• Our vision is to ensure that every child in every generation is given the opportunity to engage fully with Jesus, through God's word.
• Our focus is the strategic opportunity of evangelism and discipleship to the world's 2 billion children and the conviction that this needs to be a significant priority for the worldwide church.
• Our aim is to celebrate what each individual organisation does, but to intentionally explore what can be achieved together. We believe that together we generate the ideas and momentum to achieve the paradigm shifts required.
• Our method is to convene gatherings of global children’s ministry agencies, champion children, foster collaborations and connect resources to needs.

The GCF 'story' in brief

• We began with the challenge of 2.1 billion children and 1 billion who have never heard.
• We recognised that paradigm shifts would be needed to address this (see ‘Aim Lower’ video).
• We also recognised that there are many layers to discipling children and this makes it imperative to work together (see Reaching Every Child videos and the Pattaya Scale).
• At GCF 08 (July 2008), we started to identify some of the gaps and dreams for this journey and formed Action Groups to commit to a range of actions together.
• At GCF 09 (May 2009) we want to intentionally further our thinking in three focused areas in order to generate momentum and action:
  • Empowering children
  • Equipping those who serve children
  • Envisioning and Inspiring on behalf of children to the body of Christ and beyond.

GCF Resources

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