Kids often express big emotions—fear, worry, sadness—and it can be hard to know how to respond. This piece offers five practical ways to comfort children while gently guiding them toward the ultimate source of lasting comfort: a relationship with God. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or caregiver, these ideas are meant to help you support kids emotionally and spiritually when they need it most.
The harvest is plentiful. Child Evangelism Fellowship serves one of the largest mission fields in the world — children. Children make up 25 percent of the eight billion people on the planet. CEF workers have certainly seen that the harvest is plentiful.
Last year, our workers counseled over nine million children for salvation, but it is not enough! There are still vast areas of this world where the name of Jesus is not known.
How many activities do you have planned for your family? I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel way too rushed trying to get from one activity to the next. I barely have time to think. But do we realize that the way we manage and schedule our time and our kid’s time teaches children what’s worth making time for? We want to show kids that it’s a priority to take time to serve God.
People are skeptical that very young children can truly have adequate faith and wonder if we should focus on those who have greater understanding.
Can a very young child truly be saved and on his way to Heaven? Can he be in the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, one of those who is a genuine believer?
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) partners with CRU CO-OP to provide CEF Wonder Devotional Books to fathers and their children through the Fathers’ 3-10 Initiative.
The Bible tells us in Romans 10:15, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Did you know even children can have beautiful feet? They can understand the life-changing power the Good News of Jesus brings and be passionate to share it.