Child Evangelism Fellowship Targets Children of Portland under Harsh Criticism

ChristianHeadlines.com ^ | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | Carrie Dedrick

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Christian group Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) has set its sights on bringing the children of Portland to Christianity. CEF’s Good News Club is targeting kids at typical summer locations such as pools and parks to join the group amidst harsh criticism.

Oregon is known as the least religious state in the nation from Gallup polls in 2008 and 2012 which is why CEF chose the location for its outreach. And as the current law stands, the Good News Club does not need parent consent forms to approach children in public spaces, as they do for schools.

According to the AP, some Portland residents have joined together to protest the CEF’s tactics. Protect Portland Children organizer Kay Schmitt said, “They pretend to be a mainstream Christian Bible study when in fact they’re a very old school fundamentalist sect.”

But CEF vice president Moises Esteves says that Protect Portland Children just wants to ban Christian outreach. “Children are easy to manipulate, we all know that. We don’t use any of the schemes and high-pressure tactics that we’re accused of. Nothing could be farther from the truth,” he said.

CEF’s Good News Club has been criticized for teaching young children that they are sinners and going to hell if they do not repent, but Esteves said that the group teaches children about sin in a gentle way. “We do teach that children are sinners, but we’re not nasty about it,” he said. “If we were nasty about it, the kid wouldn’t come back.”

[PapaBear3625]

One would have to determine if the Framers of the Constitution had the Scientologists and Moslems in mind and when they authorized the First Amendment, and if it was their original intent to provide protections to non Christian or Jewsih groups that had no organizational history in the United States.

However, the US DID have a sizable Catholic population at the time, particularly in Maryland. Thus Catholics, by your reasoning, WERE included in the intent of the First Amendment. If you are non-Catholic, would you be fine with Catholics proselytizing to your kids?

[PapaBear3625]

Each child who attends MUST have a signed permission slip from his parents allowing him to attend.

In that case, I have no problem with them.

[SoConPubbie]

And the Mormon, Muslims, and the rest are of the opinion that Christians are deluded and do not believe in the One True Religion.

And what they think is of no concern on this matter to Christians.

Mathew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

As a Christian, my first loyalty is to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, if he commands me to go out and gather in the harvest, that is what I will do, whether you think we have a problem or not.

Furthermore, the Founders of our country made this country exclusively for a Christian nation. They stated that otherwise it would fail.