Jim Elliot Fellowship

Naperville Evangelism
11.2.2024
In October, we hosted a training session for a young adults group at High Point Church in Naperville. This month, we invited this group to participate in an outreach in downtown Naperville. We praise God for many good conversations. Two agnostics stopped and talked for a long time, and one left with a Bible.

West Loop Prayer Walk
11.9.2024
Love Life Chicago put on a powerful event that we were thankful to join. Many Christians from Bible-believing Chicago churches filled part of the West Loop with songs of praise and prayers for the unborn. The sidewalks were packed as we marched around the busiest abortion mill in Chicago. Simultaneously, a team of sidewalk counselors and evangelists, fueled by the prayers of the saints, stood by the entrance and engaged with moms and dads. Rev. Brandon Myers of Christ the King Reformed Baptist Church gave a short sermon.

Loop Evangelism
11.5.2024 & 11.23.2024
On the 15th, JEF had a joint outreach with Doxa, the evangelism team at Moody Bible Institute. Jeremy gave a sermonette at the devotional time before a large group hit the streets near the Chicago Theater in the evening. A handful of students stayed in Moody’s Broman Chapel for three hours, filling the sails of those evangelizing with their prayers. Almost every weekend, Doxa brings the gospel to the city on Friday nights, and we bring it on Saturday afternoons.

NYC Evangelism
11.29.2024
Jeremy and Hannah had a fruitful Thanksgiving in NYC, and the Lord opened doors for the gospel to go forth. Pray for a Roman Catholic Christmas Tree seller named Lorraine from Quebec, whom Jeremy got to speak with two days in a row. On the second day, he gratefully received Jeremy’s personal New Testament held in the photo below. After preaching to a receptive and respectful crowd at the 103rd street Subway station, everyone sitting on the Uptown side took a gospel tract.

Chicago Evangelism Updates Pt. 2:

Loop Evangelism
10.19.2024 & 10.26.2024
Colin, Mario, and Jensen held down the fort in Millennium Park on the 19th and brought the gospel to many lying in darkness. A week later, Dane, Jeremy, Emily, Jared, and Mike shared the gospel on the Riverwalk, where we were encouraged by many long, fruitful conversations and contacts for the Bible study. A lady from Bridgeport told us that if we start a church there, she would definitely come.

Evangelism Class
10.24.2024
On Thursday the 24th, Jeremy taught a two-part evangelism class for the Highpoint Young Adults group in Naperville, IL. The first part covered the method of evangelism, and the second part covered the message of evangelism. Jeremy and JY had a live evangelism demonstration at the end, with JY as the unbeliever.
Jim Elliot Fellowship is passionate about training, encouraging, and mobilizing normal believers to evangelize in an accessible, loving, and theologically sound way. We would love to put on a training session or conference for your church.

Bible Study in Chicago Updates:

Chinatown Bible Study
10.3.2024
On October 3rd, Rev. Iain Wright joined us for Bible study in Chinatown. The group enjoyed writing various words in other languages and drawing pictures on a wall that was about to be repainted. We covered the crucifixion of Christ for undeserving sinners in John 19.

Loop Bible Study
10.17.2024
As Charles Spurgeon wrote, “No sort of defense is needed for preaching out of doors; but it would need very potent arguments to prove that a man had done his duty who has never preached beyond the walls of his meeting house. A defense is required rather for services within buildings than for worship outside of them.”
Our two main hosts were unavailable this particular Thursday but the Lord answered our prayers for a meeting location. Carla graciously hosted us on her roof deck, over 20 stories off of the ground of the Loop. 7 years ago began sharing the gospel at the zero-zero point of the city, the center of the grid at State and Madison. In the providence of God, we got to meet above that spot, one block away from where it all started. Dane led our study on the resurrection of Jesus in John 20 to the sound of distant cars below and under the fire, skyscrapers, airplanes, and stars above.

Chicago Evangelism Updates pt.2:
9.14.24
Colin, Sara Grace, and Jeremy spent the morning filming for our movie on Biblical Theology. Afterwards, we had a great outreach in the park in which we shared the gospel by interviewing a few people on video for our YouTube channel, Reformation Chicago Radio.

9.21.24 & 9.28.24
We had two lovely Saturday outreaches. Dr. Watkins led a large group of believers from the Presbytery to evangelize door to door near Grace OPC in Hanover Park. It was encouraging to see how respectful people were and how some good conversations emerged. A handful of people were invited to church. The proximity of the church building in the community made it much easier to engage in this work.
And finally, Dane, Olivia, Jared, and Emily closed out the month with a strong outreach of fruitful conversations in downtown Chicago.

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Bridgeport Bible Study
7.11.2024
New Life Community Church in Bridgeport kindly let our Bible study meet at their church on July 11th. We ate Chicago style pizza and had a great meeting. Two visitors came and heard the gospel.
University of Chicago Evangelism
7.13.24
Dane and Jeremy had some great conversations at the University of Chicago on Saturday the 13th. We spoke with students from Mexico City, Ghana, and all over the country. A highlight of the day was evangelizing a young man named Micah who was extremely receptive to the gospel and wanted to be saved. Please pray for Micah’s salvation. He had to go home, but he left with some resources and told us he would seek the Lord in prayer when he arrived home.
While we were speaking with Micah, the lady pictured above was stopped at the red light and listened in to the conversation. She was so encouraged hearing about Jesus that she pulled over and started talking with us. We reasoned with her about how justification is by faith alone because she is in a cult which came out of the Church of Christ. Although we debated with her, she loved what we were doing and wants us to evangelize her nephew who studies at UChicago.