:: Zion Temple Church Of God In Christ ::

ZION TEMPLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

The Zion Community Development Corp is the community service arm of Zion Temple Church of God In Christ (COGIC). Although first conceived in the south during the 1940’s, Zion Temple COGIC has been located in and ministering to residents of North Lawndale for the last 50 years.

Among some of the programs that the CDC has established to serve the North Lawndale community have been the monthly distribution of free food; distribution of free clothing; winter coat drives; distribution of free back to school supplies; family/teen counseling; and a number of other economic self improvement programs.

Led by president Robert E. Booker, the CDC, aided with a grant from the Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI), started up its Computer Technology Program. Located on the second floor of the church building, the Computer Technology Program will afford community residents an opportunity to learn and become proficient on a home desk-top computer. Students are taught the basics of computer software, including internet access, while others are instructed on how to tear down, repair and put together defective computers. The goal of the computer technology program is to give economically disadvantaged neighborhood residents an opportunity to develop personal and professional skills that will teach them how to operate and repair computers thereby giving them a valuable employable skill in the technological information field.