How We Serve

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

Click here for the 2010 Cooperative Ministries Funding Application Packet.

Click here for the 2010 Charitable Grantee Progress Report Form.

Click here for the 2010-11 General Board & Committee Slate.

Click here for the June 2010 Semi-Annual Business Meeting Committee Reports.

 

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.

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 2010 & 2011 Mondays: August 16, September 20, October 18, November 15, December 20 and December 25 - special day; January 17, February 21; March 21; April 18; May 16; June 20. 

Or the following 2010 - 2011 Thursdays: August 5, September 2, October 7, November 4, December 2; January 6, February 3, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2.

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 contact Michael Valente (michaelevalente@yahoo.com) or Chris Ellicott, the Church Administrator (cellicott@lakestreet.org). 

Here is a listing of upcoming martha projects:  July 12 - 16: repairing Parker Room Windows;  August: rest; September 11  Sanctuary cleaning in preparation for the new program year;  October 16: green marthas*; November 21: the annual hanging of the greens in advance of the Advent/Christmas season.

*Outdoor Marthas Autumn Festival, Saturday, Oct. 16, 9 -11 a.m. Just as cicadas sign the end of summer, falling leaves mean autumn and our time to put the LSC grounds to bed for the winter. We need your help Saturday morning to rake and bag leaves, clip dead foliage, and repair and store hoses for spring.  In the spring, our daffodils, irises,  perennials and flowering dogwoods will be the reward. And there’s a bonus:  Lake Street Church  coordinates with The Talking Farm to recycle our leaves into compost at the Evanston Township Highschool Community garden. This project is GREEN: we don’t pay Groot to haul them away, and our yard waste provides free fertilizer for the ETHS garden. Plus, it is a fun way to help our community. Linda Kruhmin of the Talking Farm notes what we have contributed to: “We have been harvesting pounds and pounds of produce for use at the ETHS summer school cafeterias, 2 sales at the Civic Center, and now donations to local soup kitchens - a bounty of goodness in many ways.” Mark your calendars and send your R.S.V.P to Betsy Bouchard, boucharde@comcast.net.

 

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, will be held June 20 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 on October 3- LSC will celebrate the 16th annual interfaith World Community Service like no other celebration.  We will celebrate the theme of creation as expressed through eight of the world's religious and spiritual traditions.  Participants include representatives from Judaism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and the Indigenous traditions.  This multi-media service will feature readings, music, chants from religious and traditions around the world. 

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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