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May 3, 5 & 6, 2025
Bacteria: A Curse or a Blessing
with Dr. Jerry Bergman
of Creation Ministries International
Have you ever wondered why God made the bacteria and viruses that attack us so frequently? Dr. Jerry Bergman delves into the functions of bacteria and viruses, showing that they are a critical part of our ecosystem, and that pathogenicity is very rare. He covers the true reasons for this problem, based on his new book (coauthored with James Hoff) Why Did God Create Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Pathogens? The Overwhelming Case Against Naturalistic Evolution and Methodological Naturalism .
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advertising the location's meeting. If your church uses slides on screen for announcements, or printed
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(Please click the date below to open the times and location.)
Saturday, May 3
Family of Faith Church6645 West Steger Rd.
Monee, IL 60449
5:00 p.m.: Doors open
5:30 p.m.: Light refreshments
6:00 p.m.: Presentation
7:00 p.m.: Q&A
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Monday, May 5
Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church1501 Deep Lake Road
Antioch, IL 60002
6:00 p.m.: Doors open
6:30 p.m.: Refreshments
7:00 p.m.: Presentation
8:00 p.m.: Q&A
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Tuesday, May 6
25W560 Geneva RoadCarol Stream, IL 60188
6:30 p.m.: Doors open
6:45 p.m.: Refreshments
7:00 p.m.: Presentation
8:00 p.m.: Q&A
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July 20-25, 2025
Reasons for Hope and Carl Kerby Present the Impact Retreat for Ages 11 to 20!
Why not bring your youth group?
Got questions? Get answers!
Every young Christian who thinks will have questions about Christianity, especially after seeing the attacks on television on the "historical Jesus" ... with K-college schools teaching that the universe and life happened by chance... Is the Bible's history really any more than a collection of just-so tales, first told by a fireside thousands of years ago? Or is there any evidence that the "tales" are true? [Spoiler: you BET there's evidence!]
An EQUIP retreat is an annual apologetics-based retreat held across the country at different locations. The speakers are ALL convinced that the Bible IS reporting real history, including in Genesis Chapter 1 (six days of creation). The retreat is designed to teach young people to own, share, and defend their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. While there will be lots of fun and games, the goal of EQUIP is to plant seeds that inspire a generation of teens to have eternal impact on the Kingdom of God by equipping them to better understand, articulate, and spread the Gospel.
NOTE: If this date doesn't work for you, there are SIX other similar retreats scheduled throughout summer 2025, at six different locations!
Location:
Judson University1151 North State Street, Elgin, IL 60123
Accommodations:
No tents, no cabins -- just modern dorm rooms!This would be a preview of Judson for prospective students!
And the fun stuff?
- water games
- bike trip
- kayaking (the Elgin campus is on the Fox River)
- nature walk
- capture the flag
- night games
- relays
- scavenger hunt
- gaga ball
- volleyball
- basketball
- dodgeball
- kickball
- soccer
- pickleball
- disc golf
- lawn games (cornhole, giant Jenga, KanJam, etc.)
- team building games
- board games.
They can't likely put ALL of these in one retreat, but these are being considered!
Cost:
$395Sponsorships are available if there is a need! We don't want anyone to miss out because of the cost!
There will be a limit of 100 teens.
Registration: here
For more information call 1-800-552-4673, Dave Drake.
PAST Events are on YouTube, Here
Future Events
- 2025:
- May 31, June 2 & 3: Dr. Randy Guliuzza: A Theory of Biological Design: Bringing an Overdue Revolution to Biology
- July 7, 8 & 12: Mr. Terry Mondy: The Enemy Within
- August 2, 4 & 5: Dr Joel Brown: The Greatest Show on Earth -OR- The Art of Creation
- September 6, 8 & 9: Dr. Robert Carter: Matthew and Luke Geneologies of Jesus
- October 4, 6 & 7: Dr. Terry Mortenson: Millions of Years: The Idea's Unscientific Origin and Catastrophic Consequences
- November 1, 3 & 4: "Dino Dave" Woetzel: The Fiery Flying Serpent
- December 6, 8 & 9: Mr. Duane Caldwell: The Tower of Babel: The End of the Beginning
- 2026:
- January 3, 4 & 6: Dr. Dave Finkbeiner: The Universal Flood Supports a Young Earth
Pastors! Often our MCF speaker is available to speak at your church on the Sunday during the MCF series of meetings! If interested, let us know at 847.223.4730. (This is the Sivertsen residence.)
Video: Paleoanthropology: Falsifying the Evolutionary "Ape-to-man" Story
MCF's March 2024 meeting with Dr. Christopher Rupe
Since the 1970s, the famous "Lucy" skeleton and the species she is believed to represent, have been promoted to the world as a credible evolutionary transitional species. Creationists have long argued that Lucy and her kind were nothing more than an extinct ape. In this video, Chris presents an alternative view, which he refers to as "the pygmy human hypothesis." Other fossils attributed to Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, are examined, including several misclassified human bones. Granting for the sake of argument that the dating methods are reliable, these true human fossils falsify the evolutionary ape-to-man model since they pre-date the reputed origin of the human genus "Homo". Toward the end of the presentation, Chris shares a simpler biblical model that better explains the hominin fossil record.
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