Adult Community (Plainfield)

Club House Theatre
21200 South Carillon Dr.
Plainfield, IL 60544

Service Times:
Sunday 9:30am

These Non-Denominational Services are for Carillon Residents Only

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Carillon Will Reproduce In Huntley, IL

Carillon

Saturday, 19 June 2010 06:12

We are excited to announce that Dr. Perry Martin, Sr., and his wife, Rebecca, are interning at COMMUNITY's Carillon campus in preparation of starting a new campus in the Del Webb/Huntley active adult community in October. After moving in, the Martins will begin a small group ministry and form a launch team to begin preparing for worship services in that community. Del Webb/Huntley is a 55+ active adult community of near 10,000 people in the NW suburbs of Chicago. We are excited for this opportunity.

If you have any contacts in Huntley whom you know would be interested in this ministry, please have them contact Earl Ferguson.

Please pray with us for the success of this project, that God will connect Perry and Becky with the right people in Huntley, that Del Webb will be open to giving them the space they need for celebration services and that they reach their financial goals.

Saturday Nights at Highpoint

Carillon

Friday, 18 June 2010 14:18

Here's good news for all "Empty Nesters and Active Adults" living in the Romeoville and Crest Hill areas. This Fall, a new worship experience will be offered at the Children Arts Center (CAC) at Highpoint Community. This worship experience will be designed with "empty nesters and active adults" in mind. It will feature a combination of traditional and contemporary music with a "softer" sound (much like we do now at Carillon). We are convinced that there are many active adults in this area who would like to have available to them what we have in the Carillon Clubhouse Theater each Sunday morning for Carillon residents and their friends.

For now, I will do the preaching and Pat will be the Arts Director. Eventually, we envision this as a campus that will have its own Campus Pastor and Arts Team. For now, we are going to need lots of help!! If you would like to join us in this wonderful mission, we are going to need musicians, vocalists, ushers, greeters, servers, tech and arts help and a first impressions (treat table) team. This is a chance of a lifetime to hpftwbtG! Will you join us on this mission? If so, let me hear from you.

SPREAD THE WORD...if you know someone in this area who is interested in a new, blended Community service, tell them about this new opportunity.

Thanks.....Pastor Earl earlferguson@communitychristian.org

Worship Services at Senior Star - Weber Place

Carillon

Friday, 18 June 2010 13:59

We have been invited by Community Relations Director, Allen Trueblood, and Activity Directors, Mary O'Conner and India Jenkins, to provide worship experiences for residents of Senior Star at Weber Place in Romeoville. We are currently conducting a service at 2pm on the first Wednesday of each month for the people living in the memory-care building, and a service at 3pm on the first & third Wednesdays for residents of the independent and assited living building. If you are interested in helping out with this ministry, let us know. These are lovely places which are just now beginning to fill up with wonderful people. Contact sarabillsthwing@communitychristian.org for more information.

3 Campuses in Chicago

Impact Updates

Sunday, 06 December 2009 20:46

IMPACT Chicago: One of our major IMPACT initiatives includes launching 3 more campuses in the city of Chicago along with our Pilsen Campus. Just 1 out of 10 people in the city of Chicago attend church regularly. Churches are actually closing at a rate of one per week in Chicago. The need to reach the 67% of people who have yet to find their way back to God and serve the 20% who live in poverty is tremendous. And we’re not the only ones who recognize the need in Chicago. This past week some of our staff gathered with other church leaders from all over the country to share our IMPACT Chicago vision. This gathering was actually hosted by another suburban church who wants to get behind this vision – Parkview Christian Church in Orland Park. These churches and church-planting organizations are planning to contribute several hundred thousand dollars to this project. It’s exciting to see how your courage and vision is encouraging others in a similar way. And so on that note, would you please join with me as we give to IMPACT and our Jesus Mission. Your gifts serve to insure the success of our efforts to reach the 67% of the world that is far from God and provide for the 20% of the world that live in poverty.

Giving and Secrecy

Carillon

Thursday, 22 October 2009 13:40

An email I sent in answer to a question about giving and secrecy: “….do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing”-Matthew 6:3.

I understand where you are coming from and agree at least in part. The reason for our Lord saying this about our alms giving and prayer is because the Pharisees, actually blew a horn and announced that they were throwing coins into a coffer for the poor and stood on the street-corners praying loudly and piously (probably irritatingly as well). It was these hypocritical displays of giving and praying that Jesus despised. But Luke boasts about what the church was giving in Acts and even calls attention to the fact that Barnabas sold a piece of ground and brought the money and laid it at the apostles feet (pretty public wouldn't you agree?). Acts 5 indicates such was done rather openly. The problem there was Ananias and Sapphira lying about what they were giving.

To not share the blessing that we receive from giving would just be wrong. Others need to be encouraged to do the same as you and I do and realize the same spiritual and material blessings that God grants us. We let people who have the gift of singing, sing and who have the gift of serving, serve. Why not recognize and let the people who have the gift of giving, give and in so doing encourage others to do likewise.

I know that there is a fine line between boasting of what we give and encouraging others by our example while giving God the glory. I pray that this will always be the case with us. I know I want that to be true for me. Your letting me know that you are a tither (this may sound strange) actually encourages me and tells me a lot about your heart, even though that was never in question in the first place. Thanks for your concern for truth. Let’s continue the journey together and always commit ourselves to being open to a new viewpoint. God bless you, my brother...

Marks of Discipleship

Carillon

Friday, 04 December 2009 15:51

Michale Foss, in POWER SURGE (Fortress 2000), uncovers what he call six "marks of discipleship:"
1. Daily Prayer
2. Weekly Worship
3. Regular Bible Reading
4. Service
5. Spiritual Friendships
6. Giving
     These six marks he says are "...simply habits of the sould that open us to the woinder and mystery of God's active presence in our lives. They keepl us focused; they fix our attention on the things of God." p. 106
     "God's grace meets the desire of the heart through the disciplines that express that desire." p. 110
     How serious are YOU about the call to be a disciple of Christ?

Carillon Makes an IMPACT

Impact Updates

Friday, 04 December 2009 16:17

Our congregation at Carillon has pledged $348,418 over the next two years toward IMPACT. This comes very close to assuring that we will be able to meet all of our campus goals for the next two years. Along with our other nine campuses, the church plans to start at least 3 new campuses in the next year and in addition will expand our effort at helping under-resourced schools in Joliet and Aurora, make significant contribution to Front-line Ministries in the Philippines and our work in Uganda, Africa. I am very proud to be associated with such a generous group of people. If you have not yet made a pledge to The Jesus Mission through IMPACT it is not too late. God bless you for caring!

The Biblical Model for the Church

Carillon

Friday, 04 December 2009 16:12

Michael Foss, in the book POWER SURGE, challenges our thinking about the church. He sees the New Testament model for the church being what he calls "The Discipleship Model" rather than the traditional "Membership Model." He says that in the membership model, the pastor or minister functions as the caregiver. He is expected to be present for parishoners in their times of need and to bring to them the resources of the church. He is also to be the one to who prays, reads scripture and is "the point at which heaven touches earth."
In the discipleship model, the pastor may still do many of these things, but for a different reason. He is intent on modeling the intersecting of life with the Spirit and in so doing mentors the people in the art of living in the Spirit. The aim is to practice the art of spiritual care in such a way as to help parishioners use their spiritual resources to minister to others. Foss says that in this system "pastors become spiritual catalysts through whom the Holy Spirit encourages, equips, directs, and strengthens the faith of those they serve.

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