Humboldt Park United Methodist Church is a community of believers who proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and who witness to our congregation, our neighborhood and our world of the new possibilities for life which Jesus Christ gives us. For over a hundred years our task has been to bring persons into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ and into this Christian fellowship, to help persons grow as disciples of Jesus Christ, and to send forth these disciples to live and proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ for all the world. Our predecessor congregations, representing the Methodist Episcopal and Evangelical United Brethren Churches, began in ministry over one hundred years ago in two different sites, one in the Humboldt Park neighborhood and the other in the Logan Square neighborhood. The Methodist Episcopal ministry was English-speaking while the Evangelical United Brethren ministry was German-speaking for the first several decades of its existence. A 1968 merger of these two predecessor denominations resulted in the two congregations forming the current Humboldt Park United Methodist Church and continuing in ministry at the Logan Square site on the corner of Mozart and Shakespeare Streets. This congregation launched a Spanish-speaking ministry shortly after the 1968 merger. Through the years the congregation has become a predominantly Spanish-speaking congregation, but it has always been language-sensitive as it has provided for simultaneous translation into English during worship services, and also by conducting some children’s Sunday School classes, United Methodist Youth Fellowship, and some special meetings in English. Whichever the language has been, the congregation has been blessed by God in offering a full gospel ministry to our community throughout the years. This range of ministry includes opportunities throughout the week for worship, prayer, Bible Study, Christian fellowship, and witnessing in both word and action through our community ministry partner Humboldt Park Social Services. This community agency for changing lives has focused on ministries with individuals and families who have been homeless and hopeless, but who now have both homes and hope thanks to a dedicated staff and volunteers, all of whom have been instruments of God’s healing and strengthening power.