DISCUSSION FORUMS
MAIN MENU
Home
Help
Advanced Search
Recent Posts
Site Statistics
Who's Online
Forum Rules
Bible Resources
• Bible Study Aids
• Bible Devotionals
• Audio Sermons
Community
• ChristiansUnite Blogs
• Christian Forums
• Facebook Apps
Web Search
• Christian Family Sites
• Top Christian Sites
• Christian RSS Feeds
Family Life
• Christian Finance
• ChristiansUnite KIDS
Shop
• Christian Magazines
• Christian Book Store
Read
• Christian News
• Christian Columns
• Christian Song Lyrics
• Christian Mailing Lists
Connect
• Christian Singles
• Christian Classifieds
Graphics
• Free Christian Clipart
• Christian Wallpaper
Fun Stuff
• Clean Christian Jokes
• Bible Trivia Quiz
• Online Video Games
• Bible Crosswords
Webmasters
• Christian Guestbooks
• Banner Exchange
• Dynamic Content

Subscribe to our Free Newsletter.
Enter your email address:

ChristiansUnite
Forums
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 29, 2024, 04:27:56 AM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
Our Lord Jesus Christ loves you.
286776 Posts in 27568 Topics by 3790 Members
Latest Member: Goodwin
* Home Help Search Login Register
+  ChristiansUnite Forums
|-+  Theology
| |-+  Prophecy - Current Events (Moderator: admin)
| | |-+  Ministry Sees Lives Changed, Hope Renewed Through Urban Outreach
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: Ministry Sees Lives Changed, Hope Renewed Through Urban Outreach  (Read 833 times)
nChrist
Global Moderator
Gold Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 64256


May God Lead And Guide Us All


View Profile
« on: June 16, 2005, 12:46:57 AM »

Ministry Sees Lives Changed, Hope Renewed Through Urban Outreach

by Allie Martin
June 14, 2005

(AgapePress) - The urban ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, a division called "Here's Life Inner City" (HLIC) is allowing volunteers to share Christ's love and hope with urban communities in a practical way.

HLIC was formed in the late 1970s as a way to meet the spiritual and physical needs of those in the inner city. The ministry provides supplies and clothing for the homeless and also supplies full dinners known as "Boxes of Love" for the needy during Thanksgiving. The ministry also helps local churches set up clothing distribution programs, after-school programs, and career help.

Ted Gandy, National Director for HLIC, says the ministry seeks to combine both the Great Commission and the great commandment in its outreach efforts, and urban areas are major mission fields.

"Our purpose is to serve and mobilize the Church to live out God's heart for the poor," Gandy says. But, the ministry has diverse projects for meeting a variety of needs, the director adds, noting, "We do a lot of things. We're helping churches set up after-school programs, and we're doing quite a bit in the area of life skills and job training."

Another area "Here's Life" involves itself in is leadership development. Felis Meeks, a one-time gang member who grew up near Chicago, began attending an HLIC program in order to play basketball after school. The ministry introduced him to Christ, and now the inner-city native says his life has changed for ever.

Meeks' gradual spiritual transformation has culminated in his growing ministry to other at-risk youth. "As I began to grow," he recalls, "I began to know what God had for my life, and I knew I had been called to ministry. I was dealing with the youth, and as I began to study and trust in God, He began to lead me back to the old neighborhood where I grew up."

Gandy sees Felis Meeks as a living illustration of an important principle he sees demonstrated in the work of HLIC all the time. "No one is beyond the touch of God," he says. "It's so easy for us just to write people off and say, 'Well, forget them, they're too far gone.' And yet, that's not our experience."

Although Christians know, intellectually, that God has "incredible power," Gandy says, sometimes in practice, even believers may tend to write people off. But over and over, he says, HLIC is seeing people's lives transformed, which serves as a constant reminder that with God, all things are possible -- even in the heart of the inner city.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

http://news.christiansunite.com/Religion_News/religion02862.shtml

Additional information on ChristiansUnite.com is available on the Internet at http://www.christiansunite.com/
Copyright © 2003 ChristiansUnite.com. All rights reserved.
Logged

Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  



More From ChristiansUnite...    About Us | Privacy Policy | | ChristiansUnite.com Site Map | Statement of Beliefs



Copyright © 1999-2019 ChristiansUnite.com. All rights reserved.
Please send your questions, comments, or bug reports to the

Powered by SMF 1.1 RC2 | SMF © 2001-2005, Lewis Media