Family Empowerment Centers

Family Empowerment Centers is a faith-based nonprofit located in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the Northside of Chicago. We exist to glorify God and love our neighbors by strengthening young urban families in Christ as we create real opportunities of empowerment and care for the needs of those facing greater challenges in urban America. It is our conviction that all people, from every nation of the world are of equal value and concern before God. It is also our conviction that although mankind is of equal value before God, often times the opportunities for empowerment and freedom are selective due to issues of systemic and personal injustices. We seek to bring a balance to these circumstances by loving our neighbors in a Christ-like manner and creating opportunities for those who are disadvantaged in our urban communities to attain empowerment and freedom. We have chosen to target urban communities on the basis that these communities tend to include people from all of the nations of the world and- at the same time- seems to be the epicenter for injustice, inequality, and issues of poverty. In the same manner that trends move out from major metropolitan cities, our organization believes that as people are empowered they too may move out from urban communities to various world destinations creating change in their environments. We define the word family as: a multi-individual group of people, often times made up of a father, mother, and child, but not limited to those roles in which the group bears the relational characteristics of a family. We recognize that the family unit is the most influential determinant in the growth of individuals and society as a whole.