Chicago 2010
This year’s Urban Immersion features an exciting partnership between Here’s Life Inner City and Chicago’s Metro Campus Team!
Dates: March 7–12 / March 14–19 / March 21–26
Cost: $160 ... covers housing, materials, continental breakfasts, & dinners. (Lunches are on your own.)
Registration:
Use the links below to register for your week of Urban Immersion. Space is limited! Registrations are confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis and require a non-refundable deposit of $50 per person (the remaining $100 can be paid upon arrival).
Register here.
Agape Community Center:
The Agape Community Center is owned by Campus Crusade for Christ. It is our central meeting place during Urban Immersion. Most of our meetings, trainings and celebrations will take place there. Some campus groups will be housed there. Many groups will have the opportunity to minister there throughout the week. For more about the Agape Community Center visit www.hlicchicago.org
Housing:
Groups are housed at different urban churches/ministries and are provided sleeping mats or cots. Some groups may have to drive a short distance to shower using city park facilities. For example:
Twenty-five people from Indiana University stay at Roseland Christian Reform Church. They sleep in two different meeting rooms with sleeping bags and mats. They pack up their stuff each morning and store it for the day because the church is still in use. They eat breakfast downstairs near the kitchen. There are several restrooms but only two showers so some shower in the morning and some at night. The church is about five minutes from the Agape Center where we meet each day.
Transportation:
You are responsible for your own automobile transportation during Urban Immersion. Groups should either coordinate rides using their own cars or plan to rent vehicles upon arrival to Chicago via plane or train.
More: Sample Schedule • Things to Bring • What Kind of Ministry Will We Be Doing? • Testimonies • Slideshow
Sample Schedule:
Sunday
Registration
Dinner
Orientation
Monday
Evangelism Training and Outreach
Tour Pacific Garden Mission
Dinner in Chinatown
Tuesday
Metro Campus/Urban Church Ministry
Dinner and Night on the Town — Free Time!
Wednesday
Racial Unity Discussion
Metro Campus/Urban Church Ministry
Worship/Testimony Service
Thursday
Metro Campus/Urban Church Ministry
Final Celebration
Friday
Clean up and out by 10 a.m.
Things to Bring:
Bible, sleeping bag, pillow, toiletries, towel, gym shoes, work clothes, casual wear, money for lunches, gas and other minor expenses.
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What Kind of Ministry Will We Be Doing?
You will share the gospel on Metro college campuses, energizing established movements or helping to launch new movements. For example:
Twelve students from Jackson State University use surveys to share the gospel in the food court at Chicago State University helping to launch an IMPACT movement there.
You will also serve alongside urban churches/ministries as they minister to kids, teens, adults and seniors who are in need. For example:
Fifteen students from Denton Bible Church do a work project at Bethel Lutheran in the morning, painting walls in their activity center. In the afternoon these 15 students serve at LaVillita Community Church’s afterschool program for 1st-6th graders. They play games with kids, help them with their homework, and facilitate a Bible lesson.
You will also participate in way-of-life evangelism — sharing the gospel as a part of everyday life. For example:
Eight students from University of Arizona take a two-hour ride on public transportation sharing the gospel with people as they go. Or these students take their clothes to the laundromat sharing the gospel while they wait for their clothes to dry.
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Testimonies:
At the Harold Washington College cafeteria Ian and I did a survey with an African-American guy named Robert. He wanted to know more, so we went through the gospel tract and spoke with him for awhile — good discussion. He received Christ into his life! He’s now planning on attending Crusade services.
This was my first time experiencing anyone coming to Christ — very unexpected and encouraging. God showed me what he can do when I am feeling incapable and inadequate.
— Andrea from Truman State University
We were out on the town for our free time. We met a homeless man named Roland outside of Dunkin Donuts and bought him some food and talked to him. He asked us to pray with and for him. We believed him when he told us he was a Christian and loved the Lord. And now he spends his days telling young people to stay in school and put God first in their lives.
He had so little but still loved the Lord and claimed that his residency is in heaven, not here. It really made me realize how much I take for granted everyday when God’s the most important thing.
— Maryann from James Madison University
Slideshow
Check out a slideshow from Urban Immersion 2008. You can use it to help you recruit members for your group!
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