Spend your spring break learning to share the Gospel in Panama City Beach Florida.  Big Break will give you the training and experience to share the gospel back on your college campus.

The conference begins with onsite registration on Saturday afternoon. The beginning session is Sunday night. The Monday through Thursday morning sessions provide practical training on sharing the gospel. The afternoons offer the opportunity to practice sharing the gospel in Panama City Beach. The Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening sessions provide worship, opportunities to share your afternoon experiences, and biblical teaching. Optional seminars will be offered throughout the week on such topics as apologetics, Web evangelism, and worldviews.

This is what a typical weekday at Big Break will look like:

10:00am – Morning Session

12:00 – Lunch and Personal Quiet Time

1:30pm – Evangelism on Beach

7:30pm – Evening Session

There will be groups of students and staff going to Big Break for both the week of March 17 – 24 and March 24 – 31.  The cost of the conference is $299 and that includes your stay in a beautiful condo just steps from the beach, and conference costs.  The Condo’s have full kitchens so you can cook your meals.  We’ll be arranging transportation from Chicago via Buses of Vans as well.  We’ll be renting vehicles to get to and from the conference.  The cost of travel is $130 per person.

For more information and to register go to the Big Break Website

To pay the full $130 travel cost use the button below.

To pay the $50 travel deposit required to receive a scholarship from Chicagocru you can use the button below.

Work. Many of you are working currently and most of you are probably thinking about what you’re going to do after graduation. No matter what our 9-5 jobs are, as Christ-followers we are called to worship the Lord 24/7.  We don’t split between things that are sacred and things that are secular.  Everything we do can be an act of worship. Yes, we should even see our work as worship

Come learn from professional men and women who are living their faith through their careers.  Maybe you are studying to be a teacher or a lawyer or a doctor – wouldn’t it be great to hear from someone who has walked the same path?  Someone who can share what it looks like to live out a Kingdom vision in the classroom, the courtroom or the exam room everyday?  Click here to see bios of our speakers. 

This is just the event for you!  We’ll have donuts and coffee and learn more about God’s hear for work (did you know that working is not a result of sin entering the world?! That wee were always meant to do meaningful work in God’s Kingdom?!)

We’ll also have several breakout sessions representing different careers.  Come meet and learn from those in fields that you are pursuing – from education to engineering, from accounting to arts and more.

Date:  Sat, Feb 25 9am-noon
Location:  Park Community Church – 1001 N Crosby St, Chicago IL.
Cost:  FREE if you register by February 22nd; $5 at the door.

Click Here to Register

Do you want to invest your Spring Break reaching students in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Chicago Metro’s new overseas partnership?  On this trip you’ll have the opportunity to share your faith with students at the Universidad de Guayaquil, a campus with over 80,000 students. Ecuadorian students are extremely open to the Gospel.  You’ll also have the chance to experience Ecuadorian culture and all that Guayaquil has to offer.

The trip will leave from Chicago on Saturday, March 17th and return on Friday, March 23rd.  The cost for the trip is $1600 (This is a current estimate, the price may go down).   It includes flight, hotel, food, in country transportation, and SOS/Medical Insurance.  You can register for the trip using the link below.  The registration also serves as your application for the trip.  A $200 deposit is required for your application to be reviewed.  In the event that you are not accepted on the trip, your $200 will be refunded within 3 business days.  Your deposit is not refundable for any reason other than that  you are not accepted on the trip.

The deadline to fill out the application is February 14th and the deadline to pay the deposit is February 17th.   The deposit counts toward the total payment for the trip.  If your deposit is paid with personal funds it can be refunded later if enough support is raised.

We hope to let you know of your acceptance status within three days of your registration/application.  If you are interested in going please apply as soon as you can so that we can have accurate information in terms of numbers (which helps us plan well and keep costs low), so that you have time to discuss the trip with your parents, and so that you have as much time as possible to raise support for the trip.  Resources to help you with your support raising will be made available upon your acceptance.

Click Here to Apply and Register

AllCallings.com connects you with like-minded friends who want to live out their faith in Christ. Find a real community where you can connect with others to combine the Good News with Good Deeds. Join a team to reach students, professionals, the underprivileged, or to cross cultures bringing hope as the hands and feet of Christ.

What’s your passion? How has God created you uniquely? What interests, skills and giftings has He poured into you? Create a team so others can join you in living out the gospel through your vision to make an eternal difference in people’s lives.

Leaders in many communities are ready and waiting to coach you and your friends to have a lasting influence. You can volunteer to lead one of these teams to reach students, professionals, the underprivileged, or to cross cultures to bring hope during a short-term missions trip taking the gospel next door, down the street, and to the ends of the earth. As our site grows, so will our partnerships.

Find encouragement, community and tools to help discover your unique calling. Uncover opportunities to serve Christ in your community as you live out your Kingdom calling.

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Summer project offers the opportunity for students to take the good news of forgiveness in Jesus to virtually anywhere in the world with Campus Crusade for Christ so ultimately everyone will know someone who truly follows Jesus!

Every summer, thousands of college students from all over the world choose to spend their summer in community with one another as they take the message of Jesus to hundreds of cities, campuses and communities in the US and all over the world.

The Summer Project experience ranges in possibility from doing campus ministry to working with AIDS orphans; from working with artists in NYC to medical missions opportunities; from working with inner-city kids to sharing your faith on a beach! Summer Project experiences vary in length from one week to ten!

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