Good News for You!

We had a great time at the CEF National Conference, Good News Across America! It was fun seeing so many of our CEF family, including lots and lots of our IOTs! We enjoyed the wonderful Bible messages from Dr. Woodrow Kroll of Back to the Bible. There were also loads of great workshops on all kinds of subjects.

We had a special meeting for our IOTs. We were expecting maybe 50 or so to attend. Imagine our surprise when about 150 showed up! Yikes! I know those of you who were there enjoyed the "close" fellowship. It was good to see so many and to be able to update you on what's happening in the educational aspect of CEF ministry.

We talked about keeping up the quality of our TCE courses and giving attention to the paperwork that helps keep our records current. We talked about our new TCE Program Director, Lynne Herlein. She will be working with you as you set up courses, develop schedules and assign staff. She is your "go-to" person when you need advice or have questions.

We talked about our blog--and invited those who haven't been to the Cafe to drop in for a visit. I see in our guestbook that some have done that! We also talked about the exciting upcoming launch of CMI online! Starting in September, some audio/PowerPoint classes will be offered. Later in the fall there will be a demo course that will involve assignments. All of this will help us get the bugs out of the system before we launch TCE Level 1 in January 2008. You'll be hearing lots more about all of this in coming days, so stay tuned!

Undoubtedly, the biggest excitement for our instructors was the new training CD called Good News for Children's Spiritual Formation. This CD contains 14 brand new training subjects you can use in a variety of ways. There are timely topics like teaching apologetics to kids, helping children live biblical lives in an unbiblical world, answering kids' tough questions and lots more. Each session has instructor notes, student notes and variety of visual aids, including PowerPoint and transparency masters. In addition, there are schedules for setting up your own training conference, promotional materials and slip sheets for notebook binders.

Besides presenting these subjects in a conference setting, you could use individual subjects in you teacher training classes or other training events. This will make a helpful supplement to your Super Seminars, as these are all new subjects.

We took 100 CDs to the conference and they went fast! Now here's the good news for you--you can get your very own copy of this CD for $50.00. Just request an order form from Pat Johann by e-mailing her at, Pat.Johann@cefonline.com.

In your blog administrator's humble opinion, this is the sharpest-looking CD we've ever done in the department of education. The notes are filled with practical and helpful ideas and the visuals are amazing! Our thanks to Pat for an outstanding job on those PowerPoints! We hope you enjoy teaching these subjects as much as we enjoyed developing them.