Investing Time, Impacting Eternity
There is great need for individuals, couples, families, and church groups to help in the mission of reaching children with the Gospel. Volunteering with CEF® is a great way to use your gifts and talents to help fulfill the Great Commission. The tasks are varied and the needs are many, so we hope you will choose to learn more about how you can invest your time and impact eternity. We have a passion for serving and strengthening the local church through the training of believers who desire to reach their community.
Available Training
Child Evangelism Fellowship® is a willing and specialized partner in reaching the children in YOUR communities. CEF of North Alabama offers many opportunities through out the year to plug into ministry and receive training that leads to confident and effective ministry in a variety of settings. Whether you are seeking to volunteer in Good News Club® or Summer Missions, you want to optimize your church’s impact or strengthen your skills in a Sunday School and other teaching environment, CEF® can help!
More information about trainings can be found by under the Good News Club Section under Training Options. You can also click here to go to Training Options now.
If you are serious about reaching children, you need…
Serious Training
The goal of the Teaching Children Effectively® (TCE™) courses is to produce ministry practitioners who not only have the intellectual know-how to minister to children but who can actually “do ministry.” TCE™ courses are offered periodically, in a class setting or online.
Teaching Children Effectively, Level 1
TCE™ Level 1 is designed to offer a fresh approach to evangelizing and teaching children. Based on spiritual and educational principles, the course provides the methods and procedures to lead children to Christ and immediately equips the believer to begin and sustain a ministry where he lives. Student practicums are a vital part of the instructional procedure which makes TCE™ a refreshing way to train Christians in child evangelism.
Our Teacher Trainer, Kathryn, is certified to teach this course locally in person or over Zoom!
This Course is also available online at CEF’s Children’s Ministries Institute. (Click here to find out more.)
Teaching Children Effectively, Level 2
TCE™ Level 2 has been designed to enable you to effectively guide the saved child in his walk with the Lord. Based on spiritual and educational principles, the course builds on those things learned in level 1 and provides practical methods for discipling boys and girls. Although the focus of TCE™ level 2 is on the saved child, a strong evangelistic emphasis is also presented. Student practicums continue to be a vital part of the instructional process.
Our Teacher Trainer, Kathryn, is certified to teach this course locally in person or over Zoom!
This Course is also available online at CEF’s Children’s Ministries Institute. (Click here to find out more.)
Required Forms and Steps to Volunteer
**The forms on our website are only for volunteers in North AL counties: Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Winston. Please contact statedirector@cefalabama.com if you are from another county and are interested in volunteering.
Steps for New Volunteers:
Application options: online or download a fillable PDF to email us at nal.gnc@cefalabama.com.
Online application and background check
Fillable PDF application and background check
View Child Protection Policy Video
Contact us at nal.gnc@cefalabama.com or 256-353-3139 for more information!
Steps for Returning Volunteers:
Re-screen application options: online or download a fillable PDF to email us at nal.gnc@cefalabama.com.
Fillable PDF Re-screen Application*
*This form required 5 years after the previous background check, OR if you have turned 18 since your last application, OR if you have NOT actively served in the last calendar year or more.
View Child Protection Policy Video
Steps for Continuing Volunteers annually:
This is for volunteers who have actively served in the last calendar year and do not need the 5-year re-screening.
Fillable PDF Ministry Compliance & Doctrinal Policy Agreement to email us at nal.gnc@cefalabama.
