ABC-7 Special: The Mega Church Movement

I don't know if you caught it or not - but Chicago ABC-7 did a special news segment during the 10:00 news: The Mega Church Movement. Cheryl Burton described how the number of megachurches (2,000+ in attendance) has doubled in the last decade to number over 12,000. The featured churches were WillowCreek Community Church(http://www.willowcreek.org/), Salem Baptist Church of Christ (http://www.sbcoc.org/) and First Baptist of Hammond (http://www.baptist-city.com/first_baptist.htm). I'm supposed to be interviewed on WGN radio tomorrow around 2:30 to talk about this report and I suspect how CCC is a multi-site mega church. If you want to read the report or watch from the video ABC-7 report, check it out: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=special_coverage&id=3597263

Chicago Magazine comes to Naperville and CCC!

A reporter from Chicago Magazine was doing a story on life in Naperville and was drawn by this "yellow box" that he kept passing by on Ogden Avenue. So, he did a little homework on CCC and what we were up to and decided to interview us for an upcoming February issue. When he asked me what I thought was unique about Naperville here are a few things that came to mind:
1. It's the only suburb of Chicago that when people say, "I'm going downtown", they mean downtown Naperville and not Chicago.
2. Mayor Pradel - he is the town mascot. If you don't know George Pradel, you need to...he is amazing.
3. According to a Chicago Tribune report Naperville had the fewest people living under the poverty line of any city over 50,000 people in the U.S. That article said that Naperville had only one homeless person and that was because they refused to be taken in. There are no "bad" sections of town.
4. While it is a great place to raise a family...it is also not representative of the rest of the world. Napervillians need a opportunities to serve others and not just be served. And our kids desperately need it for them to be all that God meant for them to be.
5. It has the opportunity to be the epicenter of generosity. God has blessed this community with so much affluence and influence...this community could change the world!!
That's enough...check out their website in February (http://www.chicagomag.com/ME2/Default.asp) to we will see if he puts any of it in the article