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GOD IN THE CITY

Esperanza Youth Leadership Institute is a collaborative leadership development organization that inspires vision, provides educational opportunities at the grassroots and degree level, and develops resources for those that work with urban youth and beyond.

Save the Date NOW for God in the City 2025 on May 31st, 2025 – You don’t want to miss this!

On May 31st, 2025, EYLI will be hosting our 4th annual God in the City Conference. Our annual God in the City Conference inspires and equips youth ministers with contextual resources to effectively reach young people in the urban context and seeks to inspire everyone to appreciate the city’s beauty, a place filled with abundance and hope!

Participate in enriching workshops, network with others serving and inspiring youth in the urban context, and celebrate how God is already at work in the city. Afterwards, bring your youth to the annual Afterparty with musical performances, raffle prizes, and an opportunity for youth to respond to God in the City.

God in the City
Connecting with God in the Urban Context, A 30-Day Devotional for Youth and Young Adults

In a user-friendly format, the Esperanza Youth Leadership Institute (EYLI) has created a practical format for youth and young adults to practice one or more spiritual disciplines. God in the City is a devotional and a journal for city folk. One of the aims of this tool is for the reader, observer, and writer to see and appreciate God through the beauty of the city. EYLI believes that God can be seen, and His presence can be sensed, through some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods as well as its people. They designed this resource less as a narrative or written short story as most devotionals are designed, and more as a pictorial prompt, in order to encourage those who are more visual to discern the presence of God in a more artistic way. Using less common Bible passages, its references, and a positive lens of the city, this will be a spiritual resource for years to come.

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