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Dr. Mable Ruth Wray, a native of Bradford, Tennessee, is the daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. Ben Wray. She graduated from Bradford High School in 1941, and then studied aeronautical engineering in Memphis, Tennessee. She worked for the U.S. Government and the Welch Scientific Company in Chicago, Ill., for seven years before feeling the call of God to prepare for full-time Christian service.
In 1948, Dr. Wray started evening school at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, transferring to day school in 1952. In the Summer of 1953, she went to Eastern Pennsylvania as a Summer missionary with Child Evangelism Fellowship. Impressed with the need to bring the Gospel to children, she returned to Pennsylvania as a Summer missionary in 1954.
After graduating from Moody in 1955, she came back to Pennsylvania as a state field worker for Child Evangelism Fellowship. After just a short time in the State Office, Dr. Wray became Director of the Northumberland County office of Child Evangelism Fellowship. There she stayed for the next 14 years, organizing the work, teaching children the Word of God, and training teachers for Good News Clubs.
Dr. Wray graduated from the Child Evangelism Fellowship Leadership Training Institute in Muskegon, Michigan in 1971. For five years following her graduation, she filled the position of faculty member in the Leadership Training Institute and Teacher Trainer with the International Office of Child Evangelism Fellowship, Inc. She traveled throughout the United States and around the world establishing, organizing, and developing leadership training institutes, for pastors, missionaries, and youth workers to teach them how to evangelize children. Some of the countries she has worked in include: Europe, East and West Africa, Pakistan, Indoneisa, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda.
In 1976, Dr. Wray officially resigned her position with the International Office to come back to Pennsylvania, serving as the State Director of Child Evangelism Fellowship. Here she helped establish, staff, and lead county organizations within the state for child evangelism. After 50 years in the Lord's work with CEF of Eastern Pennsylvania, Dr. Wray is now the State Director Emeritus
Today CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF EASTERN PA., INC. is spread over 20 counties, with 42 full-time county directors and staff, county committees, and hundreds of volunteers. The goal is still the same, to bring children to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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