Search Volunteer Organizations: Chicago, IL, Youth Program

ECM is a Christian mission for the forgotten children of Africa--street children, slave children, orphaned and abandoned children, children devastated by war and poverty. We are committed to showing every child the love of Jesus in practical ways and teaching the Gospel. We want to show kids that Jesus can heal broken hearts and restore broken lives. ECM's home support base in Indiana (Mission Central) is a home support basis, a hub where programs are designed, where we communicate with the field, where we do a myriad of projects all for the purpose of enabling and supporting our various activities in Africa. These activities include street ministry, a children's home, orphanage and Christian school, liberation of slave children, teacher training, leadership development, Bible classes in schools and more.

Camp Maniotqua and Retreat Center, a God-Centered organization, serves guests by providing a setting and programs for retreating, camping, and outdoor education.

To present the living Christ primarily to unchurched innercity children and youth evangelizing, discipling and integrating them into the local church.

Mission- Under the authority of God and His Word and in commitment to Christ and His Church..."to develop and implement attractive programs for the family that present the Gospel while lmeeting needs and encouraging life transformation."

Vision Statement-To be a place where lives are transformed by the power of the Gospel. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
II Corinthians 5:17

To minister in urban communities through
programs emphasizing relationships creating opportunities for abundance in all areas of life.

To glorify God through ministering to the needs of children, youth and families in a supportive, therapeutic, united Christian community.

Mission: To establish and support community development initiatives in under-resourced communities. To inspire and equip Christ followers to RECONCILE with people of different cultural and economic backgrounds, REDISTRIBUTE their finanacial and material resources to assist under-resourced communities, and RELOCATE to under-resourced communities to live, work, serve, and learn.

The Refinery is a place where young lives are molded and refined into all God has created them to be. This is done though education, mentoring, character development and spiritual formation.

Established in 1985, CCI is a non-profit international education exchange organization dedicated to the promotion of cultural understanding, academic development and world peace. CCI is recognized by the U.S. Department of State as an official exchange visit program sponsor. Based in Chicago, Illinois, CCI organizes high school exchange, short-term group homestay, internship, work & travel, and language study programs in the United States and in over 30 countries around the world.

Working in the Schools (WITS) is a literacy organization that increases the reading proficiency and learning capacity of low-income and minority students in Chicago Public Schools. WITS recruits and supports dedicated business, government, and community volunteers who deliver measurable and consistent tutoring and mentoring services.

MISSION STATEMENT

Mercy Home for Boys & Girls is a Catholic organization answering the Gospel call to minister to all children and families in need.

Mercy Home:
+ Saves young lives by providing a safe, nurturing home, opportunity for an excellent education and means for personal growth.
+ Supports healing for families
+ Is committed to raising public awareness of youth in need and encourages support to help them
+ Is sustained by benefactors who believe in the miracle of God's mercy in action.

Working in the Schools (WITS) is a literacy organization that increases the reading proficiency and learning capacity of low-income and minority students in Chicago Public Schools. WITS recruits and supports dedicated business, government, and community volunteers who deliver measurable and consistent tutoring and mentoring services

Center for Cultural Interchange (CCI) has been dedicated to the promotion of cultural understanding, academic development, environmental consciousness, and world peace. Through our many years of experience, we have found that the experiential learning involved in student exchange helps people appreciate other ways of life and consequently improves their own. Over the years, we have worked with thousands of students and seen their lives transformed and enriched as a result of their experiences abroad.

The mission of Jehovah youth center is to develop young teenagers in the community to be involved in building up the hope and love of Jesus.

We are a church with a warm heart.