Celebration of Hope "Food Challenge"

Celebration of Hope at Willow Creek Community Church provides many opportunites to focus on and care for others as Jesus taught. This past weekend, we had opportunities to learn about the need for clean drinking water in places around the world right in the lobby of our church. Did you have a conversation?

Next weekend 4/25 & 26 in Elgin, 1200 people will have an opportunity to make a difference by packaging sustainable food packs for starving children. My heart was filled this morning to see that almost 1000 have signed up to serve. If you have not registered, or would like to invite more, there are openings on Saturday and Sunday at 5 PM.

Today begins the 5 day "Food Challenge" at Willow. Many of us are participating. I am using this time to open my heart to God. He has already blessed me. Watching 96 of you register for FMSC last night moved my heart to praise. What is your experience?

Come back to the blog each day this week. There will be regular posts. Before leaving the blog today, post a comment on how God is beginning to speak, what you hope He will do in your heart, or perhaps a blessing already provided. My hope is we can encourage others and lift up "Yeah God" stories. READY for the CHALLENGE? Start now!

Blessings,
Your Area Pastor

Get involved and make a difference.

Celebration of Hope is looking for volunteers to pack 4 million meals for Feed My Starving Children. Our community serve takes place on April 24-26 at the CARS ministry in Elgin. Click now and sign up to take part in this great celebration.

Get Ready For Another Celebration of Hope

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you is this year's Celebration of Hope. See how you can change a life by participating in packing nutritious food for Feed My Starving Children. Community, fellowship and stylish hair nets are free of charge.

Baptism at Willow

A wonderful celebration of proclaming faith in Christ! There is nothing like baptism at Willow. Congratulations to those who are in our Southwest community.

Time to catch up!

We hope everyone had a great Christmas and a great start to the New Year! Now that the holidays are over, let's reflect on the past month and the generosity that runs through the blood of Creekers. Several in our group had a Stock the Storehouse party and they were a great success. The contribution in the Elgin location is over 600 items and the total for the church is over 56,000 items. Wow! The hope was to get 50,000 but again, the people proved generosity and compasion starts with us. Yey God!
Get yourself ready for another challenge coming down the pipe. Remember Celebration of Hope? Think Spring and hope we will be thawed out by then.

Stock the Storehouse Open House

Recently, our Area Pastor LaVerne had a successful open house for Stock the Storehouse. Do you have a similar story? Share with us by sending pictures or video to southwestneighbors@gmail.com.

How to host your own Stock the Storehouse Party

Area Pastor LaVerne shows us how you can Prepare and host a stock the Storehouse Christmas party. Watch and get tips on how to have a successful event. If you host an event, let us know how it went or send us pictures or videos on how it went to southwestneighbors@gmail.com.