We are very excited about one of our very own staff members transitioning from the Care Center to a new role at Willow DuPage. Here is a brief picture of that journey: What is your role and briefly what will you be doing? My new role is the Community Life Pastor at Willow DuPage. I will mainly…
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Our first Evangelism Breakfast of 2013 was a roaring success! Young & old came out to be part of it. Steve Carter shared the Evangelism Vision for the year. So often people think that one needs to have the ‘evangelism’ gift to be on a team like this but friends this is not the case!…
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Taken from a blog post by Liz Abfall, Impact Staff. “We first met to discuss plans for Blast 2013 in the middle of the fall. The weather was still warm and Blast seemed centuries away…As we prayed and listened, God united our hearts behind a vision that only he could create…A camp that caused students,…
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New hope is on the horizon for many undocumented immigrants as they prepare their journey “out of the shadows” thanks to an intended comprehensive immigration reform fueled by the president and a bipartisan group of senators. Millions among the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants are of Asian, African and even European origin, but 56% of…
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Do you have a special administrative project that could use some horsepower in getting accomplished? Our mail project team is made up of 40 seniors who absolutely love to serve. They meet on Wednesdays in the afternoon and tell us that no project is too small or too large. Please contact them if you have a need. They are looking for…
Read MoreWe just received our December electric bill and have confirmed a reduction in overall facility electrical consumption for the fourth straight year. Due to the record setting summer heat, the reduction this year was not as significant as others, but together we have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by being ever attentive to implementing…
Read MoreHi! My name is Ian Philpot, and I work in the Communications Department. I am responsible for executing the social media messages from the church’s Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest accounts (and I also track check-ins on FourSquare). Since Christmas, I’ve been collecting data to understand how effective our social media campaign was this year….
Read MoreGabe has been attending Willow for over ten year and regularly for two years, but he just got connected to a community four months ago. It all began with him and his family finding their way to a section event. There he connected with others from the section and signed up to receive weekly section…
Read MoreHave you used the I.T. Ministry Service Desk system yet? Whether you have or not, we have a short, half-hour training that will help you see its simplicity. You can input requests, add notes, and check on the status of the request at any time! Our goal is to streamline our process and better serve…
Read MoreThis Christmas, Willow’s Volunteer Central served more than 4,000 volunteers. Serving in various capacities, from directing traffic to serving lattes in Dr. B’s, volunteers helped create a welcoming experience for every guest who came to one of the 12 Christmas Eve services. The goal of Volunteer Central was to give back to the volunteers who…
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