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Monday 1pm - 7pm Tuesday 1pm - 7pm Wednesday 1pm - 7pm Thursday 1pm - 7pm Friday 1pm - 7pm

Englewood Family Outreach, 672 W Marquette Road, Chicago, IL (2026)

Vision: a redeemed community
Mission: to restore our communities in Englewood by proclaiming the Gospel, training in godliness, and empowering the vulnerable.
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in. "If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord , and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." ISA 58:6‭-‬14 ESV

09/24/2026

Forty years in Englewood this year! 🎉🎊🎈🥳

We have been telling our neighbors about Jesus on the South Side of Chicago since 1986. Same neighborhood, same blocks, and a good many of the same neighbors (some of whom were kids when we got here and now have kids of their own).

Forty years is long enough to be wrong about a lot of things, and we have been... Englewood has taught us far more than we ever taught Englewood. It is also long enough to learn that this neighborhood has seen plenty of programs come and go, and what it needs is people who stay. So we stay. We know our neighbors by name: Bible studies for boys, girls, and adults, an after-school club on weekday afternoons, and a school opening in the fall of 2027, all at the corner of 67th and Union.

Two small favors, if you are willing. First, follow this page so the stories from Marquette Road show up in your feed. Secondly, if you ever sat in one of our Bible studies, came to the club after school, or served alongside us at any point since 1986, comment the year. We really want to see how far back (and how far out) this goes!

P.s. If your year is 1986 you win. We don't know what yet, but you win.

08/25/2026

What a beautiful day yesterday to meet new students walking home from school and reconnect with ones we hadn't seen all summer! Happy first day of school, Chicago Students!

A special 'Thank You!' to our friends who made cookies to hand out to students on their way home!

04/07/2026

"A Young Archer"
Govaert Flinck
c. 1639–1640
Oil on oak panel
66.2 cm × 50.8 cm

03/30/2026

On the way to pick up a friend flying to Chicago, I suddenly realized I was headed to the wrong airport! And it was not the first time this had happened to me. One would think a seasoned Chicagoan like myself would have learned by now; when flying to or from Chicago, one of the first questions you must ask is to which airport you will travel: O’Hare or Midway? Often, that decision is based on cost: which airline offers the cheapest route? Sometimes it is based on flight availability, looking for a direct flight from one’s home airport. Or it could be based on their final destination within the city: do they want to end up further north or further south?
Parents consider similar logistical factors when deciding where to send their children to school. The decision is often: public or private? In Englewood, that choice is: traditional public school or charter school? They weigh the options based on location, safety, and available programs, much like comparing the routes and conveniences of O’Hare and Midway.
However, there is another option that most people do not even know exists. If you want to fly into Chicago, you are not limited to the major commercial hubs. Just north of O’Hare is Chicago Executive Airport. You will not find Delta or United flights landing on its runways. Instead, it services private aviation companies such as SC Aviation. I have never picked up anyone at Chicago Executive Airport. I did not even know it existed until I Googled it today.
For our families in Chicago, Classical Christian school is the educational equivalent of Chicago Executive Airport. In Englewood, the concept of a private education is so foreign that it would be like me trying to book a flight on SC Aviation. I did not even know the airline existed, let alone how to navigate booking a flight.
This is precisely the barrier we are working to overcome at Archer. We desire to introduce our community to this hidden option. We want to show families that they are not limited to the standard terminals of traditional education. There is a destination that prioritizes not merely standard test scores, but the cultivation of the soul.
But, just as booking a private charter flight is cost-prohibitive for the average traveler, private education is financially out of reach for most of our families. The tuition and the required resources present insurmountable barriers.
They need you. Your financial support acts as the ticket that grants these children access to an education they otherwise could never attain. By contributing, you are helping us navigate this unfamiliar process for these families and guiding them to an educational path that will shape their character for a lifetime. We are asking you to help us open the doors to this new educational destination for students who have only ever known the standard routes.
Please consider partnering with us today to help provide this life-changing opportunity for the children of Englewood: partner.archerchristian.org

03/27/2026

It's a Thursday afternoon and I'm sitting in the back of our after-school tutoring room, trying to be invisible.

Our tutors are extraordinary people. Patient. Trained. Genuinely devoted to these kids. And they are losing. Not for lack of effort — but because the children in front of them arrived already carrying something no tutoring session can fully address: the accumulated weight of a school day inside a system that is not built for them.

I watch a boy — maybe nine years old, bright eyes, sharp as a tack when he talks about the things he loves — stare at a worksheet like it's written in a foreign language. Because in some ways, it is. The gap between where he should be and where the system has left him is not one tutoring session wide. It is years wide. And it widens every day.

According to the state report card, fewer than 1 in 5 Chicago students can perform grade-level math. Nearly half of all CPS students missed more than ten percent of their school year. In Englewood, those numbers get worse. This is the environment our tutors are trying to remediate — and God bless them for it. But you cannot re-aim an arrow mid-flight. Not entirely.

I sat there in that room and heard something I can only describe as a calling breaking open inside me: What if we aimed them true from the start?

Not intervention. Formation.

Not remediation. Education — whole-person, Christ-centered, classical education, from kindergarten forward, in the heart of this community.

That moment is why Archer Christian Academy exists. It was not a comfortable moment. I told many people afterward that I didn't want to start a school. But God is not always in the business of asking us what we want.

We are building the school that changes what happens in that room. Not at 3:47 in the afternoon — but at 8:00 in the morning, when the arrow is still being formed.

Join us: partner.archerchristian.org

Address

672 W Marquette Road
Chicago, IL
60621

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 7pm
Tuesday	1pm - 7pm
Wednesday	1pm - 7pm
Thursday	1pm - 7pm
Friday	1pm - 7pm

Website

https://www.englewoodfamily.org/

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