Bev Huff

I was raised in a Christian home and attended church faithfully.  It was at the age of 6 that my father passed away suddenly and my mother at the age of 30 began to raise four children on her own.  It was my mother’s godly life and faithful walk with God that inspired me to live for Christ. At the age of 13 I received Christ at Echo Lake Bible camp and was disciple by godly youth leaders.  

While I was attending college and was challenged by a CEF director who spoke during a chapel service to give a summer to teach 5-Day Clubs.  I attended CYIA training and served as a summer missionary that summer for CEF of Manitoba and for the first time experienced what it meant to be a witness for Christ.  That is when the Lord planted the seed in my heart to serve with CEF.  For the first time I experienced God using me in sharing the gospel and I witnessed the miracle of children as well as adults coming to salvation and a personal relationship with Christ. 

 My Current role in CEF

For the past 17 years, I have had the joy and privilege of serving in the North American/Caribbean region as an Education Director.  I have witnessed God at work in many ways in developing the outreach and ministry of CEF in the Carian.  I consider it an honour to have had a part in helping open” Specific” countries in the Caribbean, with training programs helping to increase the number of Instructors and providing key training to help strengthen and ministry. As well as the joy of having opportunities to ministry to children and seeing them come to Christ. I praise God for what He is doing and look forward to what is ahead. 

Ministry roles with CEF 

  •  Regional Education NA/C – 2006 – present 

  •  Canadian CMI Director – 2002-2005 

  • Education Director – CEF of Manitoba 1981-2005 

  •  Area Director -City of Vancouver, British Columbia 1978-1981       

  • CYIA Summer Missionary – 1977 & 1978 

About CEF

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Canada (CEF) is an evangelical, Bible-centred mission whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living. Our concern in seeking to evangelize children is that, “not one of these little ones should perish.”

2025 Dec Update

Thank you for praying for the thousands of trainings and Christmas Party Clubs being conducted in the Caribbean this month.

  1. Continue to pray for wisdom in the recovery efforts in Jamicia after hurricane Melissa. The CEF office in the parish of Westmorland was destroyed and the area surrounding it was severally damaged. Also pray for our worker in St. Elizabeth parish who had twenty-three inches of water in her home and lots everything.

  2. Praise God sixty people have registered for the JYC leaders’ Zoom course in January. Pray for the printing of the Junior Youth Challenge Leaders course manuals as well as the shipping of them next week. Pray that they will arrive on time and safely.

  3. Pray as I travel to Winnipeg Dec 16-30 for the Christmas season. I am trusting the Lord for no snags while going through US immigration on December 30.

  4. Please continue to pray for my Green Card renewal process. There is no update yet except it is in process. My present card expires in February 2026, and I am trusting God that all will go smoothly.

  5.  Pray as Janet and I prepare to teach the Junior Youth Challenge course. This is the first time we have conducted this course so there are new lesson plans and details to take care of.

  6. Pray for the students of God’s choosing for the Instructor of Teachers course scheduled in April 2026.

  7. Pray that I will continue to be faithful to God’s calling in 2026.

I am so grateful for your faithfulness in prayer partner

 Bev Huff

CEF of the Caribbean

Janet Snyder

I grew up in a small country town in Pennsylvania in the US and each week our bus driver would drop us off at a neighborhood home to attend a Good News Club. Each week I would hear of God’s love and salvation through two faithful teachers. One week when I was 10 years old, I accepted Christ as my Savior.

When I was 12 years old, I had opportunity to be a helper at the Vacation Bible School at my home church. It was here that I quickly realized my love to work with children and teach them the gospel. After attending university, I was an elementary school teacher for several years. I volunteered with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) during the summers. From these experiences and mentoring leaders, the Lord called me to serve Him with Child Evangelism Fellowship full time.

My Current Role at CEF Canada
I serve as the Education and Literature director for the North America/ Caribbean Region. I oversee the training programs, train teachers and leaders, and equip and support teacher trainers in the 26 countries in the Caribbean. As Literature director I work with translation and printing of the literature for French, Dutch, Creole, and Papiamento.

About Child Evangelism Fellowship Canada (CEF Canada)
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) was established in 1937 and the mission is to evangelize children with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living. The major ministries are Good News Clubs during the school year and 5-Day Clubs throughout the summer. Volunteers are trained to reach the children in over 200 countries around the world. Every Child, Every Nation, Every Day.

