by Christian Coon | Jun 21, 2017 | BLOG, Evangelism, LGBTQ
In honor of Pride Week here in Chicago, this week’s post is an excerpt from my book about our church’s experience with the Pride Parade: Every year on the last Sunday of June, an estimated one million people line the streets in Chicago’s Uptown, Lakeview,...
by Christian Coon | Jun 15, 2017 | BLOG, Evangelism
Every year each of our Urban Village sites pays a vendor fee so that it can have a presence in one of Chicago’s many neighborhood summer festivals. Our South Loop site just finished its second involvement with the Printers Row Lit Fest last weekend. I signed up...
by Christian Coon | Jun 7, 2017 | BLOG
When raising children, it’s very easy to let toys accumulate (like the Legos that are still in one of our storage baskets above). As kids outgrow their favorite playthings, the action figures and blocks and dolls make their way into closets or other storage...