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Chicago, Illinois

For practical purposes, Chicagoland also encompasses a portion of Northern Indiana (Lake County, IN)

 

It is interesting to see how the Lord is working to bring His Church together in various parts of the Chicago metro area:

 

• ILLINOIS Christian.com -- connecting site for Illinois Christians.
• Fox Valley (Aurora, Tri-CIties, Elgin, Valley North) are banding together for "Let's Go!" as part of Loving Our Communities to Christ
• Lake County is coming together as never before as Catalyst
• The Alpha Invitation is running in Lake County (see below)
• Young Adult Alpha Course starting Sept 25, 7-9PM @ Austin's Saloon in Libertyville.  Seven young adult ministeries are working together to be a part of this exciting course aimed at reaching the "lost" young adults in Lake County.  For more information please contact: Eric Lerew eric@fusionchurch.com  
• Bless Your Block endeavors to motivate city congregations to get out of their seats into the streets.
• 1chicago.net  The seeds of a city-wide starting point for Christians in Chicago. For now, the emphasis is on youth ministries, and there is a lik to a somewhat dated calendar.  If you are interested in helping, please contact JP Paulus at jp(at)1chicago.net
• Urban Youth Network  Urban Youth Workers -- this is the place to connect. E-mail Brian Dye of Vision Nehemiah for the latest updates.
• Exodus 20:13 A coalition of churches in the city, focusing on stopping the violence, especially murders.
• Vision 360 Network
• Reload Chicago - part of the "Road" 1 day  training conferences for urban youth workers.  Sponsored nationally by the Urban Youth Workers Institute.  Chicago's Reload is Saturday, April 5, 2008, at North Park University.
• (From Neil:  Hopefully we can find some good CCDA-related links here in Chicagoland, since it was founded in Chicago in the Lawndale area.  Help anyone?)

 

CHICAGO tags

 

Pray for successful collaboration!

 

Phil Miglioratti 

 

Added Aug 29th...

 

The Alpha Invitation in Lake County

 

An Alpha Invitation in Lake County, IL where Alpha USA's central offices now reside was announced at the Catalyst meeting in April.  Time, money and prayer have been invested to increase the visibility of the Alpha course this fall.  Billboards, Metra station posters, bus-tails, movie theaters, yard signs, posters and car magnets have been seen this August, and we are praying that God moves on the hearts of the people who see the message and get invited to the Introductory Alpha Dinner.

 

VISION

 

PURPOSE

To raise awareness of the Alpha Course through mass advertising

Benefits:

•   More churches run the course.  In Lake County, IL, we have already seen a 170% increase in church courses (over 30)

•   The campaign, commercial, and churches/courses working together give the Alpha Course credibility and Christians are encouraged to invite their friends.  For example, Eddie from Christ Church, Lake Forest told us this,"...the yard signs, bumper stickers and posters have been generating all kinds of questions from people. It has given us great opportunity to share what Alpha has done for us and our faith, and to invite people we may not otherwise even conversed with. Also, there was a lot of talk at the movie theater during the ads. God is moving..."

•    It demonstrates to people that the churches are working together and we are promised that where there is unity, there will also be blessing (Psalm 133)

•    Brand recognition leading to more response to invitations from local Christians, to the ‘Introductory Dinner’ – typically, the Alpha Invitation results in a 100% increase in response rate

•    More ‘seekers’ and ‘back sliders’ attend the course leading to more disciples for Christ

 

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For more information about the Alpha Invitation please contact: Rebecca Long info@alphausa.org

Alpha's website: www.alphausa.org  

 

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[Editorial Note from Neil... I LOVED this little Alpha video-clip at YouTube.]

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Below added on June 2nd...

Bless Your Block

 

Time to  . . . Get out of our seats into the streets!"

 

 

 

How about this great pic from Indianapolis recently? "Who can clean-up neighborhoods the fastest?"

 

[Phil... Here's a wiki-page re a NEIGHBORHOOD-focused ministry here in Indy... actually by one of our Crossroads Bible College profs who lives there... and will be getting the 'Crimefighter of the Year' award in his police-district.  Thought you'd enjoy seeing the model.]

 

(and here's a page we've started over in our AskAnythingSaturday wiki, for helping guys learn to wiki.  You're welcome to delete the link when it's no longer useful to you.)

 

 

 

Pray for Your City/State/Province Jeremiah 29:1-13

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 ABOUT 7X7

 

Are you willing to commit to pray for our country seven days a week? Are you able to set aside time in your car, during your coffee break, or before bedtime? We want to challenge you make this prayer commitment.

 

7x7 involves praying for seven centers of power seven days a week: Government, Military, Media, Business, Education, Church and Family. By remembering these specific prayer points, we can cover all Americans with God's power.

 

Together, we will see positive change!

 

 

 

 

REMEMNBER Also the Global Day of Prayer - May 17 - 26

 

 

GDoP - PRAYER GUIDE

 

 

 7 x 7 -- is also posted at  City Reaching Churches for North America blog.

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Global Day of Prayer USA

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