We have good news for you! We are a church made up of ordinary people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Some of us never used to be interested in God or the Bible or anything that even resembled religion. Maybe you feel that way yourself. But each of us had a moment in life when everything changed.

We learned that God speaks to us in the Bible. Even better, we have found a personal link with the living God through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He has met our spiritual need for this life and the next – and the good news is that he can meet yours, too.

Have you ever driven past the old Joliet Prison and wondered what it was like to be on the inside of those massive stone walls? I recently learned that the walls were actually built by the first inmates, who dug the limestone chunks out of a nearby quarry. It seems so ironic that men would toil away to build their own prison, working hard to form what would ultimately become a barrier between themselves and everything they may have really wanted.