Sunday Morning Services
Inspiring worship services on back-to-back Sundays with guest speakers at our West Chicago, Iglesia del Pueblo, and Tri-Village campuses. Join us online or on campus!
MissionsFest 2021
“You are the light of the world…Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” – Jesus (Matthew 5:14,16)
Join us MissionsFest Sundays October 17 and 24 as we celebrate stories of impact from missionaries and partners radiating light and hope in over 52 nations—and in our community!
Plus, add your gift to our “MissionsFest Giving Project” as we go the second mile with eight of our trusted, long-term partners who are serving, empowering, and discipling vulnerable children and youth in some of the neediest parts of the world—where Covid continues to take a major toll.
October 17 – October 24 // All Campuses
Meet and Greet
Hang around after the service on Sunday, October 17 and 24 to get to know our speakers and other missionary guests. Light refreshments will be served.
MissionsFest: Classified
A special event at TVC on Wednesday, October 20 featuring remarkable stories and prayer (stories we CAN’T share online) from our front-line global and local workers in highly sensitive contexts (including the Middle East and Asia).
Time Until Event
MissionsFest Giving Project
Giving goes October 12 through 24
More about the MissionsFest Giving Project
Whatever your means, your “over and above gift” will resource eight strategic projects by our global and local partners. Your generosity will provide survival food packs, badly needed textbooks and educational technology, vocational training for young adults with disabilities, sports equipment, housing for arriving Afghan refugees, and more.
Paired with Christian discipleship, these efforts are extending hope and opportunity in Kenya, Uganda, South Asia, the Middle East, Greece, the Dominican Republic, and right here in Chicagoland.
Our goal is $50,000 in one-time gifts.
Here's what your generosity can do around the world:
- $40 will provide textbooks in 5 subjects for a middle schooler at Fountain of Hope School in Uganda. The 1,300 students there must do self-study at home due to the pandemic and technology being nonexistent for most.
- Every dollar provides a day’s food for one of the 100 children at the Hope for Life Center led by our Kenyan partner, Josephine.
- Every dollar given provides vital technology for a school in South Asia that serves as an anchor to keep kids in school and elevate learning and opportunity by the most vulnerable in the community.
- $1,200 provides one month’s rent locally for a family of five as they rebuild their lives in Chicagoland after fleeing unlivable conditions in their former countries.
- $3,000 will provide an enriching library at one of seven schools in the Dominican Republic served by Kids Alive and our missionaries Vic and Leslie Trautwein.
Giving runs October 12 through 24
Be sure to designate your giving to MissionsFest Giving Project.
Featured Speakers
Tri-Village Church
October 17: Kent Muhling
Bartlett native Kent Muhling and wife Yuko are lifting up Christ in Sendai, Japan—ground zero of the 2011 tsunami— through outreach and church planting. Kent’s ministry includes preaching and leadership in a local church, and their goal as missionaries of our church is launching churches among young families in Japan, where Christianity is unknown to a large portion of the population. The Muhlings’ giftedness in building relationships and hospitality are assets to their effectiveness. Kent is an engineering graduate of the University of Illinois, a seminary graduate, and former naval flight officer. Kent and Yuko have three children.
October 24: Paco Amador
Paco Amador, pastor of New Life Little Village in Chicago, will bring MissionsFest closer to home when we focus on Local Outreach. Born in Mexico City, he trained at Moody Bible Institute and during that time, fell in love with the Little Village community. Prior to serving as pastor at New Life, Paco was a missionary in Spain, worked at Chicago’s Lawndale Christian Health Center, and taught elementary school for nine years. Pastor Paco and his wife Sylvia have seven children.