Following is a list of agencies that we partner with throughout the year. The Community Outreach team provides a Christ Church liason to each organization to ensure that our volunteers have adequate preparation, whether provided by us or by the local agency. The result we trust will be effective service and ministry to others and personal growth in our own spiritual journeys.
If you have any general questions regarding these opportunities, please contact the agency liason or e-mail
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Bethany Christian Services
971 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL
Ministry
The Chicago office is one of five branches out of 75 in the United States that offers services in the areas of domestic and international adoptions, crisis pregnancy counseling, interim and foster care for infants and children and a multitude of other supportive services.
Opportunities
Foster Care and Adoptive Families
Source needed to obtain items for babies in interim care
Assist with special events
Liaison
Jim Vanden Berge (630) 538-0563
CareNet Pregnancy Services of DuPage
671 N. Cass Avenue, Westmont, IL
Ministry
Offering personal help within a compassionate setting to women in crisis, CareNet counselors are available to talk with women who may not be aware of their options. Care Net provides information and support to women who are in need and to their families. They also recruit and train familiesto provide a home for any woman who wants to give birth to her baby, but has no supportive place to go.
Opportunities
Client Services
Counseling
Speakers Bureau
Liaison
Joan Jurgens (630) 920-1748
Christ's Vineyard
2716 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Ministry
Christ's Vineyard, along with the Christian school and Community Center, serves the families of the Humboldt Park area by providing various ministries and family services.
Opportunities
General construction and rehab
Tutors needed for children grade K-8
Speakers for school in-service workshops
Liaison
Joyce Kezerle (708) 460-3956
CNS Hospice
690 E. North Ave., Carol Stream , IL
Ministry
This hospice serves DuPage and western Cook counties. Hospice is the concept and practice of compassionate health care for patients and families dealing with the final stages of a severe illness.
Opportunities
Helpers
Office support and data entry
Community education
Thrift shop clerks
Liaison
Sally Stevenson (630) 443-6923
DuPage Habitat for Humanity
213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL
Ministry
Thisis a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. DuPage HFH serves DuPage County and works in partnership with people in need tobuild modest and affordable housing. The houses are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest.
Opportunities
Construction Helpers
Eight Operating Committees
Office Support and Data Entry
Liaison
Elmore Taylor (630) 858-5489
DuPage P.A.D.S., Inc.
705 W. Liberty St., Wheaton, IL
Ministry
DuPage Public Action to Deliver Shelter, Inc. provides safe and hospitable shelter, support services, and advocacy for homeless persons. This is done in collaboration with church and community groups in DuPage County. The philosophy of P.A.D.S. is derived from the biblical Hebrew, hesed, which describes God's unconditional and everlasting love and justice. In the P.A.D.S. program hesed means a movement of those concerned with the dignity, survival and reclamation of the homeless, hungry, and hopeless not served by conventional human service agencies.
Opportunities
Donate/Serve Monthly Meals
Office Assistance and Data Entry
Liaison
Doug Nelson (630) 833-7116
Gideon's International
P.O. Box 512, Elmhurst, IL
Ministry
The mission of this organization is to lead men, women, boys and girls to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ by witnessing and distributing Bibles and New Testaments.
Opportunities
Born again business andprofessional men who are members of Christ Church and wish to become involved in this ministry can contact one of the liaisons listed below.
Liaison
John Kratochvil (630) 325-5385
Bob Dvorak (630) 257-6520
Ken Dry (630) 887-7684
Greater Chicago Sunday School Association
P.O. Box 61, Elmhurst, IL
Ministry
The Greater Chicago Sunday School Association provides resources for Sunday School teachers and Christian Education workers in the Chicago area. It does so through teacher training, providing books and other literature, and general support services to teachers and those in Christian Education. The GCSSA is especially instrumental in providing support for teachers in churches with limited resources.
Opportunities
Assist at church ministry training events as an usher, at information/resource booths, serving meals etc.
Liaison
Bob West (630) 833-6568
Inner City Impact
2704 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL
Ministry
Bill Dillon founded Inner City Impact (ICI) in 1972. ICI’s goal is to instill a Christian value system in inner-city young people, which will help them resist the gangs and much of the hopelessness within the inner-city. Today, ICI’s two facilities, one on the near northwest side of Chicago and one in the Logan Square community, provide a safe haven for inner-city children and youth. Through after-school programs, athletic activities, relationship building, small group activities, one-on-one mentoring, home visitations, camping programs, internships, and college scholarships, ICI is reaching and teaching the children and youth in the community.
Opportunities
Discipleship Group Leaders
Tutors for children in grades K-12
Camp staff
Phone Marketing at annual Phon-A-Thon
Liaison
Bonnie Slusarski (630) 851-5659
LOVE Christian Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 50, Clarendon Hills, IL
Ministry
This organization is an inter-denominational network of 91 churches. Its service area covers 18 towns in Addison, York, Downers Grove and Lisle townships. LOVE works with churches, agencies and individual volunteers in DuPage County to link people in need directly with the organizationsor persons best suited to provide effective help. LOVE links community and church resources to appropriately serve verified, specific and manageable unmet needs of persons in the community. For more information, see their website at: www.love-cc.org
Opportunities
Phone and office assistants
Liaison
Ann McCarthy (630) 953-1213
NewLife Food Inc.
1130 67th St., Downers Grove, IL 60515
Ministry
A local mission that serves the community by collecting food and clothing from available corporate, non-profit services and individual sources; and transports these items to selected pantries and distribution centers that serve the needy in the Chicagoland area.
Opportunities
Food gathering (groups/individuals)
Drivers to pick-up donated items
Food delivery
Liaison
Bruce Miller (708) 788-4848
Northern Illinois Food Bank
600 Industrial Dr., St. Charles, IL
Ministry
The center opened in 1983 and began distributing 7,000 pounds of food among seven agencies in DuPage County. The Center distributed over 3.3 million pounds of food to over 200 agencies during the last fiscal year. Through these agencies it reaches an average of 100,000 people monthly with food necessary to health and life. Its mission is to alleviate hunger in the suburbs by soliciting, sorting and distributing donated food to not-for-profit social agencies dedicated to fighting hunger in their own communities.
Opportunities
Food Sorters
Drivers to pick-up donated food
Phone and office assistance
Liaison
Camille Nelson (630) 833-7116
People's Resource Center (PRC)
1506 E. Roosevelt Road, Wheaton, IL
Ministry
PRC exists to respond to basic human needs, promote dignity and justice and create a future of hope and opportunity for the residents of DuPage County through discovering and sharing personal and community resources.
Opportunities
Food pantry
Office assistance
Computer literacy and access
English tutors
Shuttle drivers
Liaison
Doug Nelson (630) 833-7116
Riverwood Christian Center
35W701 Riverwoods Lane, St. Charles, IL 60174
Ministry
Since 1977, Riverwoods Christian Center has been mobilizing a Christian caring force of staff and volunteers to minister to the economically disadvantaged people of the Fox River Valley and Aurora. Its multifaceted ministry includes Community Advocates who work daily in low-income neighborhoods; Children’s Discipleship Clubs and teen leadership programs that meet weekly during the school year; a summer camp where children are offered a healthy, fun-filled camping experience; and a ministry of support to local churches.
Opportunities
Cleaning offices, dorms and chalet
Building trades
Plumbing, electrical and mechanical
New construction and maintenance
Seasonal ground maintenance
Liaison
Phil Carlson (708) 246-5774
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