
over North County came together for prayer, worship, and
fellowship. They heard (in both English and Korean) about
Good News Clubs in the public schools, then learned how to
present the Gospel to kids using bracelets with beads the colors
of the Wordless Book. In the photo above they're practicing
telling the message to one another with the bracelets they've
just made. They also learned about our Tel-A-Story and Mailbox
Club ministries and the resources for kids on our website.
Twenty-five signed up to receive the Praise & Prayer Bulletin
and said they'd be praying for the needs of the ministry. After
the meeting we feasted on a pot-luck lunch of dozens of
delectable Korean delicacies.
PRAYER
NEEDS
PRAY that we would be granted approval for our first
middle school club in North County! This past week we submitted
our application for a "Teen GNC" club at Del Dios
Middle School in Escondido. (Praise God for two Christian
teachers at the school who volunteered use of their rooms for the
club!) Please pray that the school district and principal will be
favorably disposed, and that the application could be approved in
time for the club to start in January. Pray for the Escondido
church which will be sponsoring the club and for their youth
pastor as he brings a team together to launch this new outreach
to a needy age group.
PRAY with
our Reidy Creek School GNC team as they ask the Lord to bring a
male volunteer to join the team who would add a needed masculine
dimension to the club leadership and serve as a godly role model,
especially for the boys.
PRAY
for our EIGHT after-school GNCs approved to start in January! The
teams are scrambling to get everything done during this busy
end-of-year time. Please be in prayer for all these teams and the
many brand-new volunteers who are committing their time and hard
work so that kids in the public schools will have the opportunity
to meet the Savior and learn to follow Him. Please take a few
moments to pray for each team (and the additional helpers many of
them need), each school, and the 5,163 young lives represented
(students as of 2007-08 in green):
Ada
Harris (Cardiff) 355 children
Bonsall
Elementary (Bonsall) 834 children
Glen
View (Escondido) 771 children
Lincoln
(Escondido) 576 children
LR
Green (Escondido) 777 children
Reidy
Creek (Escondido) 708 children
Solana
Highlands (Solana Beach) 524 children
Temple
Heights (Vista) 618 children
..."Let
the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of
such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does
not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means
enter it." And He took them up in His arms, put His hands on
them, and blessed them. --Mark 10:14-16
In the
fellowship of our Lord,
Robert Burkley
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Fellowship of North San Diego County
PO Box 267, Escondido, CA 92033
760-480-4191 email: cefnorth@hotmail.com
website: cefkids.com
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more about our primary ministry of reaching kids in the public
schools through after-school Good News Clubs, please click to
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