Child Evangelism Fellowship of Mifflin Juniata Perry Counties

09/01/2026

SAVE TO YOUR CALENDAR!!!
CEF of MJP 6th Annual Walk-a-Thon

September 19th
Registration at 8:15 am
Walk starts at 9:00 am

You can register now and get a pledge form to collect pledges from those who are unable to walk.

All donations go back into our MJP account to support our ministry of reaching children with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You can contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or go directly to our website and print the pledge form there. cefmjp.org/annual-walkathon.html

Come join us and WALK FOR GOSPEL!

Every Child - Every Nation - Every Day

07/07/2026

We are needing prayer for our Christian Youth in Action (CYIA) Summer missionary team. We have three signed up on our CYIA missionary team. They have worked and prepared hard for our four 5-Day Clubs this summer season. We are in our first week, two days in, but so far, no children have attended. We still are going through our club routine, but trusting the LORD for His will to be done. Claiming Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Please pray for our summer missionaries to stay strong and focused on Him; to not get discouraged. Our prayers are, of course, for children to come. May His will be done at His time, not ours.

03/03/2026

CEF Prayer Warrior Letter
March 2026

This month is Daylight Savings Time and it reminds me of our mission in CEF, to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, disciple them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living. As our MJP Prayer Warriors, we are thankful that you bring our office staff, our teacher and helpers, and our precious boys and girls and our faithful bus drivers, to the throne of God each day. Without your prayers for each part of our ministry, we could not do the work God has called us to do. We thank you for remembering Joe and Virginia, who do much footwork and planning to make each season's ministry run smoothly. We Praise the Lord for each of you!

PRAYER REQUESTS:

1. For New Bloomfield Elementary School that will be starting an ASGNC on Thursday, March 5th. They 46 children registered. Three teachers will be running this club. We need prayer for more to volunteer to the keep the child/helper ratio up to standard.
2. For our Released Time ending on the week of April 5th. Pray for a strong finish because God is working in the hearts of our children.
3. Because of the increase in child attendance we need more helpers to come forward in our existing RT and ASGNS's.
4. For our "March Bus Bank Campaign", for funds to be raised to help defray the cost of buses used to transport boys and girls to RT.
5. For Virginia and Joe as they speak with the students interested in being CYIA summer missionaries. Pray that their parents will be an encouragement to them as they seek the Lord in serving as a CYIA summer missionary.
6. For our GNC Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon on April 10th. Because we want to show how much we appreciate our teachers and helpers, please pray for the luncheon, to be well attended.

PRAISE:
1. For the increased attendance in all our RT and ASGNC's, this year.
2. As the LORD continues to provide for our MJP Chapter in various ways.
3. For our faithful Committee members, as they meet each month, to have the mind of Christ for our ministry.
4. Praise the LORD for our faithful prayer and financial donors.
5. For safe travels this year for our teachers, helpers and the bus drivers, who transport our children to RT Clubs.
6. Praise for the six possible CYIA Summer Missionaries that we have to interview. One is a returnee, and we have three who we will be interviewing over the next few days. (One of them has already said yes).

02/03/2026

February 2026

Isaiah 49:16a – “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;”

Dear Faithful MJP Prayer Partners,
My husband and I have had devotions together for many years and one of our devotions recently was on Isaiah 49:16a. Since February is, the month set aside to show love to others, this verse made us reflect on how much Jesus loved us. Jesus laid down His life willingly, nailed to a cross, to pay the penalty for our sins, and as the devotional says, “we are forever engraved in the palms of His hands”. CEF ministry has the privilege of showing boys and girls that they too can be engraved in the palms of Jesus’ hands, by seeing their need of a Savior and accepting Him into their hearts and lives. As these children hear the gospel message may many receive Christ into their heart and lives.

Prayer Requests:
1. For Joe and Virginia as they visit the Christian high schools to promote CYIA for summer missionaries. Dates are as follows: (February 2nd - Belleville Christian School, and February 19th- Mifflin County Christian School).
2. For MJP to get two new committee members from Perry County, for our local committee.
3. For our annual Bank Bus Campaign coming up in March, to help pay for Mifflin County buses that transport our boys and girls to Released Time.
4. For the summer of 2026 Soccer Party Clubs, that correspond with the World Cup Soccer Competition that will be taking place here in the USA. Pray for locations and for many boys and girls to participate in this event, to hear the gospel and play some soccer.

Praises:
1. For three young ladies from Juniata Christian School who are praying about becoming summer missionaries.
2. For our faithful teachers and helpers as they give of their time to present the gospel to the boys and girls in the public schools.
3. For Ivy Shilling returning as a summer missionary in 2026.
4. For each of our faithful Prayer Warriors bringing us before the LORD each day.
5. For faithful financial donors who support our ministry.
6. For our Mailbox Club as it continues to grow and for the boys and girls to be faithful in returning their lessons to complete each series. They get a nice certificate for each series they complete.

01/02/2026

January 2026 Prayer Warrior Letter

Isaiah 40:8, 30 & 31 – The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Dear Faithful MJP Prayer Partners,
The verses above talk about “withereth,” “fadeth,” “faint,” “weary,” and “fall” and I believe, these are words we can all relate to. We get weary in fighting the good fight in our Christian faith from at times. So let’s put 2025 behind us and look forward to 2026, and be encouraged by the words in these verses that are uplifting. “…the word of our God shall stand for ever.” Verse 31 says to “…wait upon the LORD to renew our strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall ran and not be weary and walk and not faint.” As we look at our individual prayer lists we can get discouraged but we get our strength vertically not horizontally.

Praises:
1. for one child receiving salvation at our Christmas Party Club in Perry Manor.
2. that we are filling RT buses, to capacity, with boys and girls.
3. for overall increase in our club attendance.
4. for our End of Year Giving, so far we have received $2,430.00
5. for our faithful individuals and churches that support our ministry in prayer and financial giving.
6. for our faithful Committee that meets each month to make decisions for our MJP Chapter.

Prayer Requests:
1. New Bloomfield Elementary is interested in starting as ASGNC pray that they will get the help they need to begin this January.
2. for Joe and Virginia as they visit the Christian High Schools to promote CYIA for summer missionaries. Dates are as follows: (January 7th- Juniata Christian School, February 2nd-Belleville Christian School, and February 19th- Mifflin County Christian School)
3. the holidays are over and clubs will be starting on January 5th. Pray for the health of teachers, helpers, students and bus drivers.
4. Since some of our buses our filling up, pray we do not have to turn any child away because of not being about to transport to RT.
5. for MJP to get two new committee members from Perry County for our local committee.
6. for our annual Bus Bank Campaign in March.
7. for the Summer of 2026, Soccer Party Clubs that correspond with the World Cup Soccer Competition that will be taking place here in the USA.