Our Children for Christ or the World
I t is a cold, clear-cut statistical fact that children respond to the claims of Christ far more readily than adults. But it is also true that young sters respond readily to the claims of the world. Dr. Martha M. Eliot of the United States Children’s Bu reau says, “We have over a million known juvenile delinquents in the United States and we expect another half-million in the next eight years.” This rising juvenile delinquency makes child-conversion acutely im portant. One group that has been doing a major work in this field is
Child Evangelism Fellowship, a 16- year-old organization with interna tional headquarters in Pacific Pali sades, Calif. The first week in November has been set aside across the nation as National Child Evangelism Fellow ship Week. The week will be marked by min isters and CEF directors preaching in churches on the subject of win ning children to Christ. Special chil dren’s rallies will be held. Tracts on how to win children will be dis tributed. Special exhibitions of The
Wordless Book and visual methods of working with children will be held. Radio programs will present the challenge of child evangelism. Child Evangelism Fellowship has over 551 directors in cities in the United States and Canada. There are 3 thousand known towns with Good News Clubs, besides others with no official connection with the Fel lowship. Good News Clubs are Bible classes held on week days in private homes. Classes vary from a small group of neighborhood children to entire schools of hundreds. END.
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