Community-wide Memorial Service at CLC

We'll announce this in our weekend services, but I wanted to get the word out as widely as possible that CLC will host a community prayer service in honor of the victims of last weekend's tragedy at Brookside Marketplace on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3:00pm.

The Tinley Park Ministerial Association and our mayor's office are planning the service, and we're grateful to be able to host the event. I view this as an opportunity for CLC to 'step up' and serve our community during a time of grief and much fear. I urge our church family to help show our support for the community by attending and serving in any way possible.

I truly regret that my wife and I will be in the Philippines that day, but I'm also thankful for the leadership initiative of our Campus Pastors, Doug & Shanna Neal, who are spearheading this service. Your cooperation with them will insure that we can honor God and bless our community.

The verse I've been praying for our Mayor and Police force and even the victim's families for the past several days is Deut. 33:25 - that they not be overwhelmed by this tragedy and all the challenges that it has brought, but that they be blessed with strength equal to the challenges of the day. I hope you'll join me in that prayer as well.