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...