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State Board Chair's passing
CEF NC State Board Chairman Charles Barber went to be with our Lord Jan. 2012. Please pray for Mrs Faye Barber, Charlie's wife, their children, and the extended family.

Dr. John Perkins surgery
"... in December was successful, no thyroid cancer found, he was released from hospital before Christmas..." John Perkins has been resting at home with his family in Jackson, MS. However, he was admitted Jan. 20, 2012 to hospital for abdominal pains.

Local city kid requests
“If we didn't have a Good News Club® here, our community would change.”
"Pray for my dad and mom, they are getting in some fights."
"Pray for our school [to] get better."
 
Current prayer requests and information on 
CEF prayer ministry (click above).


Indicators of answered prayer
“When parents teach their community Good News Club® when staff is away.”
"When city kids cry if there is no Bible lesson presented due to time."
"When club members and families become your friends and allies."
When kids keep attending club after moving out of the community."
"When visitors are impressed that CEF workers know the names of the kids."

Will you adopt your street and pray for it by name everyday?



PrayDurham

Sign up to adopt your street in prayer above and see the current needs of city kids and other requests from CEF around the world, nation, state, and Durham.

 

Events News

John Blake shares his Heart for City Kids, offers urban ministry ideas, and relevant insights to collaborating with local and national ministries for transformation of the city block by block.

Team More Than Gold
Sponsoring city kids for sports camps

        Sat. Mar. 17, 2012
More Than Gold Sportsreach is hosting a fund raising competition to sponsor 1,000 Durham city kids to go to camp this summer. Various sports and overnight camping will be offered kids who would not typically get to go to camp. $100/kid sponsorships will be received during individual and team contests held during "March Madness" the first weekend of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Tennis Academy for city kids
Tu, Th, and Sat March - May 2012 on city courts in partnership with Durham Parks & Recreation and the USTA.

Basketball Camp Downtown YMCA
M-F April 9-13, 2012 8AM-4PM for boys and girls 7-14 yrs of age with an emphasis on skills and team play.

Soccer Tourney at Duke Campus
Sat. April 14, 2012 East Campus fields
for student and adult teams - $10/fee


Testimonies

From the Community
“You guys are doing an amazing job in Durham. I never believed churches and ministries could come together like this... totally for you; I salute you.” Pastor

"Thank you for your excellent ministry to children in Durham. We honor you... We're praying for you. God bless you." Supporter


What’s good with you?
  
Encouraging news and video segments found at Brand Newz with our friend Christopher Martin.

From Around the World

"I just wanted to say that I’m so glad that God used you guys to write the song "God loves me" (7MIT).  I’m studying abroad in Thailand...
I just had the opportunity to teach that song to about 20 Buddhist kids..." Melissa  Scheffler

 

 

 Ministry to City Kids
The DURHAM AREA CHAPTER covers eight counties - Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, Person, and Vance. We have significant ministry in Alamance, Durham and Orange counties, and have developed partnerships with churches in the other five counties.  
A key ministry tactic is to conduct Good News Clubs, fun-filled sessions where the Gospel is clearly presented through stories, verses, songs, and games. Good News Clubs are scheduled as weekly events at a given location. In the summer, we typically conduct daily Bible clubs over a period of five days at multiple locations, and these are called 5-Day Clubs


Community-based and Adopt-a-school Clubs

Currently, Alamance and Orange Counties have public school-based clubs meeting weekly.  Adopt-a-school church teams are facilitating this ministry through CEF.  Private and Christian schools in Durham have a active school-based Good News Club® and JYC ministry, which is sponsored by CEF Durham.

Bible clubs, tutoring, community projects, sports activities, health & nutrition, and other types of activities round out the diversity of 80+ club activities, which annually meet in the Durham area.  The majority of these locations are in the inner city, but some are meeting in the suburbs as others meet in church-based after school programs. Over 2,500 kids are taught weekly from the Bible, the 7 Most Important Things in the World, gospel missions, personal responsibility, and how to apply all this to their own lives.  Led by CEF-trained volunteers, kids 5-14 years of age meet weekly throughout the school year.

After school programs request help with supplies

Lou Brogden finished her comments by saying, "We would ask that you pray about this and if it is possible help us to meet these needs. Thank you for considering our needs."  Contributions of supplies can be dropped off at the CEF office in the John O'Daniel Exchange building 801 Gilbert St. Durham. Financial contributions for these programs can be given online or by mail to CEF Durham.

As a result of new space provided for Butterflz at Carver Pond Apts. there is immediate need for various items: 
shelving, school supplies, folding tables, and paint for walls 


What if for 10 years?  
Durham Urban Net working toward answers


Is God powerful enough to prevent kids from joining gangs?  Does the Word of God still have answers for today's problems?  What if the Church of Durham took seriously its responsibility for taking the Gospel to city kids and youth?  What if for 10 years a collaboration of churches and ministries comprehensively served the 10 most physically and spiritually needy communities in Durham?  

These are the communities where crime and evil have dominated life for way too long; where kids are not expected to succeed.  These are the communities where the words: at-risk, under-resourced, and marginalized are experienced everyday in the lives of kids and families.  These are the communities where God has been rejected, yet screams out to be glorified! 

CEF along with several partnering ministries, a few churches, and a growing number of local Christians are focusing there efforts for 10 years upon 10 under resourced communities in Durham.  This collaborative group, while maintaining the identity of each ministry, calls itself the BlessDurham Urban Network.  A simple strategy of discipleship will be used.  CEF will offer weekly Good News Clubs, educational resources, church partnership training, and special events for each community.  Others will provide after school tutoring, creative arts, community service, development, and prayer.  Our vision is to see city kids and families transformed by the Gospel.  As disciples of Christ, they will take responsibility for the transformation of their own communities.

For this purpose, CEF disciples teens and challenges young adults to stretch their lives beyond the pursuit of happiness.  It believes in building trusting relationships with families who live within these communities; collaborates with other churches and ministries; and is willing to work in these communities beyond the next 10 years so that every community is fully resourced with the presence and blessing of God.  People will no longer perish from the lack of access and power to live a life of dignity and biblical godliness.  Here comments from Dr. John Perkins.


CEF Durham Area Chapter
P.O. Box 1288, 801 Gilbert St., Suite 205 & 207, Durham NC 27702
Phone: (919) 399-1979  Email: cefcenteroflight[@]gospeltokids.org

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