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Colors of Chicago!"!#$%&'$(($)!*+!,*-(.!/0(.!"!10&&0*2!3.0456*! 75''!899:
4thAnnual Arts With A Mission Summer Camp
Raising up an army of artistic ambassadors!
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City ScapeI dont know if you believe in this or not, but I think I had a vision of you last night. A well-
dressed woman looked at me with tears in her eyes. I had just walked up to her, after sending our
team out to offer people prayer in the plaza. I had seen her come out of the courthouse building abou
15 yards away and felt led to go and talk to her. As I approached her, she stopped and stared at me
with a look of surprise. I said, We are out here praying for people, do you have anything I could pray
for you about? The Lord has sent us here to give people hope. It was at this point that she told me
about her vision as tears began to form in her eyes.
She told me how she had recently gone through a difficult divorce, had lost her job, and was now in
court losing custody of her kids. The night before I had met her, she was contemplating suicide. Just
before she took an overdose of pills she had an overwhelming feeling that God did not want her to go
through with it. She told God that she didnt know whether He even existed, but that if He did, He
needed to show himself to her somehow. Immediately she saw a picture of someone who looked like
me coming up to her and telling her that God had sent him to give her hope. She told God that if that
was Him then he needed to make it happen the next day while she was going to court. After seeing
her vision come true, imagine how open she was to hearing about the Lords heart for her. After some
time, we prayed together and I encouraged her with Gods commitment toward her. At the end of the
encounter, with tears in her eyes, she told me that I could not understand how much our meeting had
changed her life.
Every year more people move into cities around the globe. Over half of the worlds population is now
living in urban centers. According to a recent Associated Press report, in less than 25 years over 5
billion people will live in cities. Already nearly 80% of Americans are city dwellers. Yet our cities still
represent the least evangelized areas of our culture. This has produced an urban generation who is
very post-Christian in its orientation and worldviews. Where does this generation turn to deal with its
overwhelming circumstances, interpretation of reality, and the increasing need for meaning and
significance? For the past 10 years, the Lord has led us in taking teams of people year round to the
main Courthouse plaza in downtown Chicago for what we call prayer evangelism. Daley Plaza serves
as a large gathering place for the citys business community during the lunch hours everyday. Since
that time we have prayed with over 11,000 people.
It is unfortunate that many of those that we meet on the streets of our cities rarely, if ever, go into our
church buildings. There is an increasing feeling that the church is irrelevant in the modern world of
pluralistic thinking and is unable to adequately answer their deepest questions. I could tell you many
stories like this, where God had divinely created the opportunity for this woman to hear His heart for
her. I cannot help but wonder if there would be more such appointments if we were more actively
available to the Lord to go outside our church walls and take our faith into the public arena. What
could our cities look like if a generation of believers reclaimed the relevance of the church by lovingly
and sincerely taking the Gospel to the streets? (Rom. 10:14-15) - Brad Stanley, Director
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Chicago News Take Action (a multimedia missions experience) came to Chica
this year! For over 20 years, Take Action has been a yearly even
that ministered to youth at YWAM Tyler (Texas) and called the
into the plans of God for their lives! We were so excited to hav
them bring this dynamic event to our city. As the scenarios playe
on the screen in this multimedia gospel presentation, the yout
attending seemed to relate to every circumstance. They snickere
when the teens were kicked out of a restaurant. They nodded whe
a rich girls mom was unavailable. They muttered while watching
boy using drugs. They were on the edge of their seats as a coup
snuggled on a sofa. Then, when a young woman left alone on stag
cried out to heaven, Im not as strong as everyone thinks; I spen
my whole life looking after everyone else! Isnt there anybody wh
will take care of ME? There was a responding wail from the depth
of the crowd, from an invisible girl in the audience who sat sobbinThe Lord had touched another heart. Over 200 young people wer
ministered to and most came forward and made various types
commitments to the Lord. Thank you for your prayers; pleas
continue to pray that the Lord will minister to those who attende
that they would know His best for their lives. Pray with us as w
make plans for next years Take Action, bringing the message t
youth that God has plans and a destiny for all of us.
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