Organizational Sketch:
During the meetings of the American Council of Christian Churches in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1945, a movement for child evangelism was launched on a national basis. Children for Christ, Incorporated, was a local organization in St. Louis which had its beginnings because of the reorganization of the Child Evangelism Fellowship program in that city earlier in 1945.
On 20 October 1945, Children for Christ, Incorporated was enlarged into a national organization. In 1948 it was made an international organization, with the national office in St. Louis, Missouri and the international office in Switzerland. The Rev. Francis A. Schaeffer was the International Director, and the Board of Children for Christ included the following:

With the enlargement of the work to a national scale, an aggressive program began to be put in place. Already the program was ministering to thousands of children in the St. Louis area through child evangelism classes in the neighborhoods and through released time classes in the public school system. A work in Columbus, Ohio soon reported the organization of a work along similar lines, and other similar works were quickly replicated across the country. Dr. Schaeffer's efforts to establish Children for Christ chapters in post-war Europe were soon set aside as his work turned to a ministry to older students and that ministry became the L'Abri mission by 1955.

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