3rd Annual Back to School Youth Concert and Festival

Salvation Church of God presents their 3rd Annual Back to School Youth Concert and Festival. Food, Games and Health Screenings. Salvation's Perfected Praise singing group will perform along with other Youth choirs, spoken word artist and other talent.

If you have a performing youth group you should contact Rev. Taylor to have your group perform.

Saturday August 7, 2010
1-7 pm
Salvation Church of God
69 E. 83rd St
773-846-7283

The Common Ground Project Spoken Word Conference

August 13th, 2010 12:00 AM through August 15th, 2010 12:00 AM
McCormick Theological Seminary
5460 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60615
United States
Contact Phone: 773-947-6300

Registration form commonground@mccormick.edu

Chicago Peace Campaign -- save our youth!!!!

Chicago Peace Campaign

The Chicago Peace Campaign is a comprehensive strategy to fill the city of Chicago with "the way of peace" through life giving words and action, leading to a measurable decline in the rate of violence in the city, especially among our young people.

Peacemakers Projects: Organize, coordinate and support service projects that will become deterrents to violence and monuments of peace.

Friday Night Lights: Night time outreach in rough areas. Light up dark corners with physical lights while lighting up dark souls with the light of the Gospel.

Beautiful Feet: Recruit a corps of street pastors to go house to house with message of peace and be a presence for peace in the streets.

Peaceful Speech: Communicate the message of peace through new media(website, facebook, text message etc.), traditional media (radio,television, newspapers) signs and events.

Pray for Peace: Cover the Chicago Peace Campaign and the city of Chicago with prayer.


Help Launch This Historic Campaign for Peace!

Date: Saturday April 25, 2009 Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm L
ocation: Chicago Embassy Church 5848 S. Princeton (Chicago, IL)
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Thank you very much for your leadership and your committment to peace in Chicago!

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Anatomy of Buzz update

An update on the "Anatomy of Buzz" event, which was posted on Tuesday.

A location has been secured on the campus of the University of Illinois - Chicago.


University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center East-Illinois Room C
750 South Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7011

Parking: A visitor parking garage is available directly across the street from the Student Center East. A parking fee applies.

Reminder: This is a FREE event.

See you there!

How we can reach our youth -- FREE event at UIC

Please pre-register for the event described before April 2nd, as a room assignment will be made based on pre-registrations. e-mail JulieHenschel at jhenschel(at)isac.org

You may recall a few days ago a previous post about the Reload Urban Youth Workers conference at North Park University on Saturday, April 4. In it, I had some editorial on the (percevied, by me) the lack of connected effort by community churches to reach out to the youth. Every day, I see some youth in the neighborhood who look like they could be up to no good.

However, we do have resources, whether churches or after shcool clubs, that can help these kids. And we need youth to reach out to youth.

They (the youth) do it all the time, anyway...and they create this thing called "buzz" which promotes different ideas, movements, media, etc. Could be negative, but it the buzz can also be positive.

The author of the book "Anatomy of Buzz" is in town, and providing a special FREE event at UIC this upcoming Monday at UIC. A specific room will be assigned once pre-registration is complete Thursday morning, April 2.

Join ISAC for Free Lecture with Author of The Anatomy of Buzz

The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) is pleased to invite our friends and partners in education, social policy, and community economic development to a free lecture with Emanuel Rosen, author of the national best-seller The Anatomy of Buzz. The event, co-hosted with the College ofUrban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Illinois College Access Network, will be held on April 6th from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

To register for the event, and for location information on campus, please e-mail JulieHenschel(jhenschel(at)isac.org) before April 2nd.

Many of you will recognize The Anatomy of Buzz from ISAC presentations and our professional development series. In our nationally recognized "Guide to Outreach" a number of successful outreach strategies utilizing the principles from Rosen's book are highlighted.

This event is a must attend for anyone involved in college access marketing, community outreach, policy implementation, or any endeavor in which traditional forms of marketing and promotion are impractical or financially out-of-reach.

If you have ever wondered how to get better turnout at your public events, how to reach your target audience, how to launch a new program, how to differentiate your programs and services, or simply how to make more effective use of a limited marketing budget, you are sure to leave this session with more than a few very practical ideas. Emanuel Rosen is the author of the national best-seller The Anatomy of Buzz (Doubleday, 2000) and The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited (Doubleday,2009).

Prior to writing these books, he was VP of Marketing at Niles Software where he was responsible for launching and marketing the company's flagship product EndNote, which spread to a large extent by word of mouth. It was during this time that Rosen became interested in buzz and especially in how it can be accelerated. He started his career as a copywriter in Israel. For his work in advertising he won the Bronze Lionfrom the Cannes International Advertising Festival, as well as several national awards including two gold medals. He holds an MBA from of San Francisco and lives in Menlo Park, California. The Anatomy of Buzz "has managed to generate quite a bit of buzz itself," as BusinessWeek Online noted. The book hit The Wall Street Journal's business best-seller list and is now available in twelve languages.

How much do you know about "word-of-mouth" marketing? Take the Buzz Quiz and find out.

More information about the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

More information about the Illinois College Access Network

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