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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 fulfilling theGreat Commission. As citizensof God’s 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 God’sdesign 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 our city, and to seek to bring thewhole gospel to the whole citythrough long-term communitydevelopment and short-term

outreaches.

Living in the city for 18 years, I have become overwhelmingly convinced that

God lives in the city, that He loves the city, and that His presence can be seenand felt in the city. Its one of the reasons why we have put this page in our news-letters, in hope that it might bring some perspective on how God feels aboutthe city and what He may be doing in the urbanization of the earth. However, itwould be inaccurate to say that this rural East Texas boy came to that realiza-

tion easily.

The first several months in the big city was hard. My wife Sherry and I were lead-ing a pioneer team of 11, trying to establish YWAM in Chicago. It wasn ’t hardto see that God wanted to reach the masses of people, but I began to strugglewith hearing God’s voice and experiencing His presence in all the distraction.I missed those quiet meditative times of solitude that I had enjoyed with theLord over the years. You just simply could not find it in the busyness of the city.Outside the window of our studio the “el” train rumbled by every 3-5 minutes 24hours a day. There was noise and domestic fights in our 50 unit apartment build-ing through most nights. Street lights were always on. Police and emergencysirens could be heard constantly. On top of that we had drug dealers and pros-titutes outside our window calling to people all the time. How was I supposed to

have a “quiet time” with the Lord!?

I was drying up inside. I couldn’t seem to refuel in the Lord as I had done be-fore. One day I got really frustrated with God. I simply told Him that He had toprovide some quiet isolated environment for me on a daily basis so that I couldmeet with Him. I remember Him directing me to go and have my “quiet time” forthe next several days on Devon street near our apartment. This street happens

to be the busiest street in our neighborhood in the middle of the Asian Indiandistrict. It was definitely not what I was asking for. But, out of obedience I wentwith my Bible and sat on a park bench for several days trying to seek the Lord.It was really hard at first. All the noises, smells, and presence of people walkingall around me made it very difficult to focus on God. Before long I began to real-ize two things. First, how to filter out the world and noise around me. Secondly,and even more surprisingly, how to hear and see God in the faces of the peopleand noises of the world around me. I found that even in the busiest place I couldexperience God’s presence and hear His voice. My “quiet times” became dy-namic. I felt as if God was sitting there with me in the middle of all that activity. AsI read the scriptures, God’s word had instant application in the faces and actions

of the people around me.

I believe this Urban generation is longing to discover God in this way. Many willnever be able to retreat from busy, noisy environments to be with God. And forthose that do get that rare chance, and discover God in isolated environments,how will they hear Him when they return to city life? They want to know if God’spresence can be felt in the busy world of the city. We must define the art of being“alone with God“, “spending time with God” and “sharing intimately with God” asinternal realities and not merely External realities. 90% of the world’s populationwill be living in cities by the end of the century. If we do not disciple them in thisinternal, vibrant walk with God despite of their environment; they will be doomedto live in a shallow and barren relationship with their God. The dwelling place of

God is with men. Let’s learn how to hang out in His living room.

- Brad Stanley, Director YWAM Chicago



Chicago News

arts with a mission camp

He interceded for the Hebrews that God might not destroy them. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it didn’t rain for three and a half years. He pleaded he would not die and God gave him fifteen more years. He slipped away often to pray in the morning. They devoted themselves to ... prayer. And he admonishes us in Ephesians six after teaching on armor that we must be “...praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints”.

Proverbs 29:18 says, “where there is no vision the people perish” which we agree is true. Inour ministry we’re not suffering for lack of vision, but for the abundance of it! We need peopleto pray with us to see the vision birthed. Starting in May we will send out monthly prayer updates (and post on the web) with some prayer specifics. William Temple said, “When I pray,coincidences happen, and when I don’t pray, they don’t.” We want to see things happen!

If you would like to receive this prayer update via email, please send an email [email protected].

monthly prayer updates

Family Night Join us on Sunday evenings at 5:30 at the base

for a pot-luck meal and fellowship time.Questions? Contact Ruth @ 773.807.0972.This is a great way to get to know YWAM alumni,

staff, volunteers and friends of YWAM.

