You Don't
Have to
Have It
Together.
A church for people who ask hard questions, carry real weight, and aren't sure what they believe yet. We're not a polished production. We're a community of imperfect people who've encountered the love of Jesus.
Led By
Life. Not
By Title.
Take Heart is a new Seventh-day Adventist church plant in Huntley, Illinois. Led not by seminary graduates, but by people whose faith was forged in fire.
Our leaders have faced war zones, stared death in the face, and lived to tell about it. They don't have polished answers. They have lived ones.
We exist for people who've walked away from church, people who never started, and people who are asking questions nobody seems willing to answer honestly.
If you've ever felt like church was for people who had their lives figured out: this is for you.
Built on Three
Unshakeable Things.
We're not building a program. We're building a community with convictions.
Uncompromising Truth
We preach the whole Bible. Not a highlight reel. The uncomfortable parts. The parts that challenge you. The parts that change you. We don't soften what God says to make it more palatable.
Radical Honesty
Every service ends with open mic Q&A. Ask anything: theology, doubt, pain, ethics, the hard stuff. No question is off limits. We'd rather wrestle with truth than perform certainty we don't have.
Authentic Community
Not a social club. Not a networking event. A community where you can be known. Flaws, doubts, and all. We believe real transformation happens in honest relationships, not in polished performances.
When You
Walk In.
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01
No Dress Code. No Performance.
Come as you are. Seriously. We don't care what you're wearing. We care that you showed up.
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02
Worship That Means Something.
Not a concert. Not ambient background music. Worship that centers the room on something bigger than all of us.
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03
Preaching With Edge.
Direct, honest, unapologetic. We won't water it down. We believe you're capable of handling the truth. And that you're hungry for it.
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04
Open Mic After Every Service.
Ask anything. Challenge us. Push back. This isn't a monologue. It's a dialogue. Your questions make the community stronger.
Our first service is designed for one kind of person: someone who's been burned by religion, someone who still can't shake the feeling that there's something real out there, and someone who's tired of being talked at.
You don't have to believe anything to walk through the door. You just have to be willing to ask.
Real People.
Real Stories.
Take Heart is led by people whose faith wasn't taught in a classroom. It was tested in war zones, on operating tables, and in the wreckage of their own choices. That's not a weakness. It's the point.
Tim's faith didn't start in a church. It was forged in conflict zones where the line between life and death was paper-thin. He's seen things that shook him to his core and found something that held. He preaches the way he's lived: direct, without apology, with everything on the line.
Kevin died. That's not a metaphor. A motorcycle crash stopped his heart. What happened next changed everything. He doesn't preach from theory. He preaches from the other side of something most people never come back from. His testimony is his credential.
Come as
You Are.
What Are
You Waiting For?
You've been skeptical before. Maybe you still are. That's fine. Walk in skeptical. Ask the hard questions. See what happens.
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