Imagine if you couldn’t afford to give your kids a gift at Christmas. That’s reality for many in Chicago Living Hope Church’s neighborhood, where our mission team served in the summer of 2018. To love their neighbors well, Living Hope has a Christmas store to give families a dignified, yet discounted, way to shop for READ MORE
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Thanksgiving’s Secret Sauce
Giving thanks. What is there to say? Everyone knows what it is. And everyone knows that it’s easy. *insert game show buzzer here* I think that’s a bit like saying parenting is easy, until you have children. Patience is easy, until you have to wait. Thanksgiving is easy…until we don’t feel thankful. I can give READ MORE
Welcoming All
We are continuing to be intentional about hospitality at Evangel, and want to take every opportunity to make our guests, regular attenders, and members feel welcome and at home. In the coming months, we will be improving our welcome in several ways. Connect Cards. Soon we will begin recording attendance with READ MORE
The Anchor of Thankfulness
As I sit down to write this article, I see that the forecast is calling for the first week of October to have highs in the 70’s. Today is the first day of Fall and we can see the crops turning. Harvest is around the corner. Soon it will be Thanksgiving Day and many families READ MORE
Worshipping with Music
You may have noticed some changes in the music at Evangel over the last year. These changes are not random, but are the result of much prayer, wise council, study, and effort toward a cohesive and obedient worship that draws our hearts toward God. First, how are the songs chosen? Once the sermon is outlined, READ MORE
Ushering in the New
As you may have noticed in recent weeks, ushering has changed a bit. Evangel’s tradition of providing a bulletin as congregants enter the sanctuary has shifted both in form and in purpose. The changes are small but notable, so an explanation is due. What’s changed is that instead of having two points of contact, there READ MORE
Communicating the Mission
Ever since the days of the early church, Christians have used symbols to both embody the essence of their faith and to identify themselves as belonging to Christ. Whether it be through the famous Ichthys fish symbol with the Greek letters for “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior” inside (ΙΧΘΥΕ) or through the various versions READ MORE
Women of the Word: James
Women’s Bible Study begins 9/10 or 9/11 with a study of the book of James. We hope you will join us! Second and Fourth Tuesday evening (7 p.m. at Jackie Rackley’s home) or Wednesday morning (9:30 a.m. at Evangel Pres). Childcare available on Wednesday mornings in the church nursery. We’ll be studying James with the READ MORE
Showing the Way
Be watching for some new interior signs around the hallways of our buildings, making it easier for guests to find where they need to go. We want everyone to feel welcome and at ease in our space, and these directional signs will be help accomplish that hospitality goal. READ MORE
Learning in the Library
Did you hear? Evangel has a church library and changes are happening there. No, it doesn’t look different—still books on shelves, but in a few months, you will be able to view the church library’s entire book catalog from wherever you have internet access. How convenient is that? So far, we have the over-300-book READ MORE