“Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him.”

We hope you enjoy our website and find it to be a wealth of information about what is going on in the new Chicagoland Via de Cristo Community – “Taste of Grace.”
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and we shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit instructs the hearts of the faithful, grant, that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolations. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

OUR MISSION
“By grace with the Holy Spirit, we challenge leaders to discover and achieve their personal calling, assisting them to influence their environments with the Gospel.”

The purpose of Via de Cristo is, above all to see the world reconciled to Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:20).

We believe that Jesus, in the great commission, has challenged every Christian to “go into all the world and make disciples (Matthew 28:18-20).

By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have developed an effective method, through which He works toward the salvation of the world. In the Via de Cristo method individuals are increasingly equipped with God’s grace (Ephesians 1:119) and empowered to be truly effective servants in the body of Christ. Via de Cristo is one of several methods available to the church today to to help renew the faith that is already a gift to believers.

As a little yeast leavens the whole loaf (Matthew 13:33), so we become the yeast for Christ. For Christ we are salt to the world.