How We Serve

Click here for the LSC Service Guide with information about service opportunities at and through LSC

Click here for Cooperative Ministries - Our Wider Work 3-7-12

Click here for the 2011-12 General Board & Committee Slate as of June 2011

Click here for the June 2011 Semi-Annual Business Meeting Committee Reports (archived version)

Click here for a listing of the General Board, Committee Chairs & Coordinators for 2011-2012 program year amended as of May 2012

"Cooperative Ministries in 2010-2011

At Lake Street Church, we are engaged in:

Camp Grow, a Christian summer camp that welcomes and serves all young people from ages 7 to 18 and their families.

For 2012 the weekend to plan is Friday, August 17 - Sunday, August 19.  Click on this link (http://www.lakestreet.org/Calendar-Special.php) and scroll to the bottom of the page to find more information about Camp Grow and the weekend in August! 

Connections for the Homeless, which manages Hilda's Place, Evanston's only homeless shelter, and develops partnerships between the homeless and the community. Hilda's Place is located in the basement of Lake Street Church.

Sustenance Connection, is a committee that helps to prepare and serve dinner in LSC's kitchen twice a month (the first Thursday and the third Monday of every month) to guests of Hilda's Place, a program of Connections for the Homeless.  Hilda's Place, located downstairs in our Church House, has 15 - 25 guests each evening.  It's easy to get involved with this ministry of LSC.  Contact Linda Molidor (llmolidor@comcast.net) or Linda Dienberg (lindainevanston@gmail.com)

Join us on the following 2012 Mondays: January 16, February 20; March 19; April 16; May 21; June 18; July 16; August 20; September 17; October 15; November 19; Tuesday, December 25, 2012 - Christmas day  

Or the following 2012 Thursdays: January 5, February 2, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7; July 5; August 2; September 6; October 4; November 1; December 6.

Nicaragua Niño's Project - click here Nicaragua Service Trip, a trip for some of us . . . a journey for all of us.

The marthas are an eclectic group of volunteers inspired by Luke 10: 39-42.  Choosing to interpret the Scripture that the acts of labor are as important as hearing the Word, the marthas volunteer one Saturday per month fixing what needs fixing around this 150 year old structure.  Please check the calendar for specific projects or Chris Ellicott, the Church Administrator (cellicott@lakestreet.org). 

Here is a listing of upcoming 2012 martha projects: 

January 28 - paint Railings & Dining Room; February 18 - wash Narthex walls; March 3 - kitchen clean-up; March 24 - pew structural repairs; April 14 - Sanctuary cleaning, window unsealing, garden prep, exterior urn planting; May 12 - Garden planting; June 9 - window repair & painting; July & August - no projects; September 8 - Sanctuary cleaning; October 13 - garden fall clean-up; November 10 - lawn leaf clean-up and window sealing; November 24 - hanging of the greens.

Interfaith Action of Evanston, founded in 1971 to promote ecumenical action on issues of human concern within Evanston, our state, our nation, and worldwide.  The council supports several soup kitchens and the Hospitality Center for the Homeless.  During the winter months, it also sponsors warming centers for the homeless.

Evanston Interreligious Sustainability Circle, an environmentally-conscious group that promotes a lifestyle that protects the environment and conserves our natural resources.

Family Matters, which provides a context through which families in Chicago's "North of Howard" neighborhood can enhance their community, develop economic self-sufficiency and leadership, and grow in their potential as individuals and family.

Lake Street Church Peace and Justice Committee, which promotes and supports social justice projects within the congregation. Activities include workshops on nonviolent communication, donating food and clothing to refugees and victims of disasters, and supplying books and tapes to prisoners.

The Ted Fund, which enables public school children from families with limited financial resources to take part in quality, fee-based summer programs–just as more privileged Evanston children are able to do.

Lake Street Church also engages in these ecumenical and interfaith activities:

Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, a global organization that fosters interreligious dialogue and cooperation around the world.

Living Buddha, Living Christ, a special worship service celebratingh the wisdom of both the Buddha and Jesus Christ, was held June 20, 2010 at Lake Street Church.  Theme:  "Awaken to the Living Buddha, Living Christ: Here and Now".  Dharma Talk:  Myoyu Roshi, Great Plains Zen Center; Homily: Rev. Robert V. Thompson, Lake Street Church.

World Community Sunday Celebration on October 2, 2011, 10:15 -11:30 am - Spiritual Commitment for the Well-Being of All, Living OUr Faith for the Common Good.  Impulses from Judaism, Rabbi Brant Rosen; Impulses from Christianity, Rev. Dr. Douglas Sharp; Impulses from Islam, Imam Ahmed Murad & Mrs. Huma Murad.  Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monestary in Hublai, India will chant in the Sanctuary from 10:15 to 10:30 am.

A New Conversation ~ Passover and Good Friday ~ A Shared Service of Healing and Hope.  Click here to listen to a recording of the April 2, 2010, service held at Lake Street Church.

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