Child Evangelism Fellowship

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Child Evangelism Fellowship
Type of Company	501(c)3 non-profit religious
Founded	1937
Headquarters	Warrenton, Missouri, USA
Key people	Mr. Reese Kauffman, Chairman & President Mr. Jesse Irvin Overholtzer, Founder
Slogan	Reaching children worldwide
Website	www.cefonline.com

Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is an international evangelical organization founded by Jesse Overholtzer in 1937, headquartered in Warrenton, Missouri, whose purpose is to teach the Gospel to boys and girls and to get them involved in local Christian churches. The organization has programs established in all 50 states and 150 countries around the world, with 700 full-time workers and an estimated 40,000 volunteers in the USA and Canada, and over 1,200 missionaries overseas, approximately 1,000 of whom are nationals.

The two programs most identified with the organization are 5-Day Clubs and Good News Clubs, which take place in neighborhood settings. Additionally, CEF has fair, camping, open-air, telephone and correspondence outreach programs for children, and provides classes to train their workers and other Christians who are burdened for evangelizing children.

CEF Press produces and distributes Bible and missionary lessons and related materials for use in teaching children to help accomplish the goals of the ministry. They also publish a bimonthly magazine which offers instruction, teaching tools and inspiration for children's workers called Teach Kids.

This is a nonprofit organization . Contributions to it are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

[edit] External links

• CEF official website