Stories
Our stories shape us and help others see a living and loving God! Check out our stories and tell us yours!
It was a misdirected Frisbee that first brought Steve and Michelle together. Each was on a spring-break vacation in South Carolina—he from Illinois and she from Wisconsin.
No one could have guessed that their first meeting on that beach—triggered when a flying disc tossed by Michelle’s sister hit Steve in the head—would blossom into love and marriage.
Thanks to your faithful giving, our church is extending hope to hundreds of vulnerable children every day—many of them orphaned—in Central America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. As a church family, we are also investing in the lives of children in the communities around us, including many of us who have taken vulnerable children into our homes.
For nearly two decades, families from Wheaton Bible Church have traveled to Ontario, Canada, to work with a community of First Nations people living on Birch Island. Over these eighteen years, deep connections have been forged as many WBC families and individuals returned to the community summer after summer.
There's one morning out of the whole year that Dawn anticipates like no other.
As a high school student, Sue knew enough about God to know that He was good, and that her life—as she was living it—was not.
On Tuesday evenings Don Majeska goes to the West Chicago Public Library. Heading upstairs to his regular spot, he settles in with books, lesson plans, and papers—waiting for his friend to meet him.
In the long history of Major League Baseball, few personalities have been more of a lightning rod than Jimmy Piersall. His achievements on the field alone would have earned him a place in baseball history, but what people remember even more than his outstanding fielding and batting stats are the antics, arguments, and outbursts that marked his long career.
Eight years ago, when Wheaton Bible Church began its Puente del Pueblo outreach to serve the residents of the Timber Lake Apartments, they were excited to launch an after-school program offering academic enrichment to children in their elementary years.
I grew up in Palatine, Illinois, as the youngest of four girls. Our family attended church, but what I heard there didn't make much difference in my life. I remember being asked at my confirmation class if I was a Christian. I said yes, because I thought that was the right answer, but I didn't really know what that meant.
In the summer of 2009, when Christopher and Aimée met “by chance” in a Naperville parking lot, neither had any clue about what the next seven years would bring. Chris was a guy with a past—and a dangerous present. And Aimée was a young woman with a pattern of dating bad boys, and she had the scars to show for it.
Bernadette was on a mission: to find a place—a church—where her two children could receive the religious education she knew they needed.
On Sunday, February 19, 2017, Pastor Kyle Reschke interviews Chris Rogers to hear how he is changing his community and what took place inside him to be willing to serve in such a unique way.
Rashad and Melissa agree that their marriage started in a strong place, rating their early years at “a 7 or an 8.” But less than ten years later, the once-close couple had hit a rough patch that sometimes made them feel like strangers.
In the weeks and month following her divorce, Jeannie faced some of the most difficult days of her life. Read how she overcame them.
Serving has been a part of Deb Lew’s life for as long as she can remember. Read how she makes serving fun.