Open the Gates
October 12 8:00 am
Partner Ministries
PARTNER EVENTS
ADMINISTER JUSTICE
In 2000, long-time elder and Fox Valley Church attender Bruce Strom left a highly successful law practice to start Administer Justice, which provides free civil legal assistance to low income individuals and families. What started in the Chicagoland area has now reached across the nation with more than 100 legal clinics.
REFUGE FOR WOMEN
Refuge for Women is a residential healing and recovery program for survivors of human-trafficking. Refuge was founded in January 2009 in Lexington, KY, by Ked and Michelle Frank. In 2014, Ked was looking to open a branch in Chicago and reached out to Fox Valley attender Karen Schultz, who has served as the RFW Chicago City Director since then. The RFW Chicago-area home opened in October 2016 and received the first residents in November 2016.
REPLANTED
Caring for the needs of children and orphans is deeply important to the heart of God. Engaging in adoption, foster care, and Safe Families fills life with beauty and joy, but it can be difficult and challenging work. Parents and families often struggle and need support.Replanted provides support to adoptive and foster families and those considering it, and empowers the church to play an active role to help.
TLC PREGNANCY SERVICES
TLC is a ministry that provides free medical, material, emotional and spiritual support to local women facing unplanned pregnancy situations. Those who come are often desperate and confused; they find a place of safety and a caring staff.
THE PINNEYS
EFCA: Reach Global
CANADA
Jay serves as a church-planting catalyst. As a “church multiplier,” he assesses prospective church planters and provides them with training and coaching, and he helps develop systems to enable an increase in church plants.
Kathy also serves in the area of church planting by assessing and coaching church planters and their wives. She is also involved in women’s leadership development and worship ministry in their local church. Both Jay and Kathy work with a Quebec partner, C2C Collective.
COLLEEN BRIGGS
HEART OF HOPE
CAMBODIA
THE HAMILTONS
SEND INTERNATIONAL
POLAND
ANA TUQUERO
MISSIONS MOBILIZER
PHILIPPINES
THE KATOS
EFCA: REACH GLOBAL
NORTHWEST SUBURBS OF CHICAGO
Mark and Cathy Kato grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and met while studying missions at Moody Bible Institute. They have been married for 25 years and have two children, Hannah and Joshua. Mark serves with Apex, the student missions’ program for the EFCA, to help equip the local church by mobilizing the next generation of gospel influencers to take the gospel from here to everywhere. Cathy serves with GlobalFingerprints, EFCA’s child sponsorship ministry, which equips the church to be transformational in the lives of vulnerable children, opening doors to strengthen, revitalize, and plant churches.