2025 Dec Update

Dear Praying Friend,

"Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among
the peoples!" Psalm 105:1

GOD'S UNIMAGINABLE ANSWERS TO PRAYER
1.      Thankful for the teacher trainers in the Caribbean and their
dedication to equipping others and faithfulness to their calling.


2.      Grateful for the opportunity to join the CMI Graduation through a
live stream. Six graduated from the Caribbean.  They worked diligently and
faithfully for three months.  The joy and glow was shining on their faces.

3.      Praise for the Christmas Party Club trainings that are taking place
across the Caribbean and around the world.

4.      Praise the Lord for the Christmas Party Clubs that have taken place
this month in schools, churches and wherever children can be gathered.   

PRAYER REQUESTS
1.      The Little Kids Can Know God Seminar was a huge success!  God did
above and beyond all that we could have asked or thought.  Even though it
was postponed due to the hurricane, 270 joined online over the weekend.
Several of the instructors were having electricity/internet issues but when
it was time for them to teach all was well. The attendees were eager,
interactive, and their burden for little ones grew. Pray many preschool GNCs
will begin from the teachers that attended.   

2.      Pray for the CMI students as they returned home after being away
from home for three months. Some are just starting in the ministry and
others are returning home to continue to build their ministry. We are
grateful for them and look forward to how God will use them. Pray as they
settle into home and the ministry.

3.      Pray God will open doors to the day care centers and elementary
schools for the Christmas Party Clubs and those trained will be committed to
teaching clubs. Bonaire and Aruba are embarking on their first year of doing
Christmas Party Clubs. Ask God for His abundant fruitfulness with the
children and the ministry.

4.      Haiti is in desperate need of our prayers. Our staff has shared that
it is getting much worse. Guersie shared, "Pray that the Lord can give us
peace in the country. Nowadays, things are really hard, a lot of stressful
situations. But we know that God will continue to protect us and provide for
our needs." 

5.      Plans are continuing for the French Dynamics of Teacher Training
Course for February/March 2025. In February it will be on Zoom and March we
will meet in person.  We are praying for 18 students from 6 countries:
French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Haiti, and Quebec. Pray
with us for the needed finances for the students to travel and the visas.

I so appreciate your partnership in prayer and so thankful I could share
some of God's wonderful works and join in prayer for upcoming opportunities.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. May it be abundantly
blessed!

Gratefully,
Janet

James and Anna Young

2025 Dec Update

About Us

James was originally from Vietnam. He fled to Hong Kong with his family when he was young. James went to church in a very young age. He accepted Jesus as his personal savior after he came to Hong Kong. He was baptized at Christian and Missionary Alliance Mei Foo Church in October 1978. In 2023 his life was transformed after a serious health issue. During his recovery period, he received God’s calling to take up the Itinerant Missionary role for the Prairies. He submitted to God after praying together with Anna for a few weeks. With faith and joy, James and Anna stepped forward and accepted God’s calling.

Anna’s sister shared the gospel with Anna when she was young. Anna was baptized at Christian and Missionary Alliance Mei Foo Church in Hong Kong when she was a teenager. Being a Christian for many years, Anna put too much focus on the secular job and life issues, not knowing God has a special plan for her. Until there were some significant life events happening in her life, she realized God is her only dependence, nothing else. Anna submitted to God’s calling in humility and started this missionary journey with James after weeks of prayers. God reassured and empowered her to get on this missionary journey with James, as a couple, in many ways.

Current Roles and Challanges

As an Itinerant Missionary (Small Town Mission), our role is to lead and develop Small Town Mission Ministry by networking and partnering, mobilizing and educating churches to involve in small town missions and to proclaim the Gospel together.

Every new role has its challenges. We are just like a sponge to soak in, learn every aspect of the role itself. We understand that missionary life is not complacent but a sacrificial commitment. To connect and mobilize with the churches involving in this ministry required lots of good energy and heavenly wisdom. We need to balance a creative mind and yet follow God’s plan to carry out all the missionary duties for this ministry.

About CM Canada – Small Town Mission Ministry

CM Canada – Small Town Mission Ministry follows Jesus’ teaching: “Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.” (Matthew 9:35) With that, our vision is to regularly send out visitation teams to visit Chinese friends and communities in small towns, and to bring Christian faith, love, and care to them. We also build up local believers through testimonies, love, and bible teachings.

We cannot do this alone. We partner with churches (that is YOU) in big cities to fulfill and proclaim the Gospel together.