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Chicago Dream Center Mission Trip 2022 | Update #3
July 30, 2022 | Kathy Smarrella
Our last full day with the Chicago Dream Center (CDC) was today. It began very early. . . Breakfast and worship at 6 am (a great start to the day, despite it being the crack of dawn)! We headed out early to the New Life Covenant Church...
Chicago Dream Center Mission Trip 2022 | Update #2
July 29, 2022
By Vicki Topolski Our second day serving in Humboldt Park was jammed packed! After breakfast and morning worship, we split up into three groups to do ministry. One group went to the community garden to harvest potatoes, tend to the garden and...
Chicago Dream Center Mission Trip 2022 | Update #1
July 28, 2022 | Kathy Smarrella
Hello from Humboldt Park! Our team made it to downtown Chicago by 11 am today, and we were greeted warmly by some of the hard-working team members of the Chicago Dream Center (CDC)—Liz, Crystal, Amanda, Jada, Nancy and Brother...
Sow the Seed
July 19, 2022 | Mitchell Mace
Sow the seed, and reap the harvest. Come springtime, many people sow seeds of flowers and vegetables. By fall we reap the harvest of those vegetables after enjoying the beauty of the flowers all throughout the summer. Is that all we have sowed?...
Small Graces
July 12, 2022 | Jaci Miller
I’m human. You probably are too. (Grin.) With that comes humanness—including a propensity for making mistakes, for forgetting, for choosing wrongly. Enter grace. Being given something good that we don’t deserve. I’ve...