Chicago Meet-Up April 21st
Your voice is needed to help shape compassion and justice ministry in the city of Chicago. Please join us Thursday, April 21st, 7pm, at Park Community Church (1001 N Crosby) for a gathering to collaborate on God’s call for lives of love and justice from His people. We will be exploring justice issues and initiatives in the city, the role …
Read MoreChicago Meet-Up January 27th
Your voice is needed to help shape compassion and justice ministry in the city of Chicago. Please join us Thursday, January 27th, 7pm, at Park Community Church (1001 N Crosby) for a gathering to collaborate on God’s call for lives of love and justice from His people. We will be exploring justice issues and initiatives in the city, the role …
Read MoreChicago Meet-Up November 4th
Your voice is needed to help shape compassion and justice ministry in the city of Chicago. Please join us Thursday, November 4th, 7pm, at Park Community Church (1001 N Crosby) for a gathering to collaborate on God’s call for lives of love and justice from His people. We will be exploring justice issues and initiatives in the city, the role …
Read MoreNext gathering: September 16th
We gather again Thursday, Sept 16th, at 7pm at Park Community Church in Chicago. Be there as we move forward together as community committed to God’s call for love and justice from His people. All of the current initiative details can be found online here: http://thejustlife.org/home/2010/01/15/updated-2010-initiative-list/. Of course, we will always have an introductory group that will stay together in the Café …
Read MoreVolunteer Opportunities and Ministries
Here’s a very useful resource from urbanministry.org to help connect you to needs in your area: http://www.urbanministry.org/mycity
Read MoreUpdate: Social Enterprise Launch: AArrow Ads
I am excited to say that we are moving forward with our vision to create community development opportunities through social entrepreneurialism. After years of working with organizations and youth in the notoriously underserved community of Cabrini Green in Chicago, one need continued to ring alarmingly clear – Jobs. Without employment all of the mentoring and tutoring invested in at-risk youth seemed …
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Hillsong UNITED and The Just Life
UPDATE: The Just Life Was on hand to collaborate with Hillsong United at their concert April 17th in Chicagoland. Hillsong and the i-heart revolution they’ve helped inspire are kindred spirits in responding to God’s call for love and justice from His people. From the i-heart website: There’s a generation across the earth who are being awakened to real love and who are starting …
Read MoreMicah 6:8 Conference and TJL
Join us as we partner with the Micah 6:8 Conference! Micah 6:8 Conference from Conversations Next on Vimeo. The Micah 6:8 Conference sees a world where God hates injustice and wants it to end. We know God has purposed a plan where the church’s role is to defeat injustice and advocate for the rights of the oppressed. But, how should …
Read MoreUpdated: 2010 Initiative List
Below are the initiatives that have been created by the members of the Chicago meet-up and have begun to see some traction from our collective efforts to respond to God’s call for love and justice from his people: For more information on any initiative email: contact@thejustlife.org Community building in Cabrini through addressing the education gap in the city: Key Contact: Jennifer …
Read MoreTJL Building Blocks
The technical, tactical, and practical of The Just Life ministry encompasses five interconnected “change agent” engagement strategies; each with their own part to play in a holistic vision for transformational justice ministry: These building blocks are Justice Initiatives, Professional Fellowships, Social Entrepreneurs, Community Development, and Advocacy. More information can be discovered by exploring the categories in the main navigation of …
Read MoreTJL: Social Capital Mapping
“Social capital mapping” is simply a formal way of stating the importance listening to and learning from your community, being proactive about discovering and making connections, and building/developing community – door by door, family by family, name by name. This also entails identifying existing ministries in your church and in the same neighborhood as your church, key leaders and organizers, …
Read MoreTJL Initiative Development
Before you begin you should review The Justice Continuum explanation: http://thejustlife.org/home/2009/10/21/the-justice-continuum Think of the following as a sample worksheet. Break out some paper and pens and start with these basic steps… Step 1: Simply begin What justice issue do you feel God has called you to engage? The fist step is to simply begin – to put a flag in …
Read MoreTJL: The Justice Continuum
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” ~ Matthew 22:37-39 The Justice Continuum: Compassion, Development, Structural Change “The Justice Continuum” is a guide through the elements of commitment …
Read MoreCore Concepts 8: Be All In
We must come to terms with the reality that there is no hierarchy of Christian discipleship, no acceptable “levels” of commitment. From day one, being a disciple of Christ has been an all-in, all-or-nothing proposition. A call to completely give up the life we have planned so as to have the life awaiting us. Of course, there have always been …
Read MoreCore Concepts 7: Start Small, Dream Big
A “just life” is one that refuses to neglect even the smallest act of compassion (to suffer with) while being willing to be incarnate in the development of others (loving your neighbor as yourself) while relentlessly pursuing the most revolutionary structural change (the redemption of fallen systems):
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