News from Nance
We breathed a sigh of relief after the successful fundraising banquet. We’re very grateful to know that individuals starting Good News Clubs in the fall will not have to pay for their curriculum. In the meantime, our summer missionaries will have no expenses as they train to serve.
Please pray for our 2026 Summer Missionaries (SMs): Eva, Hannah, Nadiyah, Elizabeth, and Dakota, (pictures next month) and for the adult workers who will be teaching with them this summer.
Summer ministry kicks off with training for those SMs followed by the first Good News Blitz on May 16th.
Then 5-Day Clubs begin in Wilmington and travel to Xenia, Beavercreek, Englewood, Yellow Springs, Eaton, Trotwood, and ???
Rachel’s Report
Summer is coming! We are preparing the end of April through the first week of June for Christian Youth in Action® (CYIA™) and 5-Day Club®. All our summer missionaries have an application process to do and then a series of pre-training classes and requirements to get done before they can go to CYIA training school the second week of June. This year, it looks like we will have summer missionaries – 3 returning and 2 new! Through the pre-training and the Christian Youth in Action training school, each summer missionary will learn how to carry out their role in 5-Day Club, whether that is teaching Bible lessons, sharing missionary stories, or leading review games. A few days after we return from CYIA training school, we will jump right into 5-Day Clubs! Our theme this year is Turned Around, focusing on how God turned around the lives of 5 Bible characters (Zacchaeus, Mephibosheth, Noah, Saul, and the Ethiopian Treasurer) and how God can turn our lives around today too.
In between preparing for summer, I have been able to help one of our Teaching Children Effectively™ Level 1 students with a Good News Club at her home. We are doing the Turned Around curriculum there too. So far, we have met twice. Both times, we have had three kids and two adults join us for the club in her living room. I have never been part of a home-based Good News Club before, and this experience has really highlighted for me the beauty of doing club in a home. The kids all already know the hostess/teacher and those who live in her apartment community can walk to club instead of needing a ride.
Praise the Lord:
The April Fundraising Banquet was a blessing (exceeding the goal of $12,000)
For 3 summer missionaries to help teach 5-Day Club
Please Pray For:
The summer missionaries’ training: memorizing verses, taking classes, doing practicums, etc.
Enough volunteers for the upcoming fair season in July/August (6 fairs & 1 festival this year)