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Christ Community Church is a congregation in Lemont, Illinois, in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, with a mission to guide our neighbors to a hope-filled future.
After several years of significant growth, we're stepping into a season of momentum. We're launching a community thrift center designed to be a missional catalyst, seeding new ministries and nonprofits that serve the surrounding community. Alongside that, we've developed a growth track built to move people beyond Sunday and into their neighborhoods throughout the week, gathering, growing, and going to guide more of our neighbors to a hope-filled future.
We're evangelical and intergenerational, shaped by the conviction that each generation matters and that the church is better when every age is in it together. In a world quick to divide, we're choosing to be peacemakers, creating space for people who see things differently so we can seek Christ together.
Our people come from Homer Glen, Lemont, Lockport, Palos, and the fifteen or so towns around us, and we love the crossroads we sit at. Four different communities meet here, each with its own feel, and between them, you get historic downtowns with weekend festivals and live music, 15,000 acres of forest preserve with trails for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding, and orchards and pumpkin farms in the fall. But more than any of that, it's the kind of place where your neighbors wave when you pull in the driveway, where the kids ride bikes until the streetlights come on, and where Friday night football is still a thing. People stay here. They raise their families here. They know their barista and their mechanic by name. It's not flashy. It's home, and it's a really good one.
And then there's Chicago, which we happen to think is the greatest city in the world. Being only forty-five minutes from the Loop puts Wrigley, Soldier Field, the United Center, the Art Institute, the lakefront, Michigan Ave, and some of the best coffee shops and restaurants in the world within easy reach. Beyond Chicago, you're within two hours of the Wisconsin border, the Indiana Dunes, or a lake town in southwest Michigan. You get both the city and the suburbs, and we've found that's a pretty great place to guide our neighbors toward a hope-filled future.