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History of CSB
Our Founder
Joe Coughlin turned a Sunday School class of sixth-grade boys into a Christian youth work that mobilized young people for Christian service. Today, Joe’s dream has been fulfilled many times over in Christian Service Brigade.
Joe was born on May 23, 1919 in Hampton, Virginia. Before he was a year old, his father died. The fact that Joe never knew his father profoundly influenced him later. “I felt that not having had a father as a boy somehow became a contributing factor in my own interest in boys,” he once said, “I desperately wanted a dad. When I discovered John 1:12, I found that I did have a Father.”
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Our History
In 1937, Joe Coughlin, a college student teaching a Sunday School class of boys in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, started a weekly club program in order to challenge his restless pupils. It wasn’t an unusual idea, but Joe wasn’t an ordinary Sunday School teacher. He was a young man with a vivid imagination and a burning zeal to serve Christ.
Coughlin dreamed on a grand scale: his Sunday School class of boys could become the nucleus of an army of Christian young men marching for the cause of Christ. The movement grew, molding thousands of boys into mature men of Christ.
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CSB in Canada
CSB came to Canada not long after its inception in the United States, thanks to a few key men who caught the vision. Perhaps no single person was as instrumental in laying the foundation for the Canadian ministry as Tom Peake. Since then, there has been a legacy of godly men who championed the ministry and served faithfully. It is our privilege to join their efforts in winning and training boys for Christ.
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