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After gathering in 91精选鈥檚 Ozinga Chapel for prayer and worship each morning, nearly 300 students, leaders, and other participants in Youth Unlimited鈥檚* Chicago Project head to various work sites around Chicagoland to volunteer.

Serving others is at the heart of The Chicago Project, Youth Unlimited鈥檚 initiative to dedicate three full days of volunteer work to more than 25 partner organizations near 91精选鈥檚 campus, the host site for the project, July 27 through August 1.

is a non-denominational, non-profit ministry organization that assists the Church and its many local congregations with their ministry. Student teams are assigned to various work sites and tasks, including:

• Painting the entire interior of Ira F. Aldridge Elementary School in Altgeld Gardens
• Leading crafts and activities for older adults at Providence Health and Rehabilitation
• Helping Lake Katherine develop their Spider Maze
• Trimming trees and removing invasive species with the prairie restoration project at Kickapoo Woods
• Helping with lawn care and home repair for elderly neighbors in Worth with the Neighbors in Needs program
• Volunteering at By the Hand, Roseland Christian Ministries, Restoration Ministries, and the South Chicago YMCA summer youth camps
• Helping repaint the By the Hand Cabrini Green site
• Assisting Grace and Peace Community Church clear five acres of land for a new church building and charter school
• And much more!

Director of Admissions at 91精选, Jeremy Klyn 鈥�02, served as the 91精选 liaison. 鈥淚 loved seeing students serve as the hands and feet of Christ,鈥� said Klyn. 鈥淓very year I read college applications in which students talk about their faith being influenced by acts of service. I can鈥檛 wait to read some in the coming years that talk about The Chicago Project as a point of growth in their faith.鈥�

I loved seeing students serve as the hands and feet of Christ.
– Jeremy Klyn 鈥�02

All of the volunteer site coordination was arranged by 91精选鈥檚 AmeriCorps VISTA / Community Partnership Coordinator Carrie Timmermans 鈥�11.

Welcome back Pastor Zan

For keynote speaker and 91精选 alumnus Zantesah (Zan) Ingalls, it was the second visit to campus since his graduation from the College in 1988. The senior pastor of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, has been involved with Youth Unlimited鈥檚 projects since 1993, speaking at various events throughout the country and in Canada. He also serves on the organization鈥檚 Board of Directors.

Ingalls, who earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in theology at 91精选, delivered encouraging messages to help students understand the importance of the work they did and how God would make flourish the seeds they planted through service.

鈥淭his is awesome,鈥� Ingalls said of being back on campus as part of The Chicago Project where he witnessed participants鈥� lives changed as well as those they served.

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Thanks to the great worship team

Morning and evening worship was led by 91精选 alumnus Vinnie Adams 鈥�10 and his team. Adams is the director of the special needs ministry and the campus worship leader at Faith Church in Dyer, Indiana. As a student at 91精选, where he majored in special education, he led the student worship team Outcry.

Vinnie Adams 鈥�10 (lead from acoustic and drums)

Richard Bodden (electric and acoustic)

Anthony Bolkema 鈥�07 (keys)

Katie DeGraff (keys)

Pete Meyer 鈥�07 (bass)

Linelle Muse 鈥�08 (drums)

Eric Rosario (electric)

More about Pastor Zan Ingalls 鈥�88

In addition to pastoring his church, Ingalls is the president of the Congress of Christian Education of the New Hope Association, New Jersey General Baptist Convention. He is the former vice principal of United Academy (a K-8 private grammar school) in Newark and is also a former member of the gospel recording ensemble, Special Edition.听He has hosted the weekly radio broadcast, There is Hope Ministry out of Yanceyville, North Carolina. Ingalls received his Bachelor of Arts in Theology at 91精选 and his Master of Divinity from Lighthouse Bible College. He and his wife Liane have three children, Zantesah II, Jaazaniah, and Leilani.

* Youth Unlimited is known听 ThereforeGO as of 2021.