J u n e 2 8 - J u l y 2

Monday, Aug 2 - Friday, Aug 6, 2010

Participants: 10 - 18 yrsLocation & Cost: TBA

Contact: 847-680-1581 [email protected]

YWAM ChicagoKA Youth Summer Retreat

a week long day camp ages 6 - 18(Kindergarten is a prerequisite)

$130 camp fee per participantRegistration fee:

$15 per family/($25 after June 1)Location: First Evangelical Free Church

5255 N Ashland Ave.SPACE LIMITED: register early!!

www.ywamchicago.org

773.807.0972

new websitewww.ywamchicago.org



Chicago Ministries

Back Row:Rodger KistlerMesha Schall

Loretta Troyer

Paul PatlurKatrina Kistler

3rd Row:

John MartindaleSteve Niles

Bronwen Niles

2nd Row

Jordan StanleyBrad Stanley

Joe Stanley

Front Row:

Jesse JohnstonKristy Bowman

Hayley WestbrookJoel Thomas

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Mesha grew up in YWAM(New Orleans, Texas andAsia). She helped us startthe Arts With A Mission campin Chicago and first came tostaff that camp when shewas 13 years old and con-tinued helping every yearuntil she went to Asia withher family, followed by DTSand SOE with outreach-es in the States and Asia.She just completed YWAMChicago’s School of UrbanFrontiers and is now helpingwith UDTS in New Orleans.

The YWAM Tyler city ministries in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans,and Chicago have teamed up to pioneer an Urban DiscipleshipTraining School (UDTS) at the New Orleans campus. It start-ed on March 28! The Stanley’s will be directing the school and,

along with Loretta, Mesha, and Paul have traveled down to NewOrleans to help launchYWAM Tyler’s first Urban DTS.

As the world continues to urbanize at a phenomenal rate, thereis an increasing need to disciple this generation on how to knowGod and make Him known in an Urban World. The students spentthe 1st week discovering how to seek the Lord, hear His voice,and walk in Intercession for the Nations. They were challengedto take these realities and live them out in a city context. They didthis by having Quiet Times and Intercession Times in some of themost broken and busiest parts of the city, like New Orleans’ Bour-

bon Street and Jackson Square. They have already begun tohear God’s voice and experience His presence in a World wheremany believe He does not exist. It has been equally encourag-ing to see them already taking the things they are learning aboutthe Lord’s character in Class and sharing it with people on thestreets.

Please continue to pray for these students and the multiplicationof the Urban DTS so we might see this generation mobilized withthe Heart of God to the Nations.

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Paul has been interacting with

YWAM Chicago for quite awhile.He was part of the Friday Night Bi-

ble studies for Asian Indian youthand has traveled the world with us

to India, Uganda and to minister

to Native Americans in Oklahoma.He also completed Discipleship

Training School (DTS), School ofEvangelism (SOE) and School of

Worship (SOW). Each of theseschools are 5 months long and

include a 2 month outreach.These outreaches took Paul toPeru, Haiti and North East United

States. Paul is staffing the UDTSin New Orleans and then will be

working with us here in Chicagofor the summer.





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 fit 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.

Non Profit Org

US postagePAID

Chicago, IL

Permit No. 2010

PAINTING THE RIVER GREENEvery March in Chicago, in celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day, the city dyes the Chicago river GREEN! Froma few hundred residents in the 1830s, Chicago emerged as the fourth largest Irish city in America by 1860.

Chicago’s Irish grew up and exerted their influence over the city. Their labor on canals, lumber wharves,railroads, stockyards, and steel mills contributed to Chicago’s phenomenal growth from a frontier town to an

urban metropolis. Today roughly 6.6% of the population of Chicago are of Irish descent. There is even theaffectionate term “Chi-rish” for the Chicago-Irish!

So who is this venerated Saint from Ireland that we celebrate? Would you be suprised to know he wasn’tIrish? Saint Patrick was an English boy who was kidnapped from his home and taken as a slave to workin Ireland. He primarily worked isolated and afraid in the hills as a shepherd and began to call out to God.

God led him to escape and return to England. After working to catch up on his primary studies he studiedthe Bible and his heart began to break for the Irish people who didn’t know Jesus. So, against everyone’sadvice, Saint Patrick left England for Ireland to become its first bishop and within a short time the EmeraldIsle was transformed into what tour guides in Downpatrick call “a Christian nation”.

God brought the gospel to Ireland through an English boy. And He brought the gospel to England through

another people and He brought the gospel to America from Europe. God desires all nations and all peoplesto come to Him and he gifts and calls one nation to bring the light and liberty of the gospel to another na-tion. This is our heart in Chicago, to see nations blessing each other with the gospel and carrying that light

back to their nation. With hundreds of nations represented in Chicago that could mean a lot of blessing andkingdom expansion!

“...they shall declare my glory among the nations. And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD ... to my holy mountain Jerusalem”.

- Isaiah 66:19-20

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