[April 18-20 Chicago]

The Mission on Our Doorsteps Movement is partnering with the Ethnic America Network to host a Chicago-wide summit in 2013 with the vision to draw together what is one of the most racially divided cities (and church bodies) in the U.S. for the purpose of Spirit-led transformation.

Building on 7 years of Mission on Our Doorsteps Conferences, we intend to utilize the Ethnic Ministries Summit in April 2013 as a catalytic event to grow and reproduce a movement of God’s people across cultures and classes into mission. Starting with the “end in mind”, we want to look together at the next 2-5 years to consider how God might want to move and equip His people to serve and reach the “global diaspora” that He has brought to our neighborhoods.  

The four multi-year initiatives that we are focused upon and will be sub-themes for the Summit are:

• Human Trafficking
• Immigration
• Host & Hosted Church Relationships
• Generational Issues in Immigrant Churches

Leaning heavily upon the cultural and language expertise of immigrant pastors and churches, we want to explore a vision for Chicagoland Church unity marked by love, shared resources, and a clear focus on mission.

Please save the date for the 2013 Summit and check back soon as plans for the Summit unfold on this website.

The 2013 Ethnic Ministries Summit Planning Team

		Suffering & Celebrating through Immigration & Human Trafficking Pastor Noel Castellanos is the CEO of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) based in Chicago. He has worked in full-time ministry in urban communities since 1982, and was a long-time CCDA board member. Noel established the CCDA Institute, which equips emerging leaders in the CCD philosophy.
		Suffering & Celebrating through Generational Issues in Immigrant Churches Sam George  is the executive director of Parivar International, a Christian family ministry to the Asian Indian communities in North America. He holds both engineering and business degrees and worked in the software industry before stepping into Christian ministry. He studied at Fuller and Princeton Theological Seminaries. He currently is doing PhD research at Andrew Walls Center for World Christianity in Liverpool (UK). He is the author of Understanding the Coconut Generation.
		Suffering & Celebrating through Immigration & Human Trafficking Pastor Mark Jobe is the Lead Pastor of New Life Community Church. Under his leadership New Life has grown from a hand full of people to several thousand that meet at fourteen campuses throughout Chicago that meet in different languages. New Life has become one of the fastest growing and influential churches in Chicago and a model of multi-ethnic ministry. He and his wife Dee have three great children and view themselves as a team in ministry.