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Benefits of Partnering with CEF of Indiana, Inc.:

  • Provides a fun and impactful way to mobilize church members of all ages for missionary outreach opportunities in your community.
  • Gives your church visibility in the community and among other churches.
  • Builds trust and relationships with unchurched children and families.
  • Establishes a safe haven for unchurched families—giving them somewhere to turn when needs arise or when they are looking for a church to attend. 
  • Helps your congregation maintain a vision for lost souls through verbal reports, sharing prayer needs and praises, and bulletin inserts regarding club activities and testimonies.
  • Trains and develops new volunteer workers not only for your Good News Club but for your church’s children’s ministry and mission teams.
  • Increases the outreach of your children’s ministry program.
  • Provides contact with new families (of Good News Club participants), whom you can invite to special church activities.
  • Facilitates the spiritual maturity and leadership growth of team members through their ministry involvement in neighborhoods and schools.
  • Leads to church growth.
  • Allows your church to be a blessing to children, their school(s), your community, and the nation!
CEF of Indiana, Inc. North Central Indiana Responsibility:
  1. Creates the bridge between your church and the school.
  2. Provides the school with legal documents.
  3. Provides required yearly training and background checks for the GNC team members.
  4. Provides a $3 million liability insurance policy for all volunteers.
  5. Provides a year’s GNC curriculum and summer resources.
  6. Provides opportunities for continuing education, some for possible college credit (TCE).
  7. Provides six-week “series” trainings and workshops in some chapters
  8. Provides ongoing communication and support for the GNC team.
  9. Provides a professional GNC banner/sign for school open houses (when in accordance with school policy, a registration booth/table may be set up to recruit children to join the club).
Church Responsibility:​
  1. Provides committee teachers & willing volunteers
  2. Provides follow up for the children
  3. Provides a church home for the children and families of the Good News Club and 5-Day Club.
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​Volunteers must submit to CEF's volunteer application and screening process as well as fulfill the training requirements
Contact our local office to meet with our local coordinator to find out how your church can begin an after school Good News Club.