Summer 2009 YWAM Chicago Newsletter

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Reaching the City to Reach the World

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Colors of Chicago

A Newsletter of Youth With A Mission Chicago Summer 2009

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Celebrating 17 years of ministry to the nations in Chicago!


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YWAM ChicagoPO Box 268408Chicago, IL 60626

[email protected]

www.ywamchicago.org

Director: Brad Stanley

Youth With A Mission

Statement of Purpose

YWAM is an internationalmovement of Christians frommany denominations dedi-cated to presenting JesusChrist personally to this gen-eration, to mobilizing as manypeople as possible to help inthis task, and to the trainingand equipping of believersfor their part in fullling theGreat Commission. As citizensof Gods Kingdom we are

called to love, worship andobey our Lord, to love andserve His body, the church,and to present the WholeGospel for the whole person

throughout the whole world.

YWAM ChicagoStatement of Purpose

YWAM Chicago is commit-ted to city-wide ministry and

to the redemption of Godsdesign for the modern urbancommunity. We endeavor topresent the Gospel to the so-cially and culturally isolated,to embrace and train the im-migrant populations of ourcity, and to seek to bring thewhole gospel to the whole citythrough long-term communitydevelopment and short-term

outreaches.

FRONTIER MISSIONFor the last 2000 years, Frontier Mission has been the drive of theChurch. The desire to take the Gospel to those who have not heard

and to extend the manifested Glory of God to all nations, tribes, andpeoples has been the dening passion of the Church. It could besaid then, that the claried mission of Gods people in each genera-

tion is to continually discover and redene what the current Fron-

tiers are for the Gospel and display Gods Kingdom on the Earth.

The Oxford American Dictionary denes frontiers as the limit ofknowledge or achievement in a particular area. The American Heri-

tage Dictionary denes it as, an undeveloped area for discovery or re-

search.For the last 100 years we have seen global populations shiftfrom being 20% Urban to being over 50% Urban. Less than 100 yearsfrom now urbanization will reach 90% of the worlds populace. The

21st century will be remembered as the century of urban migration.

Every known nation, language, and people group is now movinginto the cities nearest the rural areas of their family history. The as-

sumption of the church has been that since many of these glob-al mega cities have some representation of church, a naturalsaturation of the Gospel is taking place. Rather, the nature of themodern mega city is not natural, relational or social connectivity

within geographic proximity, but greater division, specialization, andisolation in all social classes. People now exist economically, ethni-cally, religiously, and occupationally isolated from those who maybe geographically near them. The Mega City is creating dozens of

isolated population enclaves scattered throughout city neighbor-hoods. Western nations are facing phenomenal growth of cities thatare post Christian. Today, 80% of western cities are un-evangelized,

producing a generation that no longer identies with Christian cul-ture or Biblical Worldview. These post-Christian cities house peoplefrom nearly every nation of the world. In Asian, African and MiddleEastern cities, populations are exploding and drawing nearly every

isolated rural people group, having existed outside the reach of the

Church for centuries. These realities have created new Frontiersfor the Gospel. These city islands of complex diversity need to bediscoveredand researched, so that we can expand the Churchs

limit of knowledge or achievement.

We must train, equip, and mobilize a new kind of Urban Missionary;an Urban Frontier Missionary ready to take the Gospel cross-cultur-

ally and learn the complex languages of an Urban World waiting tobe understood, redeemed and mobilized by the Church.

- Brad Stanley,

Director - YWAM Chicago


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Chicago News

school of urban frontiers

$3,400 (tuition, food, housing & outreach)October 2, 2009 toMarch 12, 2010

From Old Testament times, it has been Gods heart that His

people care for the foreigner and sojourner among them.We have an incredible responsibility and opportunity to lovethese foreigners among us and we believe that it all startswith prayer. The Chicago Ethnic Embrace 31 day prayer guideis still available. We continue to have a passion to equip thebody of Christ in Chicago with this key tool.

Each day of the guide features a nation of peoples with sig-nificant representation here in Chicago. A brief synopsis ofthe nation is given about that nations history along with the

history of their arrival in America andhow to specifically pray for them. Theguide will show you where to find

these people in the city as well as anethnic restaurant where you wouldlikely find and meet them.

Contact Emily Bond at 805.400.5846or [email protected] formore information or to purchase cop-ies for your group.

