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Who We Serve
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The Willow Creek Association was founded in 1992, and works to link like-minded, action-oriented churches with each other and with strategic vision, training, and resources. We are driven by a calling to serve Christ-following leaders as they build biblically functioning churches—authentic, Acts 2 communities of faith that reach increasing numbers of lost people and grow them into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. Our goal is to seek out and share God-given breakthroughs with widespread potential from churches around the world, supporting a rapid diffusion of innovation through the local church for the sake of Christ and His Kingdom. The WCA is a not-for-profit ministry, with more than 12,000 Member Churches from 90 denominations and 45 countries. These churches, and others we serve, represent a wide variety of sizes, denominations, and backgrounds, and are ministering in literally every corner of the world.
While pursuing their own unique, God-given vision for ministry in their own communities, Member Churches confirm a shared commitment to Christ and a passion for reaching those who are not yet part of His family.
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Bill Hybels, Chairman of the Board
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right. The local church has been entrusted with carrying the life-changing message of Jesus Christ, and it’s the only hope I see for this hurting and broken world. There’s nothing else like it.
Not only does the local church help lost people come to faith, it helps lonely, broken-hearted people cope with the brutality of evil in this world. When the local church is working right, people of faith help bear the burden of those who have nowhere else to turn. Lost people get found, lonely people find community, the bereaved find comfort, the committed grow deeper and stronger in their faith. In Acts 2:43 it says that sometimes people in the first church just stood in awe. Throughout the past 30 years, I have had that experience myself over and over.
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Jim Mellado, President
The Willow Creek Association was founded in 1992 in response to a fresh movement of God’s Spirit in the work of the local church. At that time, many churches—including Willow Creek Community Church—were sensing a renewed call to build biblically functioning communities that shared the Gospel with relevance, in ways that those still outside the church could understand.
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