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JOIN US EASTER SUNDAY
All are welcome to attend our 10:30 worship service on this coming Easter Sunday where we offer both an in-person and hybrid experience.
Please enter the sanctuary via the Chicago Avenue front doors. You can live stream our service at this link.
CALENDAR
Good Friday Service 7pm Second Baptist Church
1717 Benson Ave Evanston
Easter Sunday Service 1030am
Trumpet, full choir, joyous sounds with a surprise at the end of the service.
Our Music Director, Diana Schmück, will be playing Charles-Marie Widor's Toccata from Symphony for Organ No. 5.
Then an Easter egg hunt will follow in the courtyard weather permitting.
LSC Hosts Alliance of Baptists Annual Gathering April 16-19
Rev. Woolf To Receive Alumni Honors Award from Harvard Divinity
In early May, Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf will receive the Peter J. Gomes Alumni Honors Award from the Alumni/Alumnae Council of Harvard Divinity School. The award recognizes community members whose life, work, and service amplify the mission and vision of Harvard Divinity School. Below is the press release:
"Rev. Michael Woolf is a Baptist minister, scholar, and community organizer serving in the Chicago area. His work focuses on interfaith solidarity, immigration justice, and reparations. He is co-author, with his spouse Rev. Anna Piela, of Confronting Islamophobia in the Church. Known for his public witness and pastoral leadership, he works at the intersection of faith, justice, and anti-authoritarianism. Woolf is the senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston and the co-founder of Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland. HDS recognizes Rev. Michael Woolf, MDIV '14, ThD '21, as a Gomes honoree for embodying a theology that speaks boldly, listens deeply, and calls us toward justice rooted in sacred traditions
Rev. Michael Woolf
God Isn't a Republican or a Democrat; God Is an Immigrant
If you want to understand who God is, then I think one of the foundational themes is the experience of migration. In election season, we sometime ask whether God is a Democrat or a Republican, but the truth is more obvious: God is an immigrant.
(Continued at Sojourner's Magazine)