CEF Student Ministries

Urban Student Scholarship Fund 
                 The Rebecca Sims Memorial
This fund benefits college and high school students working with CEF as local staff interns, summer urban workers, and international missionaries.  Funds received will meet their necessary travel, living, and mission expenses. Contributions are tax-deductible when given to CEF Durham by mail at the address below or by clicking on the donation button. Please designate this contribution: 
                                 Urban Student Fund or Sims Fund

Internships provided for students, mission teams, and ministers
 It now strikes me as astounding that I lived an entire nine months in Durham without truly seeing or appreciating the city. When I began my freshman year at Duke, I rarely left campus and knew almost no members of the community besides other undergraduates. However, I felt God encouraging me to form a relationship with the Durham community and allow myself to serve and learn from the city’s residents. I applied for a summer internship with PathWays, a Duke Chapel program, and was paired me with Child Evangelism Fellowship. I spent time at their urban boot camp and with wonderful kids at 5-Day Clubs. It enabled me to witness firsthand the ways in which God is moving in the lives of the children of Durham and allowed me to better grasp the magnitude and tenderness of His love for them. I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to see and be a part of God’s transformation of this city.
                                                                                               — Hillary (Hilly) Martinez   Duke ‘13

International and urban missions opportunities
  Plans will be developed each year through 2014 for students from North Carolina and the USA to have an opportunity to minister in Honduras, Malawi, an urban USA city or beyond where CEF Durham has a ministry partnership.  Approved students can work with school clubs, sports outreach, evangelism, and discipleship efforts for 2-4 weeks in urban communities across America and other countries.  Students will receive basic, advanced, and urban training before traveling to their mission assignment.  Applications are accepted year-round.  Sites for consideration through 2014 are: Washington DC, Chicago, Jackson, MS, Malawi (Southeast Africa), and Honduras.

   
    Urban missionaries in Durham at boot camp              Student Thunder missions team to Honduras 

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Summer Ministries 2011
  5-Day Clubs, community-wide evangelistic events, and service projects highlighted ministry this summer. Students and leaders, both out-of-state and locally, filled five weeks of direct ministry, training, and service in under resourced communities of Durham.

   
Cross-cultural 5-Day Clubs, multiple community-wide outdoor party events &  community service projects.

CEF friend djfam.net featured a dance off with community youth at the Bless Cornwallis event July 30th.

Urban boot camp 2012
  This urban ministry experience is offered to those engaged in various urban-type ministries. The current schedule for urban boot camp training and mission outreach will be held in Durham featuring a variety of sessions. 2012 boot camp dates: Jan. 4-6, Mar. 8-11, May TBA and July 8-14.

  2012 Application/boot camp information and online
  Registration available for 2012 urban boot camp