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Over the last two years, we have seen great growth in our young adults community. We are so encouraged to see them excited to fellowship in the... (read more)
Often, we can feel like we are the only ones who are struggling. But our LIFE Group openly shares life situations with one another. We share how the Lord is doing amazing things in our lives, and we also “bear one another’s burdens."
It has been nothing less than glorious and a picture of what the Church should be – learning and growing from one another with the Lord as our sure and unchanging Rock.
Building community is hard; it is a slow, arduous process that takes work and was something we tried to focus on in 2019. Then comes 2020.
Sometimes there are tears and hugs and tissue boxes. Sometimes there is recognition – an understanding “you too?” moment. Always we take one step closer to knowing each other. Always these very different women with very different lives become our sisters, fulfilling our Shepherd’s prayer that we...
She was extremely blessed by Pastor Colin’s series and worship and prayed her adult daughter would join us too. After about a month her daughter did join us and a month later brought her boyfriend as well.
Covid has provided an amazing season of ministry. We have had two students put their faith in Christ this month!
It was a blessing to be able to talk and pray with those who I saw and could personally hand the bag to them.
Approximately 75 people walked and prayed the words of Psalm 67 as we cried out to the Lord for His grace, the advance of the Gospel in Chicago and all nations of the Earth, for gladness concerning the equitable judgments of our King and for the name of the Lord to be praised!
There are unbelievers who have come to know the love of Jesus and there are believers who have been strengthened in their faith on account of the work that God has done here, in this place!