If you are interested in a group starting this week contact the people below to get more information and get involved.
MENS
Jack Gallaway - Fridays, 6:45am-8:15am - Puzzle Dust Cafe - East Dundee
jack.simply@gmail.com
Dominic Bialecki - Thursdays, 6:30-8pm - East Dundee
dominic.bialecki@yahoo.com
WOMENS
Saray Rodiguez-Noverini - Sat. 10am-11:30
saray2000@yahoo.com
COUPLES
Daryl and Jessica Palmer - Fridays - 7-9pm - West Dundee
jjacksonpalmer@polymedco.com
Bill & Jane Englund - "Newly Marrieds" - Fridays 7-9pm - West Dundee
englundb@sbcglobal.net
Silva & Arturo Escobar - Algonquin - Thursdays 7-9pm
covenantescobars@yahoo.com
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Groups for a Season - G4S
If you have been thinking about a being involved with a small group, now is a great time to check out a "Group for a Season" (G4S).
Groups for a Season, an 8-to-12 week series of small group studies, provides an easy entry point into groups for people who share a common interest or affinity. Groups for a Season will run several cycles per year, with the first cycle beginning the week of February 15. During this first cycle, Men’s, Women’s, and Couples groups will be offered within each high school area.
To get more info and sign up to attend one visit: http://www.willowcreek.org/MiniSite/story.asp?storyid=15
Groups for a Season, an 8-to-12 week series of small group studies, provides an easy entry point into groups for people who share a common interest or affinity. Groups for a Season will run several cycles per year, with the first cycle beginning the week of February 15. During this first cycle, Men’s, Women’s, and Couples groups will be offered within each high school area.
To get more info and sign up to attend one visit: http://www.willowcreek.org/MiniSite/story.asp?storyid=15
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Congrats - New Members
Congrats to our newest Willow Members... I am happy to say I have met all of them and am delighted they live in our area!
Dwight Luecht - Carpentersville
Barb Luecht - Carpentersville
Ed Berlin - Algonquin
Kelley Berlin - Algonquin
Mary Comeaux - Algonquin
Derek Mobley - Algonquin
Jeff Stupar - West Dundee
Dwight Luecht - Carpentersville
Barb Luecht - Carpentersville
Ed Berlin - Algonquin
Kelley Berlin - Algonquin
Mary Comeaux - Algonquin
Derek Mobley - Algonquin
Jeff Stupar - West Dundee
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Weekend Attendance for Kate Gosselin Interview
Wow, what a packed weekend. We had my parent attend and my neighbors. Kate had a very compelling story. My mother bought her book "Mulitple Blessings" after the service and had it completely read by the time she return home to the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
We had an all time campus attendence record at: 31758
It was very exciting!
We had an all time campus attendence record at: 31758
It was very exciting!
The Power of Community - Looking for God
I was having lunch with my neighborhood friend Doug yesterday and he asked if I wanted to go for a jog this morning with our friend Chris. We tend to go on a Tues, Thurs, or Sunday in the morning. We had back-slidden for a couple, make a that a few weeks, so I figured this was a perfect time to jump back on the horse, since the weather had been looking up lately, like 20 degrees (isn't that sick?). I didn't think to check the weather for the next morning.
So I wake up early this morning, Doug likes to run really early (like in the dark early) and I put on my stuff and step outside and think, WOW I wonder what the temperature is? If I would have been more awake I probably would have called off the whole thing. But I get in my car to meet at the jogging rendezvous point and my car temp says 1 degree... I start flicking the readout, thinking surely that can't be right? Ohhhh but it is right and I am freezing in the car! I start thinking maybe Doug and Chris bailed and I will just drive home. As I get closer and closer to the meeting point, I don't see them and I think, okay good, then just as I think about turning around, I see a couple of reflective strips in the dark and they are moving! Oh crud... Doug and Chris are there, now I have to go through with it. If they are going to do it there is no reason I can't do it. Besides, I am from Northern Wisconsin and I used to picnic in this weather, I like ice-fishing and polar bear clubs (or whatever else I need to tell myself).
We start running and I will be 100% honest with you, it was cold! My feet never got warm, my hands never got warm, the rest of me never got warm. I remember Doug saying, "is anyone else's eyeballs freezing?" But it wasn't as bad as I thought. In fact, as I was running I was cold but not freezing. We had a great time talking about what was going on in life, gave thanks for Chris' new job, and both Doug and Chris were taking their sons to Willow's boy's night out event in a couple weeks. So I starting looking on the bright side of things.
1. I set a record for my coldest jog
2. I got my exercise done and got the day started early
3. I did something I wouldn't have normaly done alone
4. I got to spend some time with a couple great guys
5. I didn't need a shower
Then at the end our jog something inspiring and beautiful happend. We saw a car turn toward us and in the headlights we say something like snow falling, only it wasn't snow, it was different. The car passed and I couldn't see it anymore. We finish our jog, I drive home and the sun just starts peeking up. I go to my son's room to wake him up, and I raise the curtain and see a beautiful sun rise and in the clean, crystal clear skies I see the something falling and glistening all around. The sun was reflecting off of billions of little, tiny ice crystals that were floating and falling from the sky. It looked like diamonds falling from the sky, My daughter said it looked like "fairy dust." It was amazingly beautiful and went on for 30 or 40 minutes.
It was cold but it was good - in adverse circumstances look for God's beauty and goodness because it is there.
So I wake up early this morning, Doug likes to run really early (like in the dark early) and I put on my stuff and step outside and think, WOW I wonder what the temperature is? If I would have been more awake I probably would have called off the whole thing. But I get in my car to meet at the jogging rendezvous point and my car temp says 1 degree... I start flicking the readout, thinking surely that can't be right? Ohhhh but it is right and I am freezing in the car! I start thinking maybe Doug and Chris bailed and I will just drive home. As I get closer and closer to the meeting point, I don't see them and I think, okay good, then just as I think about turning around, I see a couple of reflective strips in the dark and they are moving! Oh crud... Doug and Chris are there, now I have to go through with it. If they are going to do it there is no reason I can't do it. Besides, I am from Northern Wisconsin and I used to picnic in this weather, I like ice-fishing and polar bear clubs (or whatever else I need to tell myself).
We start running and I will be 100% honest with you, it was cold! My feet never got warm, my hands never got warm, the rest of me never got warm. I remember Doug saying, "is anyone else's eyeballs freezing?" But it wasn't as bad as I thought. In fact, as I was running I was cold but not freezing. We had a great time talking about what was going on in life, gave thanks for Chris' new job, and both Doug and Chris were taking their sons to Willow's boy's night out event in a couple weeks. So I starting looking on the bright side of things.
1. I set a record for my coldest jog
2. I got my exercise done and got the day started early
3. I did something I wouldn't have normaly done alone
4. I got to spend some time with a couple great guys
5. I didn't need a shower
Then at the end our jog something inspiring and beautiful happend. We saw a car turn toward us and in the headlights we say something like snow falling, only it wasn't snow, it was different. The car passed and I couldn't see it anymore. We finish our jog, I drive home and the sun just starts peeking up. I go to my son's room to wake him up, and I raise the curtain and see a beautiful sun rise and in the clean, crystal clear skies I see the something falling and glistening all around. The sun was reflecting off of billions of little, tiny ice crystals that were floating and falling from the sky. It looked like diamonds falling from the sky, My daughter said it looked like "fairy dust." It was amazingly beautiful and went on for 30 or 40 minutes.
It was cold but it was good - in adverse circumstances look for God's beauty and goodness because it is there.
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