A Reminder: New Year, Same King

This Sunday, Park Community Church was honored to have Victor Rodriguez, Senior Pastor of La Villita Community Church here in Chicago give the last message of the year. Victor is a differencemaker in Chicago and leads a congregation in the “Little Village ” area of Chicago located around 26th street and Kedzie. Little Village is [...]

Chicago at Christmas: Looking for Something to Do?

Sunday, December 23rd It’s a Wonderful White Christmas It’s time to warm up those vocal cords and make sure your peepers are top of the line because it’s Chicago’s 24th Annual Christmas Sing-A-Long and Double Feature. White Christmas and It’s A Wonderful Life are the perfect Christmas-time movies to get in the mood for the [...]

Celina: State Champions!

In a hard fought battle, Celina high School won its eighth state championship. Charley Waldrep scored two touchdowns, including the game winner, as Celina defeated China Spring to win a record eighth state football title. Waldrep’s 3-yard run with 5:56 to play broke a 14-14 tie to give the Bobcats (16-0) the Class 3A Division [...]

Off to Dallas – Have a Great Christmas!

Each year we rotate the Christmas/Thanksgiving holidays and this year we spent Thanksgiving in the mountains of North Carolina with Sue’s parents.  Now we are headed out for Dallas (McKinney TX to be exact) to my parents and as a bonus, we get to see my nephews, Josh Lavey and Caleb Lavey, play for the Texas [...]

C.S. Lewis Extended into January!

Due to unprecedented demand, Provision Theater, headed up by Tim Gregory of Park, is extending performances of CS LEWIS ON STAGE into the new year. Bradley Armacost portrays legendary writer C.S. Lewis to critical and audience acclaim in the Royal George Theater Gallery Space (1641 N. Halsted) – now in an Open-Ended Run! If you [...]

Does it Require a Vote?

Did you know that yesterday, our Congress took time out of their budget and ideological battles to pass an extremely important bipartisan resolution yesterday — by a vote of 372-9 — which “recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions of the world“; proclaims that Christmas is “a holiday of great significance to [...]

Gingerbread Train Day

While I am still knocked pout by the flu, today was pencilled in as the day to build our annual gingerbread creation. So this year, it was a gingerbread train. This is one of our Christmas traditions that we love as we enjoy “Christmas in the City”. How do you think the kids did? (They [...]

Good Lessons for Dads

Got an email from one of the guys in our small group, Brian B., about this resource fromm which I have been receiving (but not always reading) emails from for a while — All Pro Dad. He sent this Top Ten list to me and it is a good reminder for all dads as we [...]

Children’s Christmas Play

All the kids from are hard at work on their Christmas play and today they spent the day building the manger in Al and Deanna Wilson’s garage. Look at these proud future construction managers! (Click on photo for bigger version).

Mat Barber Kennedy: A Gift to Park

For the last few years, I have had the privilege of hanging out and getting to know Mat Barber Kennedy, a gifted artist in the Park body, who has made a living as a watercolorist both in the US and across the pond in England.   Mat is an accomplished painter, a professor of arts, a [...]