Do your kids or the kids you teach in church participate in sports or have a favorite athletic activity? If so, you have an excellent opportunity to help kids understand their own spiritual health and promote a healthy spiritual diet of devotions for kids. Anyone who is athletic and wants Read more
How did you get involved with your local church? Maybe you grew up going to Sunday school there or a friend invited you. Or maybe you got involved because you found your church online or through a church event. Churches tend to focus their evangelism outreach on adults in an Read more
Are you concerned that your child’s faith and values will be negatively impacted in a public school? You are not alone. However, the Bible encourages us not to see your child’s public school as a battlefield, but rather a garden where we can daily plant the seeds of love and Read more
Children love to hear stories. From bedtime, to bath time, to every in-between time, stories entertain and spark imagination. And what better story to teach kids than the story of the Gospel and God’s work throughout history? Thankfully, Bible story books are everywhere, while it’s amazing how the plan of Read more
Does your church struggle to have enough teachers for Sunday School or children’s church? Do the same people do it all the time and eventually get burned out? When people are approached to help, do they say “that’s not my gift” or look panicked and guilty, only agreeing to help Read more
Do you wonder if your children are going to make it through some of the difficult tests life will throw at them? Every parent and caretaker wants to protect their children from the hazards of the world, but preparing kids for challenges often means we have to teach them how Read more
When it comes to teaching children about salvation by grace, there are many wonderful things about being God’s child, but perhaps the most wonderful is this truth: Christ loves us so much He gives us God’s gift of salvation, even when we don’t deserve it. What a wonderful thing to Read more
Earlier this summer CEF Greater Richmond chapter conducted CYIA training preparing the next generation for spreading the Gospel message. Greater Richmond Local Coordinator Jennifer Trainham taught about how to minister to little kids and what their conditions might be. We had a great group of teens at CYIA this year; Read more
CEF of Greater Richmond had been operating for many years before it officially became a chartered chapter in 1995. The chapter currently has an office located in Richmond at the Braille Circulating Library. It covers 14 counties and more than 210 public schools, and it had 30 Good News Clubs Read more
Memorizing Bible verses is an incredibly important skill for anyone to learn, especially children. In fact, we shared some of the reasons for why children should memorize simple Bible verses for kids just last week, in this article—the biggest of which being that kids can access the truth of God’s Read more