T he boy pictured on this month’s cover and on this page is a Jewish lad. On a Saturday he and a half dozen other neighborhood children gather for a Bible club class on the front steps of a big rambling house in Los Angeles. When asked what song he wanted to sing the Jewish boy said, “The one about Jesus where we clap our hands.” Across United States and Canada some 25,000 such classes are meet ing each week under the leadership of International Child Evangelism Fellowship of Pacific Palisades, Calif. Founded 16 years ago by J. Irvin Overholtzer, the Fellowship now reaches around the world with 135 missionaries on the field. The Fellowship’ s literature is printed in 21 languages. The Child Evangelism plan is simple: Reach the unevangelized child for Christ. According to recent figures two out of three youngsters in the U.S. and Canada are not in any Sunday school. The Child Evangel ism program calls for weekday Bible classes held in neighborhood homes. The classes last about an hour, consist of songs and Bible stories that are told with the help of visual aid board and cutouts. The children are always urged to attend the nearest evangelical Sunday school and church. To insure adequately trained teachers the Fellowship conducts teacher- training classes across the nation plus a special Child Evangelism Insti tute held at the headquarters in Pacific Palisades. MORE ►
rea ching our children for CHRIST
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