1. Setting
the Board Development Training
Course
Understanding The
Part 2 a
Needs Of Our Chapter

2. The course has been set.
It’s time for you to chart your course.
What types of things should you be considering?
1. Fulfill the purpose of CEF with excellence
2. A consistent, ongoing, organized prayer program
3. Growth in primary CEF ministries.
4. An effective teacher training program
5. Healthy financial accountability
6. An aggressive effort in the area of promotion

3. 7. Compliance with all policies and procedures
8. A written ministry strategy
9. Build a team of workers
10. Acquire and maintain adequate office space
Let’s look at some foundational requirements
BEFORE we actually start discussing and
planning…

4. Setting
the Board Development Training
Course
Understanding The
Part 2 b
Needs Of Our Chapter:
Preserve the Ministry

5. “If God has called you
to be involved in
ministry, He has called
you first and foremost to
pray for the ministry.”
—Hudson Taylor

6. Pray
Pray ½ hour before the meeting:
•Prepares hearts
•Relieves tension
•Strengthens relationships among members
Between meetings:
•Daily prayer for staff requests
•Have regular prayer with staff
•Be involved in a prayer band
•Participate in World Day of Prayer
•Pray daily for more workers

7. Preserve the Ministry
•Keep the ministry biblically sound
•Statement of Faith, Doctrinal Protection
Policy and Worker’s Compliance
Agreement
•Devotions
•Use Child Evangelism Fellowship®
materials
•Establish an advisory council
•Keep the ministry on track
•Make three primary ministries a priority
•Good News Club® , 5-Day Club®
and CEF Mailbox Club™

8. •Evaluate other ministries with CEF purpose
statement
•Keep the ministry unified
•Follow the CEF Organizational Manual
•Review portions of the Manual
•Use only the official CEF logo

9. Protect the Children
Child Protection Policy
“…protect the children who attend any USA Child
Evangelism Fellowship® ministry function and
workers who are minors from the possibility of
abuse and to assist the child who is being abused
to find the needed help. This program is also
designed to protect CEF ® and the workers from
false accusations.”

10. •600,000 a year are sexually abused
•550,000 sex offenders
•Location of 100,000 of those unknown
Each chapter must abide by the Child
Protection Policy as outlined in the Child
Protection Policy Manual

11. Setting
the Board Development Training
Course
Understanding The
Part 2 c
Needs Of Our Chapter:
Planning

12. Planning
•Know the goal and work together to achieve it.
•Only God knows
In Boardroom Confidence,
Bobb Biehl points out,
“...planning is an evidence of faith, not a
contradiction to it. As you plan a building you
are expressing faith that God will bring people
to fill it.”

13. Strategic Planning
•Spend time praying and asking God for His
wisdom
•Surround yourself with wise and
knowledgeable people who can help you plan
•Know the strategic plan for your state and
USA Ministries
•Pray and watch God do great things

14. Team Leadership
Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall:
but in the multitude of counselors there is safety
- Those with specific strengths or interests aide
the director and staff in making decisions that
impact the usefulness, effectiveness, and witness
of the ministry.
-Building on one another’s strengths,
shortcomings are avoided through prayerful,
biblical, and practical reasoning.
- Decisions are committee / director team
decisions therefore reducing director & staff
stress. (it was “our” decision)

15. Suggested Board Sub-Committees
Financial Sub-Committee
Fund-raising / Public Relations; Budget
development; Cash flow analysis; Purchasing; Legal
financial accountability
Personal Sub-Committee
Staff hiring; paid & volunteer development &
support; Salary & benefit review; Conflict
resolution; Recruiting development
Ministry Sub-Committee
Ministry planning & development; Public speaking;
Prayer support and development

16. Setting
the Board Development Training
Course
Understanding The
Needs Of Our Chapter:
Discussion & Planning