City Scape

YWAM Chicago

PO Box 268408Chicago, IL 60626ywamchicago@yahoo.comwww.ywamchicago.orgDirector: Brad Stanley

Youth With A MissionStatement 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 believers

for their part in fulﬁlling the

Great Commission. As citizensof God’s Kingdom we arecalled to love, worship andobey our Lord, to love andserve His body, the church,and to present the WholeGospel for the whole personthroughout the whole world.

YWAM ChicagoStatement of Purpose

YWAM Chicago is commit-ted to city-wide ministry andto 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-termoutreaches.

The city can be a place of great celebration. One ofthe gifts of the city is its power to celebrate. All around

the city are lights, music, and streets ﬁlled with sentimen

-tal reminders of joy, hope and memories with family. Cit-ies create atmosphere, either for good or bad. The di-verse and creative community of the mega city cancreate life, but for those who are broken and discon-nected, the city can accentuate that disconnection.Thanksgiving and Christmas are times to remember the im-portant things God has given us such as family, hope for the

future, and life ﬁlled with the promise of joy and salvation. For

the broken among us the season is simply a loud reminder ofthings lost and broken, and an overwhelming hopelessnessin the future. Psalms 68:6 says that “God places the lonelyin families”. God has purposed that all men should be con-nected to the grace He provides through relationships. Com-munity is created by God to provide a refuge of relation-ships for the outcast, the poor, and the disconnected.(Duet16:14; 26:13; Isa 58:6-7; Matt 25:35-36) God is bringingthe brokenness of humanity out of isolation into the city

so they may ﬁnd His grace and healing.(Acts 17:26-27)

All around us are thousands of homeless; refugees and im-migrants separated from their families; and hundreds ofthousands of children and adults from broken homes. TheWorld works hard to marginalize and isolate the broken hu-manity that throngs to the cities. Christmas reminds us thatthe Creator and Sustainer of the Universe gave up what He

had a right to, put on human ﬂesh and walked among our

brokenness,. He came to heal and buy back, with His verylife, what He originally intended for our lives. May He do thesame today through us. Perhaps in us, Jesus will be able to

put on ﬂesh this Christmas, like He did 2000 years ago, and

walk the broken streets of our cities. May He give us thegrace to be a family to someone without one and providea community of grace for those who no longer see the Onewho walked among us giving hope and salvation to Man.By Brad StanleyDirector, YWAM Chicago

Chicago News

From Old Testament times, it has been God’s heart that His peo-ple care for the foreigner and sojourner among them. We havean incredible responsibility and opportunity to love these foreign-ers among us and we believe that it all starts with prayer. TheChicago Ethnic Embrace 31 day prayer guide is still available.We continue to have a passion to equip the body of Christ inChicago with this key tool.Each day of the guide features a nation of peoples with sig-nificant representation here in Chicago. A brief synopsis of thenation is given about that nation’s history along with the historyof their arrival in America and how to specifically pray for them.

New Orleans, LouisianaMar 28, 2010 - Aug 15, 2010 www.ywamneworleans.org

URBAN DTS

UDTS is not only for those who are from the city...but for those who have a heart for cities and a desire to understand the character of God in an increasingly urban world.

The guide will show you where to find these people in the city as well as an ethnic restaurant where you would likely find andmeet them.

For more info email Emily Bond at jesseandemily08@yahoo.com

First Friday of every month - 7pm YWAM Chicago Building1721 W. Wallen (in the Bsmt)email ywamchicago@yahoo.com for more information

ﬁrst friday youth night