Questions About God
August 12, 2009 by Steve
Filed under Breaking News, Chicago, Inside Park, Methods & Strategies
This is the kind of questions that Park Community Church answers head on in their teaching and classes. I love it! Alpha Promo Fix from Jason Widney on Vimeo.
Worship Top 25
April 14, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Culture and Faith, Inside Park, Methods & Strategies, Music That Moves, Powerful Passages, The City, The Cultural Conversation, Urban Church
As we sit each week at Park, and have worship times with Joseph Tenney and his team, I began to wonder what are the main worship songs that are played? So I did some research on the CCLI site and thought I would list out the top 25 played worship songs in churches around the [...]
Crosby Update and Work Days
March 31, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Adaptive Reuse, Breaking News, Church Construction, Inside Park, Missional, The City, The Cultural Conversation
Finally — after many delays, we are GOING TO PULL AUDIO-VIDEO wire this Saturday (woo Hoo!) as we gear up each weekend in April to get all of our audio/video stuf installed. It is starting to get real exciting! Crosby Work Days Crosby Work Days are back in full swing as we are counting down [...]
The Joy of Abby-Jill
March 16, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Church, Family, Inside Park, Leader Zone
This weekend I sat with hundreds of others (really an old-timers Park alumni meeting, it seemed like) and celebrated the life of Abby-Jill Marie Brauhn, a friend and former staff-member at Park Community Church, who lost her battle with cancer this week. Rich Case did an excellent job in his message and Rich Johnson was [...]
In Memory of Abby-Jill — We Will Miss You
March 13, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Culture and Faith, DifferenceMakers, Family, Inside Park, Missional, Urban Church
This week, Park Community Church suffered a great loss, when one of its former staff, Abby-Jill Brauhn , lost her fight with cancer and went to be with the Lord on Tuesday morning, surrounded by her family in Wisconsin. Abby-Jill was a Godly woman who loved the Lord and loved people. She made a huge [...]
Park Community Church on Comcast
March 4, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Breaking News, Chicago, Culture and Faith, Inside Park, The Arts in the City, The City, The Cultural Conversation
Check out FAITH TODAY’s preview of a 10 minutes piece on Park Community Church its growing impact on the city that is playing on Comcast On Demand.
Join us for TRANSFORMED
January 10, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Church, Inside Park, Sunday Services, Urban Church
This weekend we kick off a new series at Park called TRANSFORMED, that explores one of the most important books of the Bible for believers, the book of Romans. Through our study of the book of Romans, we’ll be answering some difficult questions and dealing with issues that are important to our Christian faith. Romans [...]
Vision Sunday
January 9, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Church, Inside Park, Methods & Strategies, Missional, Sunday Services
Wow –what a great vision for a city center church! On Sunday, Jackson Crum, lead pastor at our church, Park Community Church, gave an incredible message of what God has called us to and where Park is going as it marshalls its resources and people to effect change and renewal in the city of Chicago. [...]
A Reminder: New Year, Same King
December 31, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Church, DifferenceMakers, Inside Park, Missional, Sunday Services, The City, Urban Church
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 [...]
Christmas at Park!
November 30, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Inside Park, Missional
Wow — can you believe its Christmas time and 2007 is drawing to a close? Seems like just yesterday we were going to the Old Town Art Fair……. It has been quite a year around here with so many folks coming stepping across the line of faith and more than 1,000 people now in small [...]
Reminder Time: God’s Continuing Faithfulness
August 26, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Church Construction, Inside Park, Powerful Passages, The City, Urban Church
Wow! I am continually reminded that God has a plan for the redemption of Chicago and Park is going to be a part of that. As we have moved through this summer, there has been a lot of uncertainty about where we would have our offices come September and where we would hold our services. [...]
Check out our First YouTube Video: Baptism 2007
July 26, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Church, DifferenceMakers, Inside Park, Missional, Sunday Services
Park is now officially a YouTube broadcaster! Check out the musical slideshow of the awesome baptisms of 71 people on the beaches of Lake Michigan in the shadow the the awesome Chicago skyline from Sunday, July 22nd.
Baptism Sunday — What a Day!
July 22, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Inside Park, Missional
Each year, on the third Sunday in July, we gather at 7 am at North Avenue beach in Chicago to hold our annual baptism service. This year, there were 71 people who were baptized in Lake Michigan in front of their friends, family and the Park Community Church family. It is so cool to have [...]
Missional Living as Leaders
May 12, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Church, Inside Park, Leader Zone, Methods & Strategies, Missional
Last night, we gathered 150 of our leaders and celebrated the incredible work that God is doing in and through Park Community Church. One of the highlights was the message given by our Lead Pastor, Jackson Crum, on the need for our leaders to live missionally in the city. Have a listen here.
Leader Zone Tonight
May 10, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Chicago, Inside Park, Leader Zone, Methods & Strategies, The City, Urban Church
Tonight, we gather our 200 leaders at the Kitsch’n Restaurant by our new warehouse building (restaurant is at 800 N Larrabee St at 6:30 p.m.) and get a chance to interact, to inspire, to spend time together and plan for the summer. In 2007, we are striving to be more intentional about growing and developing [...]
What are YOU Expecting this Easter?
March 16, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Church, Inside Park, The City
We are getting ready for a Big Easter in the city as we do a three part series on Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter on “What Are YOU Expecting?” where we will explore expectations: what people expected of Jesus, what God expected of Him and why Jesus came, died and rose from the dead. [...]
Park’s 1st Leader Zone Meeting a Success!
February 18, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Church, Family, Inside Park, Leader Zone, Volunteers
In 2007, we are striving to be more intentional about growing and developing our leadership community at Park Community Church. One of the ways we are going to invest in our leaders is through quarterly meetings, where we will bring the entire leadership community together for a dinner, here about what God is doing through [...]
Check out our Park WebCam!
February 4, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Church, Church Construction, Inside Park, The City
As we progress on the renovation of Park Community Church‘s warehouse into a ministry center at 1001 N Crosby, we now have the ability to see it happen live and in color with our ParkCAM, courtesy of Michael and Melissa Howard, who have graciously allowed us to install a webcam on their balcony. You can [...]

