Three weeks of fair - over 300 kids!

Good News Club house sign shows the fun inside!

We had a variety of weather... cold
 and soaking wet to sweltering

Face painting (we were given some new
high quality paints by a woman at one of the fairs,
which was a blessing; it looks fantastic)

The Wordless Book Gospel story with the "magic bag"

Fair at night (post-rain)

Story in progress: please wait!

Teaching again!

It seems like a loong time since I've taught 5-day club.

It has actually been a couple years, I suppose.

But a couple weeks ago, I got to teach with a couple of missionaries who needed a third team member.

Summer statistics

Western Wisconsin by the numbers...


La Crosse Interstate Fair: 265 children reached, 85 decisions for Christ
Monroe County Fair: 12 children heard the Gospel, 350 books distributed

5-day Clubs:

Tomah area: 60 children reached, 4 decisions
La Crosse area: 265 children reached, 24 decisions
Eau Claire area: 78 children reached, 13 decisions

That's 126 children in Western Wisconsin who made decisions for Christ through CEF this summer!

Quotes from the Clubhouse

Quotes from kids at the fair trailer:

Missionary (showing the Wordless Book): How is this book different from other books?...

There are no words, are there?

Child: Did someone pull them off??

Missionary: What are some things God created?

Child: He made the Ferris wheel!

Child to missionary: I remember you from 5-day club last year!!!

Child (complimenting us on the Wordless Book presentation): It was all good... except for the blood.

Child: Did God make drugs?

Missionary: How can you be cleaned up from your sin?

Child: By being baptized?

Missionary: What's the punishment for your sin?

Child: God has to spread apart from you

Good News Clubhouse

Hey peeps!

This July at the La Crosse Interstate Fair, CEF will have the Good News Clubhouse up and running. The Good News Clubhouse is a trailer that's painted in all kinds of fun colors, with the inside painted like night and day. Kids can come through and hear the Wordless Book (the Gospel), and get their faces painted.
The trained teen teachers (ttt... I love saying that) will be sharing the Wordless Book. We can have other teens, like our friends, paint faces and we need an adult present whenever we're working. The adult volunteer will often talk to the parents outside the trailer, or talk to adults and kids as they walk by.

It's a lot of work - about ten hours a day for four days in a sweaty trailer- but it's worth it! Last year we reached over 800 kids just through the fair trailer ministry!

If you want to learn more about it or you'd like to do a five-hour shift, please email me at nenya1910@gmail.com!