May, 2021
Praise and Thanksgiving:
- Praise the Lord for the funds raised at our Spring Luncheon April 6.
- Lord we thank you for an amazing year teaching Good News Clubs. Even though club was different, we were blessed to meet in person at parks and churches. Praise God!!!
- Thank you for our relationships with the churches which have hosted our Good News Clubs this school year.
- Thank you Lord for the TCE1 class that is being taught by Evelyn, Isaac Hernandez and Claudia Calderon right here in Santa Barbara.
- Thank you Jesus for the anonymous donor who fixed the broken car window of a Good News Club family.
- Lord we thank you for the 2 new volunteers, Dianne Keene and Betty Larson, who are volunteering at the Roosevelt School GNC. We are so thankful for them.
- Thank you Jesus that CEF will be able to apply for a permit to teach the GNC on campus for Adams and Roosevelt School! Praise God!
Prayer Requests:
- Pray for Carpinteria GNC volunteers Sharon Otsuki, Monica Sherlock and Stepanie Ortale.
- Continue to pray for this new club.
- Pray for the leaders there and all the boys that are attending.
- Pray that the boys will be well behaved and give the teachers the energy, wisdom and creativity to teach to an active group of boys.
- Please pray for the children at the Franklin St. George Community Church GNC:
- Unfortunately, the GNC was ended by the community center’s director due to a scheduling issue.
- Please pray that what they learned will not be forgotten and thrown to the side.
- Thankfully, the director would like to accommodate future summer camps and events for CEF.
- We pray that we will be able to have a GNC at St. George Community Center in the fall to accommodate the Franklin school students.
- Ellwood GNC:
- Lord we ask you to bring Children to the Ellwood GNC in the fall. Bring them LORD!!!
- Lord give Lisa Sloan and Ann Haas favor with the school principal and the families.
- Roosevelt School GNC:
- Lord the school is under a new principal and we pray that YOU will give us favor again as you have over the last 9 years.
- We have used the music and art room in the past. We pray we will be able to use one of these rooms this fall.
- Santa Ynez GNC:
- Lord we pray for the 2 children who stopped coming to club.
- Lord we ask you to put a fire in the children’s hearts for you and that they will miss Good News Club time. May they tell their parents they want to go to GNC.
- Pray for the students that are attending the TCE1 class in Spanish.
- That they will finish strong (ends May 15th) and feel empowered and ready to teach the Gospel to the Hispanic community.
- We pray that Good News Clubs will arise once the students have completed the class.
- CEF Summer 5 Day Clubs:
- Jesus, we ask you to guide Sharon Jegottka, Marina King and Pamela Van Dyk as they continue working on details.
- Please pray for a location for our soccer camp.
- We need many teen volunteers to help make the camps super fun!
- Also pray for adult volunteers to teach.
- Give us favor as we seek to speak at church youth groups and schools to recruit teens.
- We ask you to bring kids who don’t know you to the summer camps.
- Keep all the children and volunteers healthy at the summer camps.
- Lord we pray for all GNC kids:
- That the kids would realize what it means to have a friendship with God and put the time and energy into their friendship with Him.
- That the kids will look for ways He has worked and is working in their lives.
- That they would ask Him to use them so their lives would make a difference in this world.
- Also, that the kids would be excited about what they are learning and share it with their parents and friends.
- Lord we lift up one of our GNC volunteer teacher who has cancer. Please give her wisdom as she decides which direction to take, chemotherapy or radiation.
- Give all her doctors involved in her care, wisdom.
- We pray for complete healing throughout her whole body in your mighty healing name Jesus!!!
- We pray that she stays healthy and strong during this time and you will protect her body from all side effects such as nausea, tiredness, neuropathy etc.
- Lord may you put a supportive, patient and loving group of friends and family in her life as she undergoes treatment.
- Lord Jesus we lift up the CEF party carnival we are planning this Fall, Sept. 11th.
- Please pray for the location at Alameda Park.
- Pray as we advertise our Good News Clubs to the families and kids. We hope we will recruit many kids to attend in the fall at their school.
- Pray for the decisions on food and games.
- We pray that it will be super fun for the kids and families.
- Lord we pray for our volunteers that sacrificed their time this year teaching GNC.
- Give them peace and rest this summer.
- Refresh their minds, body and soul.
- Continue to keep them healthy and strong
- Churches will catch the vision of reaching children through summer clubs and school clubs in the Fall.
- Pray for the striking down of the Equality Act that will affect us very negatively if passed.
- Pray for Godly wisdom with SBUSD.
- Pray for Sharon Jegottka as she helps her parents, manages her family, prepares for her brother’s remembrance June 11th and her work for CEF. Give her peace, multiply her time and help her mange her time wisely.
- We pray for a Good News Club on the Mesa at Monroe, Washington or McKinley Schools. Pray that volunteers from Calvary Chapel will help.
- Lord we ask you to bring more volunteers to help teach your word.
** Every Tuesday morning from 6:30-7:15am, CEF runs a special time of prayer for our ministries. You are invited to participate! Click here to request the Zoom link. Thank you!