Before It Was Cool
Starting new churches is in vogue right now. Have we started Destination Church Chicago because it’s the cool thing to do? What is our motivation? What drives us and holds us together? What helps us maintain our focus on the mission of God and not get sidetracked? What is our history? How are we connected, [...]
Celebration Midwest 2010
This year we are moving our Sunday gathering on June 6 to join with like-minded churches for a time of celebration and envisioning. One of our values at Destination is that we love starting and growing churches. We have a HUGE vision to plant reproducing churches in the top 100 cities of the USA. It [...]
Church Summer Internship 2010
In 2009 we started something very cool! A month long internship focused on evangelism. We gathered 8 young guys from around the US and hit the streets (in a positive way). We surveyed close to 600 people and had incredible opportunities to pray and share. Those who participated experienced one of the hardest 4 weeks [...]
Special Guest Speaker
On Sunday Dec 6th, Destination Church in Chicago will be proud to welcome John Lanferman as our guest speaker. John oversee’s our church planting efforts in the USA and travels extensively to initiate and strengthen churches. Dec 6th is a Sunday that you don’t want to accidentally set your alarm for PM rather than AM — don’t [...]
Our Vision For Students & Twenties
We plan to inspire college students and twenties to have a life vision for starting new churches. Doing ministry on campus has to ultimately be about the future. Chicago is an influential city that impacts the future of the region, country and world. Reaching students and giving them a passion for church planting is one [...]
Our Work in Zimbabwe
Destination Church is proud to be part of an expanding international church planting movement called Newfrontiers — currently over 600 churches worldwide. Our work in Africa presents great opportunities for collaboration, faith and generosity. Zimbabwe specifically has suffered through turmoil for many years. This ongoing struggle reached a climax at the end of 2008. The Newfrontiers [...]
MobiliseUSA 2010 Conference
Against the backdrop of church decline in our nation, with 3,750 churches closing each year and 80% of churches plateaued or decreasing in size, students and twenties are experiencing a renewed passion for Jesus and for church planting. With this in mind NewfrontiersUSA hosts the annual MobiliseUSA conference to gather students and twenties for worship, [...]
Celebration Midwest 2009
A few of us from Destination Church made the journey to Missouri this past weekend to gather together with other Newfrontiers churches in the Midwest region. We had great times of worship, teaching and prayer. I lead the ONEBLAZE youth meetings and also had some platform time in the main Saturday night session to share [...]
