TCP Weekly → Jun 13
Healthy Calling with Faith & Work Chicago • C.S. Lewis Summer Academy • Gen Z Revival? • Economic Partnership in Gary
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Local Events
Vocation, Faith, and Flourishing
Work Matters, C.S. Lewis Institute, Renew Chicago, and Faith & Work Chicago are hosting Healthy Calling: A Conversation on Vocation, Faith, and Flourishing with Dr. Arianna Molloy on Thursday, June 25, 7-8:30 PM at Park Near North. This fireside conversation will help participants think more deeply about vocation, identity, spiritual rhythms, and the gospel’s role in shaping how and why we work. Learn more here.
C.S. Lewis Summer Academy
Join the C.S. Lewis Institute this July for a transformative week of worship, teaching, conversation, and fellowship centered on the person of Jesus Christ. Hosted at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL. Whether you are a new disciple of Jesus or you have walked with Christ for decades, the Summer Academy offers a space to be encouraged, equipped, and challenged. Registration closes Jun 19, so register today. Info here.
Looking Ahead
Mark your calendars for these upcoming events later this year.
Aug 22 Legacy Conference Chicago
Sep 13 El Grito 6K with New Life Centers
Oct 14-16 TENx10 Summit 2026
Oct 19-21 Pastor Theologians Conference
Nov 10-12 Exponential Central Conference
Jan 27-29 Charles Simeon Workshop
Local Resources
UIC 2026 Choir
Enjoy a special performance from the UIC 2026 Children’s Choir as they helped By The Hand Club For Kids celebrate 25 years of impactful ministry.
Podcast Interview with Larry Perez
How do you trust God when He watched your heart break? Nobody expects to lose a wife and a child before they turn 30. There's no grief map or sermon that makes accounts for that. Hear Brian Dye and Larry Perez discuss on the latest episode of the Legacy Disciple podcast. If you've been wrestling with grief. If you've been searching for God's goodness in a season that just won't let up, this one was made for you.
TCP Job Board
Looking for your next role, or trying to fill one? TCP hosts a local job board on our website with open positions at churches and nonprofits, plus pastoral residencies and internships. Visit our site to see the full list and submit your own openings. Here are a few of the latest!
Pastoral Residency at Park Community Church
Executive Director at The Hope Center
Student Pastor at Avenue Christian Church
Lead Pastor at Boulevard Presbyterian
Multiple Open Positions at Soul City Church
Weekly Spotlights
Article from Ray Chang on Gen Z Revival
“The recent retraction of a British Bible Society report on a supposed “quiet revival” among young adults felt like a gut punch. While some had long been skeptical of the data, others had understandably been thrilled over the report’s claim that church attendance among 18- to 24-year-olds in England and Wales had quadrupled between 2018 and 2024, from 4 percent to 16 percent. Before the retraction, those findings traveled everywhere: to Parliament, to conferences, to headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. A narrative took hold: Young people were returning to church.
When the data firm YouGov admitted the numbers were flawed, and the report was pulled, the ensuing disappointment was palpable. The revival in the UK was not real. Just as the hopeful narrative had spread, so did a resurgence of the familiar discouraging story of endless institutional decline.
For the church in the United States, we want to offer a more complicated account, neither the thrill of the quiet revival nor the dismay of its debunking.”
Continuing reading The Revival That Wasn’t—and the One That May Be by Josh Packard and Raymond Chang on Christianity Today, where they challenge a growing narrative of a broad “quiet revival” among Gen Z.
Economic Partnership in Gary, IN
Pastor Dexter Harris sits down with fellow local business owners to talk about the power of collaboration over competition. Dexter and his wife own Paige and Charlie’s, alongside Deborah McMiller, owner of D&K Soul Food, and Artie King, owner of Kings Wings and Things. Their takeaway: when a dollar stays on Broadway, that’s wealth staying in Gary. Listen in here.
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