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Willow Creek Community Church Hosts World-Renowned Best-Selling Authors Lee Strobel & Anne Lamott On April 1-2, 2017
Distinguished Authors, Strobel and Lamott, to Speak on Grace & Mercy as part of Willow Creek's 'Where's God in All of This?' Message Series
Willow Creek Community Church is continuing the series Where is God in All of This? and welcomes two highly-regarded and esteemed best-selling authors: Anne Lamott and Lee Strobel to take part in weekend services on Saturday, April 1 (5:30 p.m.) and Sunday, April 2 (9 and 11:15 a.m.).
Each known for their incredible faith journeys, Lamott and Strobel will both speak on the themes of grace and mercy, leading into the upcoming Easter weekend. Lamott will also discuss her forthcoming book, Hallelujah Anyway; Rediscovering Mercy, due April 2017. Lee Strobel will touch on his worldwide best-selling book-turned major motion picture, The Case For Christ (accounting his journey from atheism to faith), which is is due in theaters April 7. View the trailer here.
About Lee Strobel
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Atheist-turned-Christian, Lee Strobel is the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and best-selling author of more than twenty books. His classic, The Case for Christ, is a perennial favorite which details his conversion to Christianity. His recent release, The Case for Grace, just won the 2016 Nonfiction Book of the Year from the EPCA. For the last twenty-five years, his life’s work has been to share the evidence that supports the truth and claims of Christianity and to equip believers to share their faith with the people they know and love.
Lee was a journalist for fourteen years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois' highest honor for public service journalism from United Press International. He also led a team that won UPI's top award for investigative reporting in Illinois.
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About Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott writes and speaks about subjects that begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus. But armed with self-effacing humor - she is laugh-out-loud funny and ruthlessly honest - she converts her subjects into enchantment.
Lamott is the author of the forthcoming book, Hallelujah Anyway, and the New York Times bestsellers Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. She has a special way of communicating her faith in her books and in person - she lifts, comforts, and inspires, all the while keeping us laughing. Lamott is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame.
Those who can’t attend can tune in to WillowCreek.tv. Additional information can be found at willowcreek.org and on social media @WillowCreekCC.
Willow Creek Community Church, now in its 41st year, is a non-denominational Christian church with weekly attendance of more than 25,000. The main campus is located at 67 E. Algonquin Rd., South Barrington, Illinois. Seven other Willow Creek churches are located throughout Chicagoland.
