A New Life for 2019

A New Life for 2019

Happy New Year! If you partied in the new year with friends, family, and loved ones, you are not alone. A large portion of the globe gathers together with those they care about to celebrate the coming of a new year and the unspoiled promises it brings. Maybe you are also among one of many

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City-Wide Training

City-Wide Training

Our city needs Jesus! Our need for Jesus is apparent by the unseeingly bridled sin that rampages through our streets, schools, and businesses. On the same day as our training, only a few blocks from the HUB there was a man who was shot by police because he was trying to rob a restaurant. The

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A Boy in a Tree

A Boy in a Tree

We were blessed to see God do great things this summer both through our Christian Youth In Action® program and fifty-five 5-Day Club® outreaches.  Over 1,200 boys and girls participated in these clubs, all of whom were presented with the life changing gospel and were challenged to have their lives “Turned Around” by trusting Jesus

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Jesus Already Did Forgive My Sins!

Jesus Already Did Forgive My Sins!

This true account was written by one of our CYIA summer missionaries who spent the summer teaching 5-Day Clubs. When I first noticed Lisa and her younger sister Jenny (names changed), 12-year-old Lisa had seven-year-old Jenny sitting in her lap. Lisa’s hair was windblown, and her jeanslooked a size too big. Who is caring for

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Sharing Freedom on Independence Day

Sharing Freedom on Independence Day

Happy Independence Day! We are so thankful to be able to live and minister in a country where we can be free. We are grateful to God that we can freely share the love of Christ in front and backyards at 5-Day Clubs in the Summer and in public schools during the school year. We

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Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday

CEF’s practice is to ask God and tell His people. As you consider where to give this Giving Tuesday, please consider giving to Chicago CEF. With over 1.1 million children in Cook and DuPage Counties, there are many who need to hear the good news of the gospel this Christmas season and every day. Our

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Exciting News

Exciting News

Thursday at a Good News Club in a Chicago Public school, a boy named Daniel came with some exciting news: he had lost a tooth. He left club with some even more exciting news. Another boy, Jude, is a very intelligent child, and learned something this Thursday that blew his mind. I was teaching the

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Reaching Urban Kids for Christ

Reaching Urban Kids for Christ

Happy Independence Day! We have much to celebrate in our country and in the ministry. For 23 months, Chicago CEF prayed, worked, and waited to make the HUB dream a reality, and now it is! Chicago CEF now owns the property on 12th & Madison that we call the Housing Urban Ministry Building, or HUB

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The City that Prays Together

The City that Prays Together

God is moving in the Village of Maywood. The current Mayor of Maywood is a strong Christian woman, and today she called the village together to pray. She instructed the police to block off the street in front of her office, put up a podium with a microphone in the middle of the street and invited

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