New Fall Sunday Morning Classes: 9:10 a.m. Tim Keller’s Prodigal God Study “Taking his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity, Timothy Keller uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Within that parable, Jesus reveals God’s prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the Read More
Posts by Amy Edwards
Hinged: Vitally Connected to Christ and His Church
Every Tuesday evening this summer at 7 p.m. the Evangel Women’s Ministry is hosting a Bible study over the book of Ephesians. Hinged: Vitally Connected to Christ and His Church is a study that we are doing in tandem with the PCA National Women’s Ministry Team. There is still time to join us! Drop us Read More
Grieving the Loss of Meeting Together
A question I have been asking recently is, “Why do we feel such a loss concerning not being together for Sunday worship?” “Why do we feel such a loss concerning not being together for Sunday worship?” Since I have had a little more time to read, I’ve dived back into the book The Church of Christ, Read More
Praying through Pandemic: Prayer Guide
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who Read More
Evangel Church Ministries COVID-19 Update
Dear Member and Regular Attender, The Session of Evangel met on Monday, March 16 to discuss our response to the COVID-19 crisis gripping our nation. We decided to suspend all church ministries for the foreseeable future. Instead, we will begin online streaming of Sunday worship, starting March 22, 2020. We will continue this approach until Read More
Special Announcement for Services 3/15/2020
Brothers and Sisters, We will be meeting for worship but not Sunday school tomorrow. The Session understands that some of you are in the high risk category. We want to encourage you to follow proper protocol. You best know your circumstance, so if that means staying home, please feel free to stay home. The Elders are Read More
Christmas in the City
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
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
Interview: Phyllis Kik
God did that!” is a phrase I heard several times as I visited with Phyllis Kik this month. Phyllis has seen God’s hand in her life from an early age, and she shares stories of His glorious work in her life with the same joy and purpose as the beautiful, brightly colored flowers in her Read More
For God So Loved the World
A survey was conducted in a large suburban area concerning church attendance. Four primary reasons were given for not attending church: They always bug me for money. It’s boring, routine, predictable. It’s irrelevant; it doesn’t relate to my life. I always leave feeling guilty. There is a preoccupation with sin and the negative aspects Read More