104 baptized at Three Oaks Recreation Area in Crystal Lake on September 8, 2013. There was a lot of energy around the Baptisms, music, Culver’s ice cream, picnics, kids playing in the small water park or swimming in the lake, and sand volleyball, and people joined in community and celebration. September 14/15 Willow Crystal Lake celebrated…
Read MoreOn Friday, August 2nd Willow Crystal Lake hosted Lifetree Café International Film Festival. The film fest showed 7 short films of people doing life and doing good. There was over 180 people in attendance and close to 50 first time guests to Willow Crystal Lake. All of the proceeds for the evening supported the PADS…
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On May 18, Willow Crystal Lake held it’s first Compassion and Justice Expo. The C&J Expo helped our congregation be motivated and ignited to have a passion to engage the most pressing issues of the day in a way that has local and global impact? The Compassion & Justice Expo occurred from 8 a.m.-12 p.m.this…
Read MoreOn Sunday, October 28, the Crystal Lake and Huntley campuses held their annual Trunk-or-Treat events. Details for each of the campuses are below:
Read MoreOn Sunday, October 28, the Crystal Lake and Huntley campuses held their annual Trunk-or-Treat events. Details for each of the campuses are below:
Read MoreRight now, five of Willow’s campuses are hosting a total of 400 participants in The Alpha Course.* The courses are all between weeks 3-4 of the curriculum. In a few weeks, the participants from all campuses will gather in one place for the Alpha weekend retreat. The weekend retreat is a planned weekend away where participants…
Read MoreThrough an extraordinary amount of collaboration between the Crystal Lake and South Barrington campuses, parents were able to use iPads to check their kids into Promiseland at Willow Crystal Lake starting September 22/23. The whole project had been a dream for a long time until mid-summer when Scott Conger, a member of South Barrington’s Web…
Read MoreWe are called to fight poverty and injustice to help transform our community. The ability to fight injustice starts with awareness. Did you know Chicago land has a growing human trafficking and labor slavery trade? CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are…
Read MoreThroughout the month of March, Willow Crystal Lake has been running a Diaper Drive for a local partner of their Compassion & Justice ministry, Safe Families. The generosity of the congregation was astounding—over 5,000 diapers were collected! One fantastic story came out of the generosity: A woman in the CL congregation took the challenge to…
Read MoreWe are called to fight poverty and injustice to help transform our community. The ability to fight injustice starts with awareness. Did you know Chicago land has a growing human trafficking and labor slavery trade? CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are…
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