Serve

The Church, Community and World

Serving You

At the Village Church, we are committed to assisting those in need. The following services are provided on a regular basis. If you or someone you know needs help, please contact the email listed with each ministry.

If you have prayer needs for healing, employment issues, praises or other life events, we offer prayer support in two ways: 1) We list special prayer requests in our Sunday church bulletin for our congregation to see, or 2) for more private concerns, our pastoral staff prays during Tuesday morning meetings. Please contact prayerministry@villagechurchnorthbrook.org and let us know how we can pray for you or a loved one.

Serving Our Community

“I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35

We are committed to assisting those in need in our community. Here are some examples of local community organizations that we partner with throughout the year. For more information about local missions, send an email to missions@villagechurchnorthbrook.org

A Just Harvest

A Just Harvest serves meals 365 days a year in Chicago. Our partnership began more than 10 years ago. We volunteer our time and funds to provide a meal for 175-200 guests once a month. We prepare food, transport it to A Just Harvest and we serve the meal to the guests.

C24/7

C24/7 is our newest partner in Chicago. We volunteer our time, provide food to their tutoring programs, and inventory to their weekly store.

PADS Homeless Shelter

PADS is an organization that serves homeless individuals and families. Deerfield Presbyterian is the site where PADS has overnight services on Sundays during the winter months. Our volunteers supervise the site and provide food one Sunday each month.

Good New Partners

Our association with Good News Partners began more than 30 years ago. GNP provides a Christ-centered pathway from homelessness to homeownership. We volunteer for projects and we share our skills with the staff and residents in this Chicago-based ministry.

Exodus World Service

Exodus is a 30-year-old organization that equips local churches in refugee ministry by educating Christians about refugee issues and linking volunteers to newly arrived refugee families. Refugees come to the Chicago area because they cannot go home. We support Exodus financially, volunteer by gathering materials needed for Welcome to America Packs, and serve as New Neighbors.

Younan Shiba

Pastor Shiba left Iraq and the Middle East 10 years ago. He serves Assyrian communities here and around the world with radio and TV programming that shares the gospel in Aramaic. He serves additional communities with Arabic programming.

Serving the World

“Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.”
Isaiah 58:10

The Village Church is committed to assisting those outside our community and throughout the world. Below are mission partners that we support through time, prayers, and monetary support.

"The ultimate purpose of Christian worship is union with God." - John Calvin

For more information about local and international missions, send an email to missions@villagechurchnorthbrook.org.

Tokyo, Japan: Paul and Carol Suzuki

Ministering in Japan since 1994, Paul and Carol work with high school students in partnership with a national youth organization called Hi-b.a. Japan in entrusting the gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and training them to do the same for others. They are involved in camps, evangelistic events, weekly meetings, and discipleship groups. Currently, Paul is the Director for SEND Japan and Carol is working with young Japanese moms.
December 2019 Newsletter

Lawrence and Courtney Sharrett

Lawrence and Courtney Sharrett, along with their daughter, Julianna, are based in Sofia, Bulgaria. They are serving with Antioch Partners. Lawrence received his Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a Master of Education from East Tennessee State University. Courtney is working on a degree in psychology and counseling from Trinity International University. Lawrence and Courtney grew up in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee (Kingsport). They are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Bristol, Tennessee, where Lawrence is continuing the ordination process with the Presbyterian Church.

Bethlehem, Palestine

Bethlehem Bible College (BBC) is an interdenominational college in Bethlehem, Palestine which aims for a high academic standard while encouraging spiritual growth and commitment to Christ. Their mission is to train people to serve Christ in the world; advocate a Palestinian evangelical perspective; and model Christ through community development. The Village Church is partnering with BBC to offer online seminary education to Arabic-speaking Christian leaders around the world.

Cairo, Egypt: General Director, Ramez Atallah

As the largest Arabic Bible publishing operation in the world, The Bible Society of Egypt exists to make the Scriptures available and accessible to all, at an affordable price, in a language people can understand, and in a way that can help each one comprehend the message and effectively apply it. Publishing the Scripture in a variety of formats and media (print, audio, visual), each product is designed for a particular social, economic, age, and cultural interest group. The operation is trans-denominational and the BSE is considered the Bible publisher for all the churches of Egypt.

Rev. Younan Shiba is a Presbyterian pastor of Iraqi descent who is supported by the Village Church and director and founder of the Family Life Development Foundation. His vision is to bring together Arabic and Assyrian-speaking refugees and immigrants, for the purpose of teaching and supporting one another, using principles of God’s word. For more information, visit the Family Life Development Foundation website.

Jossour is a ministry in Egypt whose vision is to see all the people of Egypt and the Arab World saved and the church growing in the knowledge of the truth (I Timothy 2:4) through:

Partnering with like-minded organizations, ministries, and churches
Impacting the local church through an integrated ministry approach including discipleship, leadership training, evangelism, and relief
Equipping and sending missionaries to different fields

Cairo, Egypt: Synod of the Nile

Five blocks from the Nile River, Kasr El Dobara Evangelical Church is the largest Protestant church in the Arab world with over 8,000 members. Their vision is built in part on the blessing of Egypt found in Isaiah 19:25, "Blessed is Egypt, My people," as well as the prophecy found in Habakkuk, "because the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." Their goal is to see a nationwide revival in which people come into a permanent relationship with Jesus Christ. The basic ministerial focuses of this great church have been: prayer, unity, discipleship, submission to the Holy Spirit and mission.

Tabarre, Haiti, Manes and Lociana Barthelemy

Haitian Pastor Manes leads a church in the former Displaced Persons Camp Tabarre/Issa. He leads worship services, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. His wife Lociana is the head of Myosotis School, a growing early elementary school for this population.

Haiti newsletter for September 2019.
Haiti newsletter for June 2019.
Haiti newsletter for March 2019.

List of items needed - please contribute and help the children in Haiti

Chiapas, Mexico; Pablo and Jan Feliciano

Hebron USA exists to share the love of Jesus Christ by walking hand-in-hand in cross-cultural partnerships and by serving and supporting the servants of the people in Southern Mexico. For a number of years they have facilitated a number of trips to the Chiapas region to minister to the Tzeltal people, and one of their major projects currently involves the building of a medical clinic in that region.

Winnetka, IL: Dan McNerney

Rev. Dan McNerney is an associate director for the Frontier Fellowship (PFF), a validated mission support group of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA. PFF exists to help our denomination develop frontier mission projects around the world to unreached people groups. As one of PFF's associate directors, Dan's areas of concentration are Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Europe. When not overseas working with frontier partners and missionaries, Dan travels throughout the United States mobilizing Presbyterian prayers, people, and resources into nearly 100 PFF projects.

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