A Newsletter of Youth With A Mission Chicago

Summer 2009

Colors of Chicago
Reaching the City to Reach the World
Celebrating 17 years of ministry to the nations in Chicago!

6th al ARTS With A Mission

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Ann Summer CAMP

performing &
ministering at
foster beach

performing
& ministering
at Lake Shore
Nurshing Home

sports learning
workshop arts & crafts choreography
workshop
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YWAM Chicago
PO Box 268408
Chicago, IL 60626
ywamchicago@yahoo.com
www.ywamchicago.org
Director: Brad Stanley
Youth With A Mission
Statement of Purpose
YWAM is an international
movement of Christians from
many denominations dedi-
cated to presenting Jesus
Christ personally to this gen-
eration, to mobilizing as many
people as possible to help in
this task, and to the training
and equipping of believers
for their part in fulfilling the
Great Commission. As citizens
of God’s Kingdom we are
called to love, worship and
obey our Lord, to love and
serve His body, the church,
and to present the Whole
Gospel for the whole person
throughout the whole world.
YWAM Chicago
Statement of Purpose
YWAM Chicago is commit-
ted to city-wide ministry and
to the redemption of God’s
design for the modern urban
community. We endeavor to
present 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 the
whole gospel to the whole city
through long-term community
development and short-term
outreaches.
FRONTIER MISSION
For the last 2000 years, Frontier Mission has been the drive of the
Church. The desire to take the Gospel to those who have not heard
and to extend the manifested Glory of God to all nations, tribes, and
peoples has been the defining passion of the Church. It could be
said then, that the clarified mission of God’s people in each genera-
tion is to continually discover and redefine what the current “Fron-
tiers” are for the Gospel and display God’s Kingdom on the Earth.
The Oxford American Dictionary defines frontiers as “the limit of
knowledge or achievement in a particular area.” The American Heri-
tage Dictionary defines it as, “an undeveloped area for discovery or re-
search.” For the last 100 years we have seen global populations shift
from being 20% Urban to being over 50% Urban. Less than 100 years
from now urbanization will reach 90% of the world’s populace. The
21st century will be remembered as the century of urban migration.
Every known nation, language, and people group is now moving
into 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 natural
saturation of the Gospel is taking place. Rather, the nature of the
modern mega city is not natural, relational or social connectivity
within geographic proximity, but greater division, specialization, and
isolation in all social classes. People now exist economically, ethni-
cally, religiously, and occupationally isolated from those who may
be 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 that
are post Christian. Today, 80% of western cities are un-evangelized,
producing a generation that no longer identifies with Christian cul-
ture or Biblical Worldview. These post-Christian cities house people
from nearly every nation of the world. In Asian, African and Middle
Eastern 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 “Frontiers”
for the Gospel. These city islands of complex diversity need to be
“discovered” and “researched”, so that we can expand the Church’s
“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 to
be understood, redeemed and mobilized by the Church.
- Brad Stanley,
Director - YWAM Chicago
 Chicago News
From Old Testament times, it has been God’s heart that His
people care for the foreigner and sojourner among them.
We have an incredible responsibility and opportunity to love
these foreigners among us and we believe that it all starts
with prayer. The Chicago Ethnic Embrace 31 day prayer guide
is still available. We continue to have a passion to equip the
body 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 of
the nation is given about that nation’s history along with the
history of their arrival in America and
how to specifically pray for them. The October 2, 2009 to $3,400 (tuition, food, housing & outreach)
guide will show you where to find March 12, 2010
these people in the city as well as an
ethnic restaurant where you would
likely find and meet them.

Contact Emily Bond at 805.400.5846

or jesseandemily08@yahoo.com for
more information or to purchase cop-
ies for your group.
school of urban frontiers
Ramadan 2009 august 22
september 17
SAVE THE DATE

2009
Ramadan is a month in the Islamic calender year. During the day Muslims fast YWAM CHICAGO
from food, water, smoking, etc. and in the evening they celebrate. This is a key time MINISTRY
to be praying for Muslims because they are particularly seeking God to make spe- BANQUET
cific revelations to them. We have a free electronic prayer guide (pdf document) avail-
able that will guide you for how to pray specifically for Muslims in Chicago. Please SATURDAY
email Emily Bond at jesseandemily08@yahoo.com for a copy of it. Additionally we November 7th
new
will be hosting a time of prayer at our building every Friday of Ramadan at 6:30.
Mayfair date!
In our Winter 2009 Newsletter we featured our friend Najah. Najah is a Moroccan Muslim community
Background Believer (MBB) who lives with a handful of other immigrants on the third floor chuhrch
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. dinner is at 6 pm
Please continue to pray for Najah and those attending the study: that they would find an-
swers to the questions they have about Jesus and those who follow Him.

New Orleans, Louisiana

urban dts Mar 28, 2010 - Aug 15, 2010
www.ywamneworleans.org

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.
 Chicago Ministries
After being in the Ywam Tyler SST program and
AWAM for a few years it was a great experience
to be able to help out as student staff in Chicago.
We did everything from carrying 80 loads of wa-
ter bottles to cooking hot dogs and doing side-
walk chalk in the local parks. Besides giving us
something to do, it showed me how much of a
blessing we can be to hundreds of people just by
taking an hour or two to recognize them. After an
entire summer, I really came to realize the fun of
living in a city with such diversity. I was excited
to see teenagers my own age worshiping God
with unashamed joy in so many different ways,
something that I really admire about my genera-
tion. I can truly say that it was a worth while ex-
perience and I hope to do it again next year!
Summer student-staffers Amanda Vennemalla
-Jordan Stanley and Jordan Stanley with staffer Ruth Troyer.

first friday youth night For a long time, we have been

First Friday of every month - 7pm
Kick-off!!! September 4th - 7pm
YWAM Chicago Building - 1721 W. Wallen (in the Bsmt)
email ywamchicago@yahoo.com for more information
talking about (and you have been
asking for it!) meeting regularly
with youth in the city that have
come to anything YWAM... Fri-
day night fellowship, Arts Camp,
Missions trips, Take Action, etc.
So, we will be gathering on the
first Friday night of every month.
The goal of this group is not to
replace your current church
youth group! It is a chance to get
together, talk about what God is
doing in our lives, pray for each
other and even to do outreach to-
gether! This is for those who have
completed 6th grade and up.
 Season of Ministry

worship downtown
performing
skits in parks

Performing
downtown

praying for the

“Planting gardens audience
in the city”

your photo could

be here...
go to our web site
for more info on
clean up and how to bring a
sidewalk chalk in team to the city
city playlots
 CITY IN A GARDEN
In our last newsletter, we highlighted the motto of the
city of Chicago: A City In A Garden. As we headed
into our summer season of teams doing ministry we
were impressed by a passage in Jeremiah. God was
instructing the Israelites taken into captivity in Babylon
to build houses, plant gardens and ultimately to seek
the welfare of the city. God was instructing his people
to invest in the community even though it was a for-
eign land and a foreign people. Likewise, God desires
for us to invest in our neighborhood, community and
city as well as our nation. To invest not only in tangible
material ways but eternal ways as well.
As the church pursues the welfare of the city then
truely the purposes of God will be released into our
communities.
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 sons
and 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 you
into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. Jeremiah 29:4-7

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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 active
service). 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 a
staff of nearly 16,000.