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City ScapeI dont know if you believe in this or not, but I think I had a vision of you last night. A well-

dressed woman looked at me with tears in her eyes. I had just walked up to her, after sending our

team out to offer people prayer in the plaza. I had seen her come out of the courthouse building abou

15 yards away and felt led to go and talk to her. As I approached her, she stopped and stared at me

with a look of surprise. I said, We are out here praying for people, do you have anything I could pray

for you about? The Lord has sent us here to give people hope. It was at this point that she told me

about her vision as tears began to form in her eyes.

She told me how she had recently gone through a difficult divorce, had lost her job, and was now in

court losing custody of her kids. The night before I had met her, she was contemplating suicide. Just

before she took an overdose of pills she had an overwhelming feeling that God did not want her to go

through with it. She told God that she didnt know whether He even existed, but that if He did, He

needed to show himself to her somehow. Immediately she saw a picture of someone who looked like

me coming up to her and telling her that God had sent him to give her hope. She told God that if that

was Him then he needed to make it happen the next day while she was going to court. After seeing

her vision come true, imagine how open she was to hearing about the Lords heart for her. After some

time, we prayed together and I encouraged her with Gods commitment toward her. At the end of the

encounter, with tears in her eyes, she told me that I could not understand how much our meeting had

changed her life.

Every year more people move into cities around the globe. Over half of the worlds population is now

living in urban centers. According to a recent Associated Press report, in less than 25 years over 5

billion people will live in cities. Already nearly 80% of Americans are city dwellers. Yet our cities still

represent the least evangelized areas of our culture. This has produced an urban generation who is

very post-Christian in its orientation and worldviews. Where does this generation turn to deal with its

overwhelming circumstances, interpretation of reality, and the increasing need for meaning and

significance? For the past 10 years, the Lord has led us in taking teams of people year round to the

main Courthouse plaza in downtown Chicago for what we call prayer evangelism. Daley Plaza serves

as a large gathering place for the citys business community during the lunch hours everyday. Since

that time we have prayed with over 11,000 people.

It is unfortunate that many of those that we meet on the streets of our cities rarely, if ever, go into our

church buildings. There is an increasing feeling that the church is irrelevant in the modern world of

pluralistic thinking and is unable to adequately answer their deepest questions. I could tell you many

stories like this, where God had divinely created the opportunity for this woman to hear His heart for

her. I cannot help but wonder if there would be more such appointments if we were more actively

available to the Lord to go outside our church walls and take our faith into the public arena. What

could our cities look like if a generation of believers reclaimed the relevance of the church by lovingly

and sincerely taking the Gospel to the streets? (Rom. 10:14-15) - Brad Stanley, Director

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Chicago News Take Action (a multimedia missions experience) came to Chica

this year! For over 20 years, Take Action has been a yearly even

that ministered to youth at YWAM Tyler (Texas) and called the

into the plans of God for their lives! We were so excited to hav

them bring this dynamic event to our city. As the scenarios playe

on the screen in this multimedia gospel presentation, the yout

attending seemed to relate to every circumstance. They snickere

when the teens were kicked out of a restaurant. They nodded whe

a rich girls mom was unavailable. They muttered while watching

boy using drugs. They were on the edge of their seats as a coup

snuggled on a sofa. Then, when a young woman left alone on stag

cried out to heaven, Im not as strong as everyone thinks; I spen

my whole life looking after everyone else! Isnt there anybody wh

will take care of ME? There was a responding wail from the depth

of the crowd, from an invisible girl in the audience who sat sobbinThe Lord had touched another heart. Over 200 young people wer

ministered to and most came forward and made various types

commitments to the Lord. Thank you for your prayers; pleas

continue to pray that the Lord will minister to those who attende

that they would know His best for their lives. Pray with us as w

make plans for next years Take Action, bringing the message t

youth that God has plans and a destiny for all of us.

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