Director’s Address
Happy New Year from Shoreline CEF. It is exciting to start a brand-new year, and to see what the Lord is going to do. I am so looking forward to this new year of ministry.
I hope you all had a great time of rest and relaxation, and spending time with family over the holiday season. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with family. It was great to be able to spend Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania with Wendy’s family, and being able to spend Christmas and New Year with our children.
This is what the Lord did in December. Before schools let out for Christmas break, four children started attending club. One of the new children was in our Foster club in Ludington. This club started with just one child, and only had one child for the first three weeks, now it is up to nine children enrolled. Praise the Lord for what He has done with this club. Wendy and I have had the privilege of watching this club grow. All 10 of the clubs range from 4 children enrolled up to 40 children. This brings our total enrollment for the clubs this year to 191, with 10 coming to know Christ as Savior. Praise God!! For the second half of our club year, we are praying that at least nine new children start attending club. This will help us to reach our goal of 200 children enrolled in clubs. One of our committee members is working on starting a club in Hart. When this club starts, this will help us reach our goal of 11 clubs. Please pray with us that this club will start this month. Pray, as the other clubs restart, that children will remember to come back and that they will invite their friends so we can see the other clubs grow as well.
Testimony from Clubs
The Lord provides in great ways. One thing we like to be able to do is purchase club shirts for the children that attend clubs. At the beginning of the year, the chapter did not have enough funds to purchase shirts. Through much prayer, First Baptist Church of Fremont, which has adopted the Pathfinder Good News Club, gave money to buy shirts for all the children in that club. Also, another church in the chapter gave so we can purchase shirts for the other clubs in the chapter. We are thankful for these gifts.
Yes, it is still winter outside, but it’s time to start thinking about summer. Last summer, we had a total of 17 5-Day Clubs throughout the shoreline chapter. In these clubs, we had a total enrollment of 275 children, with 15 coming to know Christ as Savior. This summer, we would love to be able to have at least 18 clubs with more children in enrollment. Are there children in your neighborhood that need to be reached? Is there a week that you can give an hour and a half each day to host a club? Will you pray about hosting a club this summer?
Clubs—10
Enrollment—191
Salvations—10
As of the end of December
Christmas Across Americasm
During the month of December, we were able to have five Christmas party clubs throughout the chapter. Three of them were in schools where we already have clubs. In these party clubs, we had a total of 46 children attend. There were more clubs that were planned, but they were canceled due to weather. We Praise the Lord for the clubs we were able to have.
Budget for 2018
One of CEF’s Quotes is: “Ask God, and tell his people.”
Another quote is from my favorite missionary, Hudson Taylor. He said: “God’s work done God’s way will never lack God’s supply.”
CEF of Shoreline believes that we need to live both of these quotes. So, we are letting you know our yearly budget for 2018, and letting you know what we need to bring in each month to meet this budget. The committee and staff have put a lot of prayer into this budget and we ask that you pray with us as well.
Yearly budget—$76,182
Monthly need to reach this budget—$6,3349
Announcements
Our teacher’s fellowship will restart on January 8 at our office. Just a reminder that our office has moved down the hall from where we used to be. Prayer time will be at 10 AM with the fellowship to follow at 11 AM. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Our next Pie Fellowship will be held on February 8 at 6:30PM at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Ludington.
Mark your calendars for April 7. This is the date of our annual banquet. This year we will be having it at Shelby Road Baptist Church
