Local Outreach at Village Church of Bartlett
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Serving Our Neighbors and Growing as Disciples of Jesus
Local Outreach partners with local organizations, schools, and social workers to serve the vulnerable populations in Bartlett and the surrounding area. By mobilizing our church body to serve, our goal is to build bridges in our community through relationships and care, while giving the people in our church opportunities to grow as disciples of Jesus.
Local Outreach Partnerships and Ministries
The Ruth Project
The Ruth Project is a non-profit organization based in Elgin, IL on a mission to end the modern-day orphan crisis. Through donations and volunteering, they abundantly provide resources to foster and adoptive families, setting them up for long-term success.
The Forgotten Initiative
Through The Forgotten Initiative, agency workers directly interact with foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care. This organization provides support through Journey Bags, Foster Family Support, Social Worker Support, and on-the-ground care for foster families.
Safe Families
Safe Families provide a safe home for children and a supportive community for parents while they get back on their feet. This network of relationships keep children from entering the foster care system, and ultimately, helps keeps families together. The goal is family reunification.
ECFA
Evangelical Child & Family Agency (ECFA) offers compassionate and Christ-centered services to children, families, and individuals through adoption, pregnancy support services, counseling, and intact family services.
Open Hearts Open Homes
Bartlett Community Care Collective
Local Outreach Holiday Initiatives
Easter Eggstravaganza
One of the largest egg hunts in the northwest suburbs! We bring our community together using eggs, games, food, and fun at Bartlett’s Gazebo Park as we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.
Thanksgiving Food Drive
Each year, we partner with our local Jewel-Osco and our school district to provide Thanksgiving meals to families in the Bartlett area who are in need.
Christmas Gift Drive
As Thanksgiving morphs into the Christmas season, we continue our support of many of those same families by providing gifts for their children and support for the adults.
Michelle McGrath
Local Outreach Director
Devote Yourself To Good
We help others and devote ourselves to good not because it guarantees us salvation, but for two distinct reasons. First, Jesus tells us to serve others, and He modeled it in His life on earth. Second, because good works naturally flow out of us as an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, who continually works in us to make us more like Christ.