Here is the coffee bar at Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington,
Illinois. Founded in 1975, Willow Creek now attracts over 20,000 worshippers every weekend
to its corporate campus-like site in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. A national
pioneer in "seeker evangelism", the church constantly seeks for new ways to
attract the unchurched. In 1991 it built a food court next to the auditorium, to
provide a comfortable place to eat with and evangelize guests. In 1995 the food court
added a coffee bar to appeal to the so-called "Generation X-ers". Before and
after the Saturday evening services targeted at this age group, Food Service Director
Frank Scimeca reports, one can see young people "sharing cappuccino and sharing
Christ." The photo was taken by Daniel Sack
as part of his research for "Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American
Culture."
Here is the coffee bar at Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington,
Illinois. Founded in 1975, Willow Creek now attracts over 20,000 worshippers every weekend
to its corporate campus-like site in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. A national
pioneer in "seeker evangelism", the church constantly seeks for new ways to
attract the unchurched. In 1991 it built a food court next to the auditorium, to
provide a comfortable place to eat with and evangelize guests. In 1995 the food court
added a coffee bar to appeal to the so-called "Generation X-ers". Before and
after the Saturday evening services targeted at this age group, Food Service Director
Frank Scimeca reports, one can see young people "sharing cappuccino and sharing
Christ." The photo was taken by Daniel Sack
as part of his research for "Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American
Culture."