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CEF and Club Invention Updates
February 7, 2007
I have a little more information on Club Invention and alot
more information on the CEF Opportunity.
Club Inventions:
If we can get it together fast enough, we will start one
Club Invention on Tuesday afternoons, starting March 6, and
the second one starting on Tuesday, April 3. If you are
not familiar with Club Invention, you are in for a real
treat. They are a wonderful science/invention series aimed
at students in Grades 1 - 6. We did 2 4-week sessions last
spring and throughly enjoyed them. I will send more
details on those as soon as possible.
CEF Training for Teens:
Thursday, 15 February at 7:00 p.m. we will be holding an
information meeting about CEF at Creative Learning
Connection. If you and/or your teen would like more
information on CEF and this opportunity, this would be a
great way to find out more. This is strictly an
information meeting, there is no obligation. Please RSVP
by next Monday, so we have an idea how many to expect.
The Northeast Alabama chapter of Child Evangelism
Fellowship, Inc., also known as "CEF", has opportunities
for teens to be summer missionaries. The teens teach 5-Day
Clubs to unchurched children in this area in order to
explain the gospel to them. Teens are taught how to teach
Bible lessons using visuals and use changes in their voice
and gestures to make the Bible characters come alive. The 9
days of training to prepare them is so intense, that this
should count, in my opinion, as credit for some of their
school work, such as a Speech Communications class. Many of
the principles they learn will be the same as a Speech
class, teaching them:
- how to give a good Introduction to capture the children's
interest and how to keep interest with motions, gestures,
acting-out portions, and using voice qualities to add
excitement or help children imagine the feelings of the
characters or imagine the characters talking
- how to present the visualized song, memory verse, or
Bible lesson, including how to turn pages on visuals
without blocking the children's view
- how to explain words and concepts
- how to link out of the progression of events in the Bible
and apply a gospel or Christian growth point to the child's
life and how to link from the application back into the
events in the Bible passage
- how to tell the gospel using the Wordless Book, including
saying verses teens memorize
- how to counsel children for trusting Christ, including
asking open-ended questions to check the child's
understanding
The directors and other staff of 8 chapters of CEF in
Alabama meet in Montgomery with the teens to train and
coach them to present the gospel to children in a way
children can understand. Ther training includes
coursework, lectures, short essays, tests, and practicums,
including:
- actually team-teaching a 5-Day Club while there in
Montgomery, perhaps at a day-care or Boys and Girls Club
- actually sharing the gospel with children using a
Wordless Book which is a book of colored pages used as an
outline and point of curiosity to get children's focus.
This sharing is likely to be at a Y.M.C.A.
We typically expect teens to teach 5 weeks in June and
July, usually three 5-Day Clubs a week, most often at 9
a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 1:00 p.m. There are some, such as a
church, asking us to conduct 5-Day Clubs at night, so that
their church members who work can be involved and use it as
a Vacation Bible School to attract neighborhood children.
RSVP to Cathy at cmmjaime@alum.mit.edu or 256-325-3305.
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