“We got to see God working even when there was a language barrier and we had no way of communicating except through the phone,” the young woman said to a crowd of nearly 100 students and adults gathered at Elmwood Park Community Church in the western Cook County suburbs.
Her story of using the Google Translate app to share water bottles and the Good News of Jesus with a Spanish speaking mother and child is just one example of teens experiencing how to meet needs and share the gospel in an urban environment at the Go Chicago mission week.
Week of opportunities
The long-running IBSA student missions event, held annually in late July, provides middle and high school students one week of rotating service opportunities alongside Illinois Baptist church plants and Christ-centered non-profits in Chicago.
This summer was the first year that Go Chicago was held as a partnership between IBSA, the Chicagoland Baptist Association, and the North American Mission Board’s Send Relief Chicago Ministry Center.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Ben Jones and originally published by the Illinois Baptist.
