Organizations Filed Purposes:
Called to go to challenging places and unreached people, Children in Christ inspires, equips, and mobilizes a God-grown indigenous ministry from local church to broader communities that: Values children, ministers God's love to them, matures them in Christ, and empowers them to impact families, villages, and nations for Christ.
CIC holds weekly children's clubs (CIC Clubs) in remote, unchurched regions, which are led by equipped and trained indigenous local church ministry volunteers. These weekly CIC club meetings include games, worship, Bible lessons, discipleship content, life application questions, and prayer. In FY 2020, approximately 226,000 children in 3,249 sites in 23 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa attended CIC clubs weekly.
CIC inspires, equips, and trains indigenous African church leaders and lay ministry volunteers in the importance of children and how to minister to them effectively. We train pastors and churches to understand that children, who are 48% of the entire population in Africa, are very important to God and should be very important to the church as well. Additionally CIC emphasizes the importance of the local church reaching out to unchurched children and ministering God's love to them. CIC provides interested pastors and churches with 5 days of children's ministry vision and ministry trainings, so that those churches can establish ministry to unchurched children in their proximate regions through children's weekly clubs. In FY 2020, CIC inspired and mobilized 18,648 indigenous ministry volunteers to minister in these clubs. Total participants trained in FY 2020 were 17,362 in which 819 pastors were trained and equipped for the ministry.
Children in Christ inspires, equips, and empowers children and youth (ages 9-18) to lead effectively as positive, healthy role models and servant leaders in 3 ways: (1) Weekly/Monthly youth leadership discipleship meetings (2) 5-day child/youth leadership trainings (3) Equipped and empowered active leadership roles within CIC club ministry and peer trainings.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| James Saunders | Treasurer | 40 | $40,000 |
| Scott Zimmerman | Director | 0.01 | $0 |
| Jennifer Merryman | Director and President | 40 | $0 |
| Sam Voorhees | Director | 0.01 | $0 |
| Frank Williams | Secretary and Chairman of Board | 0.05 | $0 |
| Tayo Fagbenro | Director | 0.01 | $0 |
| Tim Andrews | Director | 0.01 | $0 |
| Terry Andrews | Director and Founder | 0.01 | $0 |
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