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CHM Bible Theatre Productions

CHM Bible Theatre Productions

Champaign/Urbana, IL

CHM Bible Theatre’s mission is to provide opportunities for the creative youth and adults to use their God-given talents in various artistic ways while also offering valuable training and leadership development for young individuals involved in the programs. They’re making a difference by presenting Bible and Inspirational Stage play productions for both the artistic kid and adult of all ages. Not only do they bring captivating Bible plays to the stage, but they also offer an array of innovative programs for youth and adults alike.

Leader: Crystal Hogue

CHI-RHO Outdoors

CHI-RHO Outdoors

Homer, IL

CHI-RHO Outdoors highlights three cornerstones: Building Men, Preserving our Heritage, & Sharing our Faith. It primarily for boys ages 7-20, offering a wide range of year-round outdoor activities in a wholesome and fun environment in which the participants can grow in their knowledge and reverence of God. They're is all about guiding the next generation to Christ through the outdoors.

Leader: Eric St. Pierre

C-U at Home

Champaign, IL

C-U at Home engages and mobilizes our community to house and support the most vulnerable homeless on their journey of healing and restoration.

Cultivadores Latino Mission Center

Cultivadores Latino Mission Center

Rantoul, IL

Cultivadores serves the Rantoul area community through social services, counseling, food pantry, youth programs, summer camps, and year-round school-age daycare.

Destino - Campus Crusade for Christ

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Cru is one of the largest Christian ministry organizations in the world with operations all over the globe. Destino is a subset within the organization that specifically works with Latino students on many college campuses. Our goal is to reach out to students who are interested in growing in their faith by creating a safe environment for friendship, faith, and Jesus.

Leaders: David & Julie Stickel

Driven to Reach Excellence & Academic Achievement for Males (DREAAM)

Driven to Reach Excellence & Academic Achievement for Males (DREAAM)

Champaign County

DREAAM’s mission to reduce the achievement and opportunity gaps among boys and young men ages 3 to 24 by building a seamless pipeline of hope to disrupt the “school to prison” pipeline and to increase life opportunities. DREAAM now prioritizes the whole family with radical hope for the future by providing in-person services to increase remote learning outcomes, social emotional health, and parental involvement.

Leader: Tracy Dace

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Champaign, Piatt, and Douglas County

The vision of FCA is to see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes. With the incredible influence of coaches in our culture, they recognize the most strategic way to reach more athletes for Christ is to first reach the coach. They seek to engage, equip, and empower coaches to know Christ and to make Him known!

Leaders: Robbie and Liz Gwinn, Illini Land FCA

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Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Sangamon Valley

The vision of FCA is to see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes. With the incredible influence of coaches in our culture, they recognize the most strategic way to reach more athletes for Christ is to first reach the coach. They seek to engage, equip, and empower coaches to know Christ and to make Him known!

Leader: Bryce Leigh

Good News Boys Home

Good News Boys Home

Indianapolis, Indiana

way from the city, our 145-acre Boys Home offers real hope for troubled, inner-city teen boys. Many of them have been in and out of juvenile facilities or have become too hardened for their families to handle. The program is a 9-month residential Academy that motivates the students to personal and academic excellence, where the love of Christ is shared with them on a daily basis. In addition to moving toward a Core 40 diploma, each student learns valuable skilled trades and receives one-on-one spiritual training throughout the year.

Leader: Kurt Glosser

International Friendships Inc

International Friendships Inc

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Our mission is to serve the growing number of international students and staff at UIUC, which now has one of the largest international student populations in the nation, with one in four attendees coming here from other nations. Many of them bring their families with them. As we expand IFI’s presence here at UIUC, we hope to see the Body of Christ coming together in increased unity as a team in response to Christ’s commission to go into all the world – one that is being brought right into our very midst.

Leaders: Bill & Donna Erikson

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

We're a ministry that provides students with a “home away from home” on campus and the opportunity to learn about Jesus and what it means to follow Him. We provide space where people from different cultures can build real relationships with each other and grow in love for God, His word, His people, and His purposes in the world. We hope to be a blessing not only to each other, but also to the international student population at the University of Illinois and the campus as a whole.

Leader: Alexa Gordon

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

InterVarsity/USA’s purpose is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord, growing in love for God, God’s Word, God’s people of every ethnicity and culture, and God’s purposes in the world.

Leader: Neal Overbay

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Living Alternatives & Merci’s Refuge

Living Alternatives & Merci’s Refuge

Champaign, IL

Merci’s Refuge is a residential program offered at no cost and designed to nurture a woman in crisis as she becomes the person God created her to be.

Restoration Urban Ministries

Restoration Urban Ministries

Champaign, IL

Our mission is to create and develop within the corporate limits of the community, a Godly ministry to the homeless, near homeless, and displaced, where love, respect and dignity can be maintained in the name of Lord Jesus Christ; to provide temporary and permanent resident dwellings, and to teach Godly principles to help each person gain vision and learn how to reach his/her goals. Our goal is to give all that participate an understanding of God’s love, and an invitation to accept it.

Leader: Ervin T. Williams

Salt & Light

Champaign, IL

Salt & Light’s mission is to share God’s love by fighting poverty with opportunities that empower people for lasting change. We provide our participants access to food, clothing, and household goods, despite financial obstacles. More importantly, we offer a faithful community to empower, affirm, and encourage those in need.

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The Brave Way Home

New Albany, IN

The Brave Way Home is a discipleship movement of deeply rooted followers of Christ, wayfaring Home together with enduring hope, faith and love. We seek to surrender our story to call and equip fellow wayfarers to deeper living, eyes fixed on Jesus and hearts set on Heaven.

Leaders: Ben & Crystal Woods

Youth for Christ

Youth for Christ

Champaign, IL

YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the Word of God, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement.