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Contents:
- July 7, 8 & 12: The Enemy Within, with Mr. Terry Mondy
- July 20-25, 2025: CANCELLED! Impact Retreat, for ages 11 to 20
- Past & Future Events
- MCF's June video: A Theory of Biological Design: Bringing an Overdue Revolution to Biology, with Dr. Randy Guliuzza
- Dr. Kenneth Funk Memorial Fund
- In Memoriam: Dr. Kenneth Funk
July 7, 8 & 12, 2025
The Enemy Within
with Mr. Terry Mondy
There is a growing movement among some Christian intellectuals to dismiss the Young Earth 6-Day creation model. These academics want to replace it with "Progressive (evolultionary) Creation", which teaches that Adam and Eve were not real people, that the global flood of Noah is "pure fantasy", and that contemporary science strongly supports an old earth and universe.
Come to learn from Terry why this threat to Christian thinking is real, and what we should do to counteract this unbiblical movement.
Below each location are links to slides
advertising the location's meeting. If your church uses slides on screen for announcements, or printed
bulletins, would you ask your pastor to include one of these to advertise this meeting? (Thanks!)
(Please click the date below to open the times and location.)
CANCELLED
July 20-25, 2025
Reasons for Hope and Carl Kerby Present the Impact Retreat for Ages 11 to 20!
We're so sorry, but in the last few days, two churches cancelled for this retreat. There are not enough students left for this camp to take place. But there is ONE more camp with space available, July 20-25 in South Carolina. (New Jersey has a wait list).
Got questions about the reality of the Bible's statements of history--the supernatural creation, the world-wide Flood, the age of the earth, Jesus' resurrection? Bring it on!
This retreat is designed to help you understand the evidence for the truth of the
Bible.
We will have fun, games, and fellowship with other teens who are asking the same questions you are!
Why not bring your youth group?
Every young Christian who thinkswill 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 is ONE other similar retreat, July 20-25, in South Carolina.
Location:
Judson University1151 North State Street, Elgin, IL 60123
PAST Events are on YouTube, Here
Future Events
- 2025:
- 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: A Theory of Biological Design: Bringing an Overdue Revolution to Biology
MCF's June 2025 meeting with Dr. Randy Guliuzza
This theory of biological design (TOBD) is a clear, profoundly different, and true replacement framework for interpreting biological pheomena that is principally creature-focused, and assumes biological functions are best explained by engineering principles. Thus, this TOBD is deliberately not putting a creationist spin on Darwinism, or only identifying the abundant flaws in evolution.
Click here for links to collections of our own meeting videos, plus great sources of other groups' FREE online videos!
Dr. Kenneth Funk Memorial Fund
Midwest Creation Fellowship has established the Dr. Kenneth Funk Memorial Fund. The fund will probably be used specifically to help students pay for creation camps/retreats, such as the event at Judson University (below). Training the next generation was near to Ken's heart. If you would like to contribute to the fund, please click the Donate button below.
In Memoriam:
Dr. Kenneth Funk
On May 28, 2025, our beloved co-laborer and brother in Christ passed into the presence of the Lord. (Obituary: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/gurnee-il/kenneth-funk-12400761)
Dr. Kenneth Funk Ken was the reason we opened MCF North, our venue in Lake County, Illinois. He was the Director of the North venue, and did the complex and taxing work of scheduling speakers and making sure everyone knew who was going where, when, and doing what. He personally drove speakers to our locations, when necessary, and personally provided additional funds for their work. He has scheduled speakers through January, possibly February, of next year. Also, when MCF has had a booth at the Lake County Fair (IL), Ken was there all day, every day. He was the one who devised a game to demonstrate the impossibility of a protein forming by chance, anywhere in the universe, at any time since creation began.
Dr. Funk's professional work was as a peptide chemist. Before his retirement from Abbott Laboratories, he was the lead for Lupron, a drug used to treat diseases that depend on certain hormones, including prostate cancer and endometriosis.
Ken and his wife were in line to attend a Gaither concert in February when he suddenly became ill and was taken to a hospital. The diagnosis was a very aggressive leukemia. After many treatments with chemotherapy, and many rounds of blood transfusions and platelets, the prognosis was "grim". We kept praying, knowing that if God didn't choose to heal him here, he would be hearing "Well done, good and faithful servant! Enter into the joy of your Lord!" I texted him "Either way, you win!" He texted back "Amen."
We on the MCF Board certainly miss him. But what a joy to imagine what he is experiencing in Heaven, in the presence of his Savior and Lord.
Here is the obituary online:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/gurnee-il/kenneth-funk-12400761
Nate Loper of Canyon Ministries has also posted a thoughtful memorial to Ken at
https://canyonministries.org/ken-funk/.
-- Sharon Sivertsen