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In the mid-1970s, a group of high schoolers and their former youth pastor started a church in a movie theater and named it ...

SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- The elders of the Willow Creek Community Church will step down following the launch of an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct were leveled against the ...

Bill Hybels resigns from Willow Creek church following allegations of misconduct. Cultivating the connection between the soil and the soul. Italian-American church in Brooklyn gets new lease on life.

SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Church officials have launched an independent investigation after a pastor was accused of sexual misconduct at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington.

SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (RNS) — David Dummitt, who became pastor of Willow Creek Church at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Sunday (March 23) that he is stepping down as leader of the ...

During the pandemic, just a couple years after Bill Hybels’s resignation, attendance at the Chicago-area megachurch fell by half. Willow Creek Community Church, one of the largest and most highly ...

The departures of Bill Hybels and James MacDonald leave churches waiting for new leadership and hoping to rebuild trust. It’s been 22 months since Bill Hybels resigned from Willow Creek Community ...

Willow Creek Community Church, the influential evangelical megachurch based in South Barrington, has named a new senior pastor. David Dummitt, the founding and lead pastor at a community church ...