Community Christian Church

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We got back from our family vacation last week which included a trip to Minneapolis for a college visit, several relaxing days in Door County, Wisconsin and then a couple fun days at a water park in Wisconsin Dells. The...

The second session of the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit featured best-selling author Jim Collins. Both Built to Last and Good to Great have been important books in the leadership and management genre. They have introduced language like: "Level 5...

In the opening session of the 2010 Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit, Bill Hybels went back to the basics and asked: "What do leaders do?" "What are the fundamentals of leadership?" Rather than delve into new leadership territory, Hybels decided...

Kids Hope is a phenomenal mentoring program that we started doing at Brady Elementary School last year. We'll continue and expand the program there this year, as well as start one in Joliet. The Naperville Sun ran a nice article...

There are 15 of us meeting every Friday morning this summer for fun, relationship building and leadership development. These are all women who are part of our Parent Mentor program during the school year who agreed to commit to meeting...

Here is our latest series video to introduce a fun series called C Cruise on Conflict, Communication and Commitment with our characters BP and Master E. I laugh every time I watch it...

by: Jon Ferguson At Community, we just finished a Big Idea series titled, “Our Father: 66 Words You Thought You Knew.” It was an intriguing walk through one of the most well-known and most often quoted sections in the Bible....

by Tammy Melchien So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” -2 Corinthians 5:20 NLT In just two short months I will be moving into...

A good friend recently shared this video with me about how the best leaders inspire people to action. Definitely worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

Over the past few weeks, I've learned about about a few different models for working in under-resourced communities. The one that keeps rising to the surface is The Harlem Children's Zone. Obviously the size and scope of what they do...

My son Aidan just turned six. He has a favorite motorcycle that you rev up the engine and make it go fast by repeatedly running the wheels against the ground and then releasing it to go lightening speed. Aidan decided...

It's hard for me to believe that last month we launched our 10th Kids' City at our new Aurora North Campus! What an awesome morning it was. So many new faces and those precious children who were nervous and excited...

Thought this would be a good post to follow the last one . . .I read this today in Donald Miller's new book, "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" (chapter 26) It's like this when you live a story:...

Here is a recent video we made for the adult service here at COMMUNITY from a series about Finding Your Way Back To God. It was so wonderful to have these kids tell their stories and for adults to hear...

This morning I had a sentimental exprience at church, at my home campus in downtown Naperville. First of all, most all of my small group that we birthed last year was in attendance, which is always awesome. Jon Ferguson delivered...