Child Evangelism
Interested in how to teach children about the gospel?
The CEF conference started today.
It begins again tomorrow at 8am with breakfast
April 22-23, 2016
Friday, April 22
5:30-6:30 Meal and Registration
6:30-6:45 Welcome/Introductions/Conference Information
6:45-7:15 The Spiritual Condition of Children
7:15-8:15 Guiding the Child to the Savior (Part 1)
Saturday, April 23
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast
8:45-10:00 Guiding the Child to the Savior (Part 2)
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-11:15 Breakout Sessions: (choose one session to attend)
1. Managing Your Classroom
2. Gourmet Food for the Soul
11:15-12:15 Developing the Child’s Biblical Worldview
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:20 Kaboom! Active Learning in the Classroom (Part 1)
2:20-2:30 BREAK
2:30-3:20 Kaboom! Active Learning in the Classroom (Part 2)
3:20-3:30 Closing
Description of the teaching sessions that will be offered at the conference:
The Spiritual Condition of Children
Is it really necessary to share the good news of Jesus with the children? Can’t we just teach them how to be like Jesus? These questions (among others) will be answered in this session as we look at how God sees each child.
Guiding the Child to the Savior
This session will take you step by step through the process of sharing the Gospel with children (or anyone) in a simple yet effective way. Learn how to use simple object lessons, pictures and symbols to present the Good News of the Gospel with the children you teach.
Managing Your Classroom (Dynamics of Discipline)
Are you able to manage the children you teach or do they “manage” you? Since classroom discipline is training, not punishing, this session will take a look at how to properly “manage” your classroom and you will receive lots of ideas and tools to help in this process.
Gourmet Food for the Soul (Growing through God’s Word)
Is your children’s ministry producing spiritually mature kids? Learn how to transform children into spiritual champions by helping them establish the habit of spending time with God each day.
Developing the Child’s Biblical Worldview
A worldview includes values, morals, attitudes and belief systems. Since the world has come to our doorstep, children today are being influenced by other religions and cultures. The Bible is the framework from which to view life and see the world. This session offers helps in establishing a biblical worldview in the children you teach.
Kaboom! Active Learning in the Classroom
Every aspect of the class hour should be exciting yet should involve the total child (mind, heart and will) in the learning process. This session will explode with object lessons, games, learning activities and review ideas for every part of the class hour that will involve the total child in the teaching process.
Your Instructors Will Be:
Tim and Lisa Deam
im and Lisa Deam have been involved in children’s ministry since 1982. Before joining the department of education staff at Child Evangelism Fellowship® World Headquarters in 1997, they were CEF® directors and state teacher trainers in Indiana. Over the years they have gained a wealth of experience in teaching children as well as training children’s workers. The Deams are faculty members at the Children’s Ministries Institute® in Warrenton, Missouri where they train others as well as teach kids in a weekly after-school Good News Club® at the Wright City West Elementary School. They have traveled to the Caribbean to conduct teacher training and have made four trips to India to train CEF workers and help the nationals conduct the Children’s Ministries Institute.
Tim and Bonnie Hickman
Tim attended Prairie Bible Institute (Alberta, Canada) and Moody Bible Institute (Chicago, Illinois). He has a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Denver University. He taught special education in the public schools of Colorado and Wyoming for 8 years. He is currently attending a Southern Baptist Seminary extension school in Casper, WY. He and Bonnie both completed the Children’s Ministries Institute at the Child Evangelism headquarters in Warrenton, Missouri in 1995. He has been in the CEF ministry now for over 20 years, starting as a local director in Northwest Wyoming. He is currently the State Director of Wyoming and the District Director of the Mountain States area which includes Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.
Bonnie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Christian Education from Moody Bible Institute. She and Tim meet at Moody and married in 1975. They have 5 children, 2 of which are adopted special needs children from Asia. They have 5 grandchildren. Bonnie has worked alongside Tim in the CEF work throughout the past 20 years.
For More Information about CEF please visit:
· http://www.cefonline.com (general CEF website)
· http://www.cefcmi.com (the CEF training institute)
· http://www.online.cefcmi.com (online training-some courses are free, some cost and are part of our 12-week CMI certificate program)
For More Information about the Deams, please visit their personal site:
· http://www.thedeamteam.com
