Have you ever looked around DuPage County lately? Who lives here? People from around the world. We have an amazing opportunity to reach out to the world right in our own back yard. What needs move you with compassion? We have carefully selected local ministries to help us reach our community. Meet our local partners and serve with us through them.
"...spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisy the needs ot the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs..." Isaiah 58:10-11
our partners...
Big Buddy
This adult-child mentoring program is one of our newest ministries and a joint project with Outreach Community Center in Carol Stream. It offers a great opportunity to impact lives.
Call Dori McFarland 630.588.0276
Care Net Pregnancy Services
Care Net Pregnancy Services of DuPage (CPS) works to prevent unplanned pregnancies. It also provides emotional support, spiritual counsel, and practical help to anyone dealing with the effects of unplanned pregnancies. CPS offers a 24-hour hotline, counseling for post-abortion clients, an Abstinence Outreach program, the Bridges program, and the Adopt-A-Mom program.
Ways to Serve:
Counseling and mentoring. Teach students to live a pure life. Answer the help hotline phones. Host a shower for the Adopt-A-Mom program
Who Can Serve:
Best for single and married women
Contact: Toni Kulisek, 630.510.8354
Care Net website http://www.carenetdupage.com/
Deaf Communications
The DVC Ministry Center functions for local outreach, providing a place for the local deaf and their families as well as a national conferencing center for workshops and conferences for those involved in deaf ministry.
Ways to Serve:
Evangelize the Deaf with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Help the Deaf grow in their knowledge and understanding of God’s Word. Equip pastors and missionaries worldwide who are ministering to the Deaf.
Who Can Serve:
Best for singles, families, marrieds
Contact: David Stecca, 630.221.0909
DVC website www.deafvideo.com
Open Door for Teens
Open Door for Teens, Inc is a fund established to aid Foster Parents caring for At-Risk Teens, usually 13-18 years of age (or still in High School). They believe firmly in Accountability, Discipline, and Love. They admit Teens from multiple private agencies & provide several different types of support.
Ways to Serve:
Volunteer to help with the up-keep of three foster homes. Help with fund raising events. Provide respite times for ODFT foster parents. Pray for the ministries of ODFT.
Who Can Serve:
Best for married couples and families
Contact: Paul Keenon, 630.665.7745
ODFT Website: www.ODFT.org
Ecumencial Support Services for the Elderly (ESSE)
WBC and several other local churches financially support this adult daycare center. It provides a secure, protective social environment for the frail, somewhat disabled, or mildly confused older adults who might otherwise require institutional care. This objective is achieved by providing stimulating physical, social, and spiritual activities overseen by caring staff and volunteers.
Ways to Serve:
Assist in planned daily activities. Provide healthy snacks. Share your talents by reading, playing games, drama, etc. Bring your pet for a “pet visit"
Who Can Serve:
Best for singles, or married couple
Contact: Donna Pilkington, 630.876-8215
ESSE website: www.esseadultdaycare.org
Good News Jail and Prison Ministry
WBC has a mission to the Cook County Jail. Chaplain Marcus Baird, a WBC missionary, is a full-time chaplain at Division 9, a maximum security section of the jail.
Ways to Serve:
Teach in the “Life Learning Program” or other studies. Grade detainees’ Bible study lessons. Help with the after-care program on Tuesday evenings. Pray for Marcus, the other chaplains in the jail, and the detainees. Plan, purchase, and deliver the Christmas gifts to the kids of detainees.
Who Can Serve:
Best for singles, marrieds, some projects are kid-friendly but most are not.
Contact: Chaplain Marcus Baird, 773.869.6261.
GNJ website: www.goodnewsjail.org
International Friendship Ministry
For over twenty years, Wheaton Bible Church has been loving internationals through the International Friendship Ministry.
Ways to Serve:
Prepare special dinners. help in an English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom, help with resettlement of refugees, help with a sewing class.
Who Can Serve:
Best for families, singles, marrieds
Contact: Annette Horton, 630.681.0752
Public Action to Deliver Shelter (P.A.D.S)
Ways to Serve:
Take a shift during the night we serve. Make up beds, fill sack lunches, and serve breakfast. Talk to the guests.
Who Can Serve:
Best for singles, or married couple, no kids
Contact: Pat Cerny, 630.933.5651
PADS website: http://www.dupagepads.org/
Outreach Community Center
The mission of Outreach Community Ministries is to become a catalyst to help people from the community and members from our local churches extend compassion and service to those in need.
Ways to Serve:
Mentoring and tutoring of youth in Carol Stream and Warrenville, family-to-family mentoring, friendly visiting with seniors in Carol Stream, serving on event committees, clerical assistance or service on our boards of directors.
Who Can Serve:
Best for men, women, singles, or married couple, family
Contact: Kathy Christensen kchristiansen@outreachcommin.org
Outreach website: http://www.outreachcommunityministries.com/
Repeat Boutique
Repeat Boutique has clothing, and household items to help refugees, missionaries and other Christian workers. This ministry is entirely supported through donations and volunteer support. Each year more than 65 men and women, including many from WBC, share their time and talents at the boutique.
Ways to Serve:
Give items appropriate for resale. Receive and sort donated items. Organize clothing by size. Do bookkeeping or assist with computers.
Who Can Serve:
Best for families, singles, or marrieds
Contact: Ruth Gibson, 630.682.1222
RB website: http://www.ourchurch.com/member/r/RepeatBoutique/
South Asian Friendship Center
The South Asian Friendship Center is located in a Chicago neighborhood of immigrant Muslims and Hindus from India and Pakistan. We proclaim the uniqueness of Jesus Christ among these people through our Christian bookstore, meeting people at their point of felt need, evangelism, and equipping Christians and churches to share their faith with their Muslim and Hindu neighbors. A church plant, South Asian Fellowship, has grown out of this ministry.
Who Can Serve:
Best for families, singles, or marrieds
Contact: Call 773.764.6864 for more information
SAFC website: http://www.safc.citymax.com/page/page/3181223.htm
World Relief
Learn more about how WBC and World Relief are working together to reach out locally.
Contact: Annette Horton, 630.681.0752
World Relief website: http://www.wr.org/