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A 5-Day Club is a 2-hour program that runs for five days, from Monday to Friday. It includes games, skits, songs, memory verses, and life-changing Bible lessons. It can run in five mornings or five afternoons. 5-Day Clubs can be held indoors in churches, community centres, schools, etc. They can also be outdoors in parks, school yards, or even someone's backyard. They are taught by teams of two trained and equipped CEF summer missionaries. The teens and young adults who make up our summer teams are called "Christian Youth In Action (CYIA)". Churches and individuals can book one of our teams to help them minister for a week to the children of their community. To learn more about this exciting summer ministry opportunity, or how you could arrange to have a CEF team in your community, go to Summer Ministries.  
A Good News Club (GNC) is a weekly program, typically held on a mid-week day after school. It is a structured program that runs each week for about 1.5 hours. The GNC combines games, songs, memory verses, and Bible lessons to instruct children and give them opportunity to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour.
GNC's are staffed by volunteers and are typically operated in a school room, community room, or community centre. Training is available through CEF for those who wish to host a GNC. Curriculum is provided free of charge to club leaders.
Slingshot Saturday (SS) is a monthly club program normally conducted on Saturday mornings (in some cases extending into the afternoon). It is more relaxed, less structured, and longer in duration than a Good News Club, but still contains worship and a Bible teaching time. SS is available in neighbourhoods with a high proportion of "disadvantaged" or "at risk" children. Many of these children are facing not just spiritual needs, but emotional needs, and perhaps physical needs as well. Many have learned to put up walls of distrust. For these reasons Slingshot is built on mentoring relationships between leaders and students, with a less structured program that offers time and opportunity to develop those relationships.
Slingshot Saturday is the central component of a package of ministries that will be offered to these children, including Camp Good News, weekend retreats, March break camps, and special Christmas events. As a package they create a synergy of relationship-based ministry.  
CEF Ontario provides summer camping opportunities for "disadvantaged" or "at-risk" children. During the course of the summer we will offer up to six weeks of camp at the "Apps Ridge Camp and Training Centre", our headquarters near Brantford. CGN is primarily for children who are part of our "Slingshot Saturday" programs. As Slingshot programs expand and the need develops in other parts of the province our intention is to provide camping alternatives in other locations as well. The children attending camp are almost always from low income families, and the families themselves are required to pay only a small portion of the actual camp cost. The rest of the costs for a child to attend camp are covered by sponsors. Please contact our office if you wish to assist with the costs of sending a needy child to Camp Good News. By 2012, as the Slingshot sponsorship program is developed, our hope is that the costs of Camp Good News will be covered as part of those sponsorships. Once again, please contact our office if you are interested in sponsoring a child in this way and enabling them to participate in the full range of Slingshot ministries. 
Club DJ is a midweek church club program designed to draw children from your community to your local church and win them to Christ. The Club DJ motto is' Hearts that desire to please God'. The aim is to disciple children who have made decisions for Christ and encourage them to have hearts that desire to please Him. Club DJ is an outstanding program developed by "UB David & I'll B Jonathan Inc." and offered to you through CEF Ontario. It is strongly Bible-based, and truly effective at both reaching and keeping children. For more information about Club DJ please click here.  
CEF Ontario participates in a number of fairs and festivals across Ontario, sharing the Gospel with children. In some cases it may involve a simple face painting booth where the Gospel is shared through the colours of the Wordless Book. That simple approach is augmented in some cases with a Gospel Magic presentation, or with puppets or storytelling. Our most elaborate fair ministries take place regularly at the Norfolk County Fair and the International Plowing Match. In these locations the Gospel is presented through a multi-station setup involving live actors. In recent years these have featured presentations based on "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Moses", and "Noah". 2011 ministries will be based on the life of Joseph.  
The Mailbox Club is a series of age appropriate correspondence courses for children. With parental permission children may enroll in the Mailbox Club. A first lesson for their age group will be sent from the CEF Ontario office. When they have completed that lesson they send it in to be marked. A volunteer marker will receive the completed lesson, mark it, and return it to the child with the next lesson. This cycle can continue for a number of years, and as long as the child continues to send in completed lessons they will receive new ones. There is no cost for a child to enroll in the Mailbox Club.
If you wish to enroll your child in the Mailbox Club please contact our office. If you wish to be a volunteer marker we would be pleased to hear from you as well.
Children from across Canada may call a toll-free telephone number that is available 24 hours a day. They will listen to a 3 minute recorded story, followed by a brief Gospel message. The recording changes each day from Monday to Friday. Currently between 35,000 and 40,000 calls are received on the tel-a-story line each year. 
www.wonderzone.com is an interactive website for children, offered through CEF International. Three are games, puzzles, stories, and a place for children to express their thoughts and questions. CEF volunteers known as "Trail Guides" will field those questions and help guide children on their spiritual journey.
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Children who are part of Slingshot MUST have an opportunity to become part of a local church, so Slingshot Saturday clubs are implemented in partnership with churches that have a vision for ministry to boys and girls in a needy community. The leaders, prayer partners, and sponsors will for the most part come from those partnering churches.
