OUR HISTORY
In 1976 - Founded by Bud Ogle, Good News Partners began a great work for Rogers Park youth and other interested members of our community aspired to a better future. Together, we learned about the struggles of poverty and racism, but also courage and resilience.
We realized that for our youth to thrive, our entire community needed to be a place of support and resource. We began then to seek ways to make hope tangible. In 1980 we purchased the Jonquil Hotel, once a haven for drugs, prostitution, and gangs. Since then, we have rehabbed hundreds of units of housing and established a shelter, rental housing, homeownership cooperatives, as well as jobs, tutoring, and youth programs.
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In 1979 – Good News Community Church was established with the founding pastor of Robert Tschannen-Moran. Who door to door witnessing about the Good News of Jesus Christ and later opened the church at its current location. In 1983 Good News Kitchen was open to eradicating homelessness and hunger concerns invading the rogers park community. In 2010 A Just Harvest acquire Good News Kitchen and has been carrying the mission to expand to feed the hungry, economic development, and community organizing and advocacy. Good News church has always been in the community for the community. During its tenure, they have had 7 dynamic pastors, all of whom have expanded the faith and witness for Christ and the church universal. Its dynamic choir that sings to the Glory of God has shared the gifts during several interdenominational concerts, community engagement, and strong leadership.
