Big Life is on a mission.

Big life is on a spiritual mission.  We exist to share Jesus.

Big life partners with local service providers to impact the community through physical mission work as well.

Get Involved.  Participate in mission work.

INK 180

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Serving in partnership with local law enforcement & philanthropic organizations, Chris and Lisa Baker are making a difference one life at a time by covering up tattoos that link a person to their destructive or victimized past.  INK 180 is a mission of PneuProject that charges nothing for its ministry of second chances covering gang and human trafficking tattoos.  It is entirely funded by donations from people like you.  Get involved in INK 180 and give the gift of a second chance.

YoungLife

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Young Life is an independent youth ministry that thinks the world of kids. YL believes that kids deserve to know what life can hold for them. Young Life leaders are caring adults from local churches and the community who create lasting friendships with kids, share the Gospel in action, all while having fun. Young Life is all about fun. From club and camp to Campaigners and other activities, teenagers will have blast laughing, trying new things and being with their friends.
  
Even though Young Life is especially for kids, parents and other adults in the community are important to Young Life. Adults can support Young Life in a variety of ways — by becoming a volunteer leader or committee member, by attending a Young Life fund-raising event, by hosting Young Life or by simply telling others in the community about Young Life and its commitment to kids.

Young Life Oswego
PO Box 355
Oswego, IL 60543-0355
Phone: 630-551-8650
http://Oswego.younglife.org

Night to Shine Special Needs Prom

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Big Life C.C. has hosted the local Special Needs Prom since 2015 in partnership with Celebrate Differences, a local NFP.  In 2016, the church partnered with the Tim Tebow Foundation to merge the local prom with the Night to Shine.  The next Night to Shine Special Needs prom will take place on February 10, 2017 and will again be a magical prom experience for all special needs individuals age 16+.  The event includes dancing with a professional DJ (Villa Productions), dinner buffet, karaoke, limo rides, corsages, and each guest is crowned king or queen.
Read more and see pictures from past events at

Saturday Stars Mentoring - Community 4:12

Saturday Stars is a mentoring and tutoring program on Saturday mornings during the school year.  There are three schools involved in SS, Bardwell, Brady, and Beaupre.  Bardwell is mentoring, and the other two are tutoring.

Saturday Stars starts with an orientation/training on October 8, and the program begins with kids on October 15 and runs through April 29, taking breaks as school does.  The hours are from 9:45am until noon. There are three stations---craft/experiments, gym time, and game time, followed by a snack.  Volunteers literally just need to show up.  Each adult volunteer needs to be background checked and fingerprinted and go through orientation/training.

For more info contact Kate Hall at katehall74@sbcglobal.net

Boys to Men

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Boys To Men
Boys to Men is an Aurora-based mentoring program that instills confidence and purpose in young men at risk.   They work with boys through Junior High and High School years, ensuring graduation from school and growth in personal responsibility.
Mission: 
To shatter the stereotypes, break the barriers, and overcome the obstacles that have become the norm for young men by promoting the life-transforming power of education, discipline, service, culture, and brotherhood.
Vision:
To establish a fraternal network of young men who will personify excellence based on the principles taught in our own educational institution.

Boys II Men P.O. Box 1353 Aurora, IL 60507   http://boys2menonline.org/index.html

Real Hope for Haiti

Real Hope for Haiti provides critical intervention medical care to children.  They usher many little ones on the brink of starvation, death, and suffering through disease towards health.  Donations to this mission impact subsistence medical care like IV fluids, antibiotics, basic feeding, etc.   

Celebrate Differences


Celebrate Differences is an independent local non-profit, committed to creating a place for families of children with disabilities to feel a part of a larger, accepting community.  Celebrate Differences is an all-inclusive Disability Awareness Center, in Oswego, IL, welcoming all children and their families regardless of age or disability. They offer services - such as informative monthly workshops, sib shops, resource library, annual summer and holiday party, Next Chapter book club, play groups, Autism and Down syndrome support group and much MORE! They connect families through our outreach projects, our social activities and social networking.

Sponsor Children

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Big life leadership team members are committed to sponsoring children around the world.  
Marissa, Geoff, and Rhys currently sponsor 5 children around the world.  We want to encourage you as your faith moves to action to consider assisting kids with education, food, and healthcare.  For a small sum of money each month, you can immediately and directly change the course of a child's life.  And you can encourage the children and form a strong, lasting friendship through letter-writing!

Week of Compassion

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Week of Compassion is the relief, refugee, and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. We seek to equip and empower disciples to alleviate the suffering of others through disaster response, humanitarian aid, sustainable development and the promotion of mission opportunities.

The listed mission opportunities may be offered through collaboration with other local churches/ independent service providers.