Willow Creek pastor Dave Dummitt tests positive for COVID-19 on heels of Global Leadership Summit
RNS The senior pastor of an influential Chicagoland megachurch has tested positive for COVID-19. Dave Dummitt was supposed to preach this weekend at Willow Creek Community Church but had to bow out after receiving a positive COVID test on Saturday. “Just so you know, he is feeling fine, just mild symptoms,” Shawn Williams, pastor of […]
Craig Groeschel, Life.Church pastor, quarantined at home after coronavirus exposure
RNS Two pastors of one of the nation’s largest churches are being quarantined by local health authorities at home after being exposed to the new coronavirus at a leadership training conference in Germany. Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of Oklahoma-based Life.Church, which claims nearly 90,000 attenders at its 34 campuses spread over 10 states, was a […]
WILLOW CREEK: LEADERSHIP SUMMIT GOES ON DESPITE MASS RESIGNATIONS
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports from Willow Creek’s annual Global Leadership Summit…
Willow Creek investigates Hybels as pastor quits over new allegations
RNS US-based Willow Creek Community Church announced it will commission an independent investigation of sexual harassment allegations against founding pastor Bill Hybels, a day after one of the two pastors who succeeded Hybels resigned over the church’s handling of the matter. Heather Larson, lead pastor at the influential evangelical Chicago-area megachurch, announced the investigation Monday […]