In our Winter 2009 Newsletter we featured our friend Najah. Najah is a Moroccan Muslim

Background Believer (MBB) who lives with a handful of other immigrants on the third oor

of our YWAM building. Thank you for your prayers for Najah and the MBB Bible Study he

leads. The group continues to grow as God uses Najah as His ambassador to Muslims.Please continue to pray for Najah and those attending the study: that they would nd an-

swers to the questions they have about Jesus and those who follow Him.

Ramadan 2009 august 22september 17

Ramadan is a month in the Islamic calender year. During the day Muslims fast

from food, water, smoking, etc. and in the evening they celebrate. This is a key time

to be praying for Muslims because they are particularly seeking God to make spe-

cic revelations to them. We have a free electronic prayer guide (pdf document) avail-

able that will guide you for how to pray specically for Muslims in Chicago. Please

email Emily Bond at [email protected] for a copy of it. Additionally we

will be hosting a time of prayer at our building every Friday of Ramadan at 6:30.

SAVE THE DATE

2009YWAM CHICAGOMINISTRYBANQUET

SATURDAYNovember 7th

Mayfaircommunitychuhrch

dinner is at 6 pm

New Orleans, LouisianaMar 28, 2010 - Aug 15, 2010

www.ywamneworleans.orgurbAn dtS

UDTS is not only for those who are from the ci ty...but for those who have a heart for citie s and a desire to understand the character of God in an increasingl y urban world.

newdate!


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Chicago Ministries

AfterbeingintheYwamTylerSSTprogramandAWAMforafewyearsitwasagreatexperience

tobeabletohelpoutasstudentstaffinChicago.

Wedideverythingfromcarrying80loadsofwa-

terbottlestocookinghotdogsanddoingside-

walkchalkinthelocalparks.Besidesgivingus

somethingtodo,itshowedmehowmuchofa

blessingwecanbetohundredsofpeoplejustby

takinganhourortwotorecognizethem.Afteran

entiresummer,Ireallycametorealizethefunoflivinginacitywithsuchdiversity.Iwasexcited

toseeteenagersmyownageworshipingGod

withunashamedjoyinsomanydifferentways,

somethingthatIreallyadmireaboutmygenera-

tion.Icantrulysaythatitwasaworthwhileex-

perienceandIhopetodoitagainnextyear!

-JordanStanley

rst friday youth night For a long time, we have beentalking about (and you have beenasking for it!) meeting regularlywith youth in the city that havecome to anything YWAM... Fri-day night fellowship, Arts Camp,Missions trips, Take Action, etc.So, we will be gathering on the

rst Friday night of every month.The goal of this group is not toreplace your current churchyouth group! It is a chance to gettogether, talk about what God isdoing in our lives, pray for eachother and even to do outreach to-gether! This is for those who havecompleted 6th grade and up.

First Friday of every month - 7pmKick-off!!! September 4th - 7pm

YWAM Chicago Building - 1721 W. Wallen (in the Bsmt)email [email protected] for more information

Summerstudent-staffersAmandaVennemalla

andJordanStanleywithstafferRuthTroyer.


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Season of Ministry

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YWAM Chicago

PO Box 268408Chicago, IL 60626

Youth With A Mission is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced WYE-wam), our calling is to know God and to make Him known. Back when we began in 1960, our main focus was to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them opportuni-ties to reach out in Jesus name. Today, we still focus on youth, and we also involve people of almost every age (even many people who choose to spend their retirement in activeservice). Our many ministries t into three main categories: evangelism, training and mercy ministry. We are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with astaff of nearly 16,000.

In our last newsletter, we highlighted the motto of thecity of Chicago: A City In A Garden. As we headed

into our summer season of teams doing ministry wewere impressed by a passage in Jeremiah. God wasinstructing the Israelites taken into captivity in Babylonto build houses, plant gardens and ultimately to seekthe welfare of the city. God was instructing his peopleto invest in the community even though it was a for-eign land and a foreign people. Likewise, God desiresfor us to invest in our neighborhood, community andcity as well as our nation. To invest not only in tangiblematerial ways but eternal ways as well.

As the church pursues the welfare of the city thentruely the purposes of God will be released into ourcommunities.

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Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to

Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sonsand daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons

and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent youinto exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will nd your welfare. Jeremiah 29:4-7

CITY IN A GARDEN

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