We want to see people finding a new day in Jesus in our city and throughout the world. We serve our neighborhood and the nations in our neighborhood through outreach events, ministry to children, prayer, and meeting practical needs. We have a network of partners that we support financially and collaboratively in our area and in other nations. You can find out more about some of these partners below.
Administer Justice empowers vulnerable neighbors with the help of a lawyer and the hope of God’s love. This Chicagoland based organization equips local churches to host Gospel Justice Centers that provide legal support and justice for neighbors. Click here to find out more about City of Light’s Gospel Justice Center.
Genesis Rivera is a staff missionary for Chicago Campus Initiative, a campus ministry of our sister church, Trinity Anglican Church in Chicago, reaching college students far from God multiplying the next generation of disciples with the church. Genesis leads campus ministers and leaders in the Latino campus ministry at University of Chicago. We are excited for the ministry Genesis and her team are doing, and delighted to be able to support her work.
AFM plant biblically based, multiplying, indigenous churches and dioceses where the church is not yet established, among the 4,800 Frontier People Groups with an aggregate population of 1.9 billion. We partner with members of the worldwide Anglican Communion to equip and send missionaries who harness the formational power and practices of the sacraments and liturgy to make disciples.
City of Light supports a specific worker from our Diocese through AFM.
Our larger Anglican church family in the Anglican Church in North America provides relief and development through the Anglican Relief and Development Fund. ARDF connects Anglican churches with resources as they meet the needs of their communities through relief and development work, expanding the Kingdom of Christ through tangible acts of compassion. We are honored to support the local church with practical help and contextual solutions through a living Gospel that feeds body, soul, and spirit. Click here to see both ongoing development programs as well as how you can help meet urgent needs during recent crises.
World Relief’s mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. They work for thriving, welcoming communities where families flourish, and people experience restorative relationships with God, their neighbors, themselves, and all of creation. In the past, City of Light has partnered with World Relief through Good Neighbor Teams, kids camps, and ESL programs. Find out more here.
Our midwest church family of Anglican churches is committed to a revival of Word and Sacrament infused by the Holy Spirit. We want to strengthen existing churches and start new churches in towns throughout the midwest. We also support our larger North American Anglican church family and the Anglican Communion around the world.