Honoring our storied past,
planning for a future our founders would be proud of
In the year 2016, two young ministers started work on an ambitious new project: to found a creative, inclusive congregation of Christian practice on the far north side of Chicago. They wanted to gather a community that would make beautiful worship together, grow and share good food, throw great parties and make real friends, and tell true stories that save lives. Today, that congregation is known as Gilead Chicago, and its mission is as vital now as it was when those two young dreamers began.
For this year's pledge campaign, we hope to honor Gilead's storied legacy, while building toward a future our founders could never have imagined. To do this, we've set a goal of $55,000 in pledge commitments and recurring gifts for 2020. If Gilead is your church or the kind of church you'd like to see more of, we hope you'll consider setting up a recurring donation through our website and filling out a pledge card in church or online at bit.ly/GoodOlGilead.
Pledges of any amount are helpful, and we're grateful for all you do.
Looking into the Gilead archive recently, we discovered this text sent to one of Gilead's ministers way back in spring 2019:
“Gilead feels like spiritual rehab...the kind where they teach people with traumatic brain injuries how to walk again. That community and that approach to communal worship is teaching me how to...be open to religion again? Be open to God again?”
It's not hard to imagine words like those being written in our own time, is it? Help us continue the important work of doing church differently. Together we can make sure there are as many years ahead of us as there are behind us!
Mostly Sincerely,
The Committee for Ensuring Gilead's Rich Historical Legacy