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Volunteers

"The poor," Jesus said, "you always have with you." A recent newspaper article under-scored that fact, noting Chicago"s homeless population is again on the rise. Yet we are blessed to report that Cornerstone Community Outreach (CCO), Jesus People USA"s ministry to homeless women, children, families, and men, is also growing. As it grows, we need your help.

Three CCO outreaches are established: (1) The main "CCO Transitional Shelter," a four-month-long, all-aspects attempt at giving some seventy-fi ve women and children tools and skills to rebuild their lives, (2) our emer-gency overnight shelter for seventy-fi ve or so single women, (3) the Leland House, second-stage apartments for some sixty women and children. And, as we"ve done for years, we offer meals to low-income individuals not otherwise involved in CCO, serving dinners to some 225 persons three days a week.

Two new outreaches are based in our just-purchased "Sylvia Center," an old factory building near the original CCO shelter: (1) medium-term housing for approxi-mately twenty two-parent families, (2) the men"s emer-gency shelter offering beds for seventy-fi ve. These new outreaches further stretch our staff, making us more dependent than ever upon our friends and larger Church family.

We need your finances, your muscles, your minds, and your prayers. Our Sylvia Center in particular is in need. We have many ideas for programs not yet in place due to lack of staffing and funds.

Do you have carpentry, electrical, or plumbing skills? Would you like to bring a youth group to help us serve food or tear down some old walls at Sylvia Center? Are the outreaches of Sylvia Center, or another ministry of CCO, something you"d like to financially partner with us in accomplishing? The needs are incalculable, and we rely on the rest of Christ"s Body, the Church, to help in this challenging, tough, yet central task. •

Want to be a CCO volunteer? Please call Lyda Jackson at 773-506-6534, or email: ljackson@jpusa.org. To fi nancially support CCO"s ministries, please write CCO, c/o Sandy Ramsey, 4628 N. Clifton Ave., Chicago, IL 60640.