We Love to Get Messages Like This One!

The subject line read, “THERE ARE NO WORDS!” But we’re thankful this Club Leader found a few words to share with us. “God gave us the best day we’ve ever had in Good News Club since COVID. Twenty-seven beautiful children showed up and...

Jesus is Even Better Than Ice Cream — GNC at Lionheart Celina

It started with an Ice Cream Party Club in July, and it just keeps getting better. Who knew anything would be better than ice cream? Evangelism…. The children at Lionheart Celina at FBC Celina had fun when CEF brought them an Ice Cream Party Club in July. They enjoyed...

Good News at Good — Beth Banning

During our Spring semester of Good News Club at Good Elementary, a little girl named Charlotte joined our club and she loved it! She was so excited about it, she went home and told her mom. After weeks of hearing about Good News Club, her mom got in touch with me to...

Ice Cream and Jesus in North Texas — Susan Moore

What a summer we are having at CEF Dallas with our Ice Cream Party Clubs! We have traveled  to daycares and Boys and Girls clubs in Grand Prairie, Allen, Plano, Dallas, Carrollton, Garland,  Richardson, Mesquite, Frisco, and Coppell!  At each location staff and...

Neighborhood Bible Clubs Train Teens — Warren Bird

Neighborhood Bible Clubs (NBC) are a 5 Day Club led by youth with 8-10 hours of training scheduled at a time convenient for the trainees.  NBC is a church-wide outreach requiring youth to serve as teachers, other church members to host NBC locations, provide supplies...

Director’s Update – May 2021

Greetings and blessings friends, We pray this past month you have experienced the resurrection blessings of our LORD, as we celebrated Easter Sunday and we see the new life of Spring bursting forth again. I have been thinking a lot about the resurrection this month....

HOW ONE CHURCH STAYED ON MISSION THROUGH COVID

,Churches across the U.S. were hit hard because of Covid-19. A year ago March 2020, when the “Shelter at Home” orders were issued, churches closed their doors and ministry stopped for many. Rick Warren recently observed, “COVID revealed a fundamental weakness in the...

Easter Reflections in a Covid-19 World

Large Palm Sunday we recognized Jesus’ triumphal entrance into Jerusalem. But as we know, the story quickly turns from triumph to apparent tragedy, or so it seemed at the time. Every Holy Week should lead us to reflect upon Jesus’ trial, crucifixion, brutal...

Pastors Coronavirus Response Toolkit

(Also check out our Coronavirus Response page)  These are certainly different, and for many difficult, times which call for creative ideas to respond in Gospel love. At CEF Dallas. we are taking a number of different measures as we continue our mission of spreading...