"Hope for the Hood" will center around, training and equipping Youth and Adults to be able to effectively reach people of other ethnic groups, and help them to build loving relationships with people of other races and cultures, in order to reach them for Christ.
The students and their youth leaders will be housed here in the city, and spend their days in the inner city communities of Chicago, working with New Hope, and conducting a number of outreach activities designed to reach people with the Gospel, and develop lasting relationships.
As part of the outreach, each participant will receive 10 hours of intense training in how to reach people cross-culturally, and how to reach people in an urban context. They will also learn the most effective ways to communicate their faith in a way others can relate to.
Your Ministry Week
- Monday through Friday community
outreaches include:
- Backyard Bible clubs conducted
throughout the West-side of Chicago.
- Evangelistic community clean-ups.
- 3-on- 3 basketball tournaments with
urban youth.
- The evening rallies are geared to
strengthen and encourage the Youth.
The weekend includes:
- Ministry to the homeless
- Free Community Picnic, Concert,
Carnival and 3-on-3 B-ball Tournament.
- Morning service at New Hope Bible
Church
-To engage in a Church-wide evangelistic
opportunity for the people of New Hope in
carrying out its Mission.
-To provide a week long Urban Missions
opportunity to train, equip, and inspire Believers
from outside of the inner city to assist New Hope
in ministering to all nationalities and races in the
inner city, and possibly return someday.
-To provide people with the practical experience
to reach people of other nationalities and races
when they return home to their own communities
- To earn the right to address people’s spiritual
needs, by doing something special for all of the
families of the community in a practical &
relevant way.
- To make Christ known among the lost, and
integrate each new Believer into the body and life of New Hope Bible Church.
- To take the Christians beyond the 4 walls of the
Church, to demonstrate Gods love in a practical,
caring and enjoyable way to a community
characterized by pain, brokenness and despair.
- The inner city of Chicago has some of the neediest communities in the country. It has an extremely high concentration of poverty and urban plight, where the love of God is needed, to penetrate the darkness.
- Over 50% of the community is under the age of 21 and it has the worst high schools in Country with an extremely high drop out rate.
- The community has the highest reported incidents of teen pregnancy and HIV in the city of Chicago; 50% of the teenage girls become pregnant before the age of 18.
- There are 50,000 of homeless people who live on the streets in the city, and in the parks around the West-side.
- Though the community is blighted, it is not without hope. Many good churches have faithfully given hope to people in need. New Hope Church has ministered to the needs of people on the west-side since 1989 and is coordinating "Hope for the Hood" 2012 to make a dramatic impact for the cause of Jesus, through -out the west-side.
Hope for the Hood
Arrival: Sunday, June 24th 2012 3 p.m.
Depart: Sunday July 1st 1 p.m.
Price: $449 per person: Call about scholarships
Price includes:
• Orientation • Materials for ministry
• Housing (7 days) • Ministry T-shirt
• Three meals a day (M-S) • Chicago Style Pizza
• Training manual • Sightseeing downtown
• Spiritual Life Journal Navy Pier, Hancock etc.
The price does not include travel to and from Chicago or admission to sightseeing attractions.
* At least one adult with every 7-10 students
(Adult leaders must be at least 21 years old)
* All group reservations must include a Group
Reservation Form signed by the Senior Pastor or
Elder
* Those who have their $100 per person non
refundable deposit in by April 15, will receive a
5% discount on each person attending.
* Reservation fees are non-refundable but are
transferable to another student.
- Full payment is due on or before June 1, 2012
Hope for the Hood 2012
- We are planning to have hundreds of high school students and youth leaders from across the U.S. come to Chicago to be involved in evangelism, outreach and training.
- "Hope for the Hood" is a Local Church Urban mission. (non para-church)
- Experience Chicagos inner-city for a week of intense ministry.
- Learn from and work with people who were born and raised in the inner-city.
- Work with gang members and kids who are very open to the gospel.
- Touch the lives of hurting and lonely homeless and street people.
- Watch God change Your life!
