Miarcle League youth basketball league deadline is coming up...

Attention churches & faith based groups:

The Miracle League is a Christian summer basketball league that has been around for nearly 2 decades. It started on the North Side but now includes teams from the South and West as well. Games are played at the safe and encouraging environment of Moody Bible Institute's Solheim Center (where Bulls opponents and Rookie Training Camp have played).

Even if you don't have a formal youth program, this league can be a way to build relationships in the community. Churches could even team up and sponsor a team.

Please contact GRIP Youth ASAP if you even have an interest in forming a team.

From their web page...

Miracle Basketball League Details:

•Who: For youth in Jr. high and high school

•What: 6-weeks of competitive basketball on Tuesday and Thursday nights along with Bible-based programming

•Where: Moody Bible Institute’s Solheim Center - 930 N Wells St. in Chicago

•When: June 7th - July 14th – Championship tournament July 14th & 16th

•Cost: $400 for first team, $250 for a second team from the same organization

•Registration Deadline: May 4th

•Contact: dave@gripyouth.com or 312.563.5630

See their web page for more details.
 
Promotional PDF is here

Hope a team from the 6th ward area can make it!

Reload: Chicago Urban Youth Workers Conference

Reload is a one day conference. There are 80 churches within 1 mile of 79th & King, but our neighborhood's residents go to 200 (or more) churches! Many of them will be at Reload. (Churches include: Salem Baptist, Apostolic Church of God, Fellowship Missionary Baptist, Canaan Missionary Baptist, Lawndale Community Church, Christ Bible Church (formerly known as South Shore Baptist), Armitage Baptist, New Life Covenant, Oakdale Covenant, La Viitta Commnity, New Life Community, Evangel Assembly)

However, it seems like NONE of the churches in the 6th ward have come.

If you read this on Saturday, when you go to church on Sunday GRAB YOUR YOUTH MINISTER.

If you miss them on Sunday, CALL THEM ON MONDAY.

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Reload - Chicago
The largest urban youth workers conference in Chicago
One of the largest in the 20 city Reload Tour

Rates
$20 Pre-Registration
$25 At the Door

Click here to see the full brochure

RELOAD Chicago
April 4, 2009
North Park University
3225 West Foster Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
www.northpark.edu
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Featured Speaker

Princess Kasune Zulu,
World Vision, Chicago, IL

Click here to read more about Princess Zulu

Worship Team
Foster


Workshops

• 2020 Vision For Schools: Transforming Public Education Within a Single Generation of Students taught by Chris Butler, Vision Nehemiah
  
• Discipleship: An Effective Method of Mentoring Urban Youth taught by Nick Rivera, New Life Covenant Church Oakwood
  
• Rev Up Your Bible Teaching: How to Counter a Culture that Would Rather Watch TV than Listen to You taught by Phil Jackson, The House Covenant Church
• Girls & Boys: Adjusting Your Ministry to Be More Gender-Sensitive in an Urban Environment taught by Ginny Olson, North Park University
  
• Jump Starting Your Youth Ministry: Planning for Success taught by David Marrero, New Life Covenant Church
  
• Core Values of a Youth Worker: Laying a Foundation for Ministry taught by Justine Conley, J. Conley Consulting
  
• Teen Leadership Track (for high school students only) Dealing With Life: Let's Get Real taught by Masters Commission
  
  click here to view above workshop descriptions

Additional Workshops

• Multi-Generation Communication: Crossing the Cultural Divide taught by Joon Hwang, New Life Chicago & Ramiro Medrano
  
• Real Talk About Accountability and Learning Communities taught by Brian Dye, Vision Nehemiah
  
• A Church With No Walls: Reaching Youth That Are Turned Off by the Church taught by Amy Williams, The Carpenter's House
  
• Social Justice: Theology of Suffering taught by Soong-Chan Rah, North Park Theological Seminary
  
• Hip-Hop Curriculum taught by Roberto Rivera, The Good Life Organization
  
• Church & Ministry Managment taught by Trevor James, North Park University
  The ABCs of Counseling taught by Daisy Santiago Altiery, North Park University
  
• Building Bridges with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community taught by Andrew Marin, The Marin Foundation
  
• Entrenuity: Teaching Youth How to Develop For Profit Entrepreneurships taught by Brian Jenkins, Entrenuity
  
• Real Steps to Dealing with the Gang Issues in Your Community taught by Robert Rand, New Life Covenant Church
  
• Prison Ministry taught by Joe Jones, North Park University
  
• Volunteers: Pain or Pathway to God's Vision? taught by Brad Harry, Here's Life Inner City / Agape Center

Schedule

• 8:30am Registration, Breakfast & Networking
• 9:15-10:30am General Session 1 - Welcome, Worship & Speaker Challenge
• 10:45am-12:00pm Morning Electives
• 12:00-12:50pm Lunch
• 1:00 - 2:15pm Afternoon Electives
• 2:30-3:30pm General Session 2 - Giveaways, Worship, Speaker Challenge
• 3:30pm RELOAD Ends

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Local Sponsors

• North Park University's Center for Youth Ministry Studies
• Vision Nehemiah
• Chicago Urban Youth Network

Chicago's Best Blogs

Well so far they only have five categories over at the Tribune's newest blog. Of course there is a section for best neighborhood blogs and four out of the five listed there are on the blogroll here at The Sixth Ward. Perhaps this blog or any neighborhood blog any of you readers might start could be one of those blogs on the list. It's pretty cool that the Tribune are recognizing blogs.

Building Social Animals

Gaper's Block provides a link to a city-sponsored website that is designed to bring together different community groups and individual Chicagoans. CitizenPowered is where you go!

Chatham on Flickr

YoChicago set up this group about Chatham. Just random pics about the neighborhood and it doesn't matter if you're talking about houses or just life in the neighborhood in general. If you have a digital camera and you don't mind sharing pictures, you should sign up onto Flickr and then join this group. Especially if you're a Chatham resident.

Here's another one about West Chesterfield!

We're on Facebook!

Well, the neighborhoods of the 6th, at least, are represented on Facebook.

Chatham Neighborhood has over 55 members

Grand Crossing Neighborhood has only 5 members (none in Greater Grand Crossing)

Park Manor has just 3 people

Englewood , though a small part of the 6th, has 52 members!

Chesterfield, West Chesterfield & Roseland Heights aren't even mentioned.

There are also "groups". The Uptown neighborhood for example has at least two, as well as for Uptown Baptist Church (several different) and block clubs like Clarendon Park. The 6th ward doesn't have one specific to the area. One of the largest is calle "I was raised on the south side, therefore I am better than you." Started by white youth from the Beverly area, it has attracted people from all over the South Side, who might not think of the South Side as being "Irish" for example.

How about your neighborhood? Are you on Facebook?

How do you connect with your neighborhood online? Through Facebook? Myspace? This blog? Another blog?