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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.
-- Sharon Sivertsen
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/.
A theory of biological design (TOBD) is a clear, profoundly different, and true replacement framework for interpreting biological pheomena that is princcipally creature-focused , and assumes biological functions are best explained by engineering principles. Thus, a TOBD is deliberately not putting a creationist spin on Darwinism, or only identifying the abundant flaws in evolution.
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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.)
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!
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! One unique feature of the Judson University setting is -- no cabins! This is a college campus. For MCF'ers, it's the closest place to get great apologetics training.
They can't likely put ALL of these in one retreat, but these are being considered!
There will be a limit of 100 teens.
Registration: here
For more information call 1-800-552-4673, Dave Drake.
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.)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one incredible feat of engineering. Dr. Danny Faulkner will describe the design and purposes of the JWST for us. But more importantly, he will discuss how the early results coming from this telescope have disproven evolutionary theories about the origin and history of the universe, and perhaps what lies ahead for the JWST.
Click here for the video on our YouTube channel.
Click here for links to collections of our own meeting videos, plus great sources of other groups' FREE online videos!