University Bible Fellowship

2009 Triton/DuPage/NIU Joint Thanksgiving Report

Thank God for all his mercy and grace upon us this year. Thank God that he allowed three Chicago west-suburban chapters to co-work together mightily. This year we had a joint Thanksgiving Sunday Worship Service at Illinois Institute of Technology Rice Campus in Wheaton. Initially the service was to be held at the DuPage Bible House, but the Bible House was going to be too small. By God’s grace he provided the IIT Rice Campus . This was the first time we held a service there and a perfect space located next to the College of DuPage. The building was rented for minimum cost and provided an auditorium that could seat 150 people. God sent more than 100 precious people.

The message this year was from Job 1:21 delivered by Shepherd Jeremy Hajek, “May the Name of the Lord be Praised.” We wanted to learn from Job why we should praise God in this dark time of our nation and how we can praise God. We learned that we can praise God when we keep our integrity and shun evil. We learned that if we don’t praise God for the good he has given we will complain and curse his holy name. Many people made new decisions for this year to praise God for all his good works.

Triton ministry served Communion by the leading of Shepherd Rene Alonzo. We were blessed with the beautiful special music from the Triton music team and blessed with the performance of the NIU praise team for offering. We delivered our all offering to Dr. Joseph Chung who went to Uganda as a missionary together with his wife, Missionary Esther Chung.

We were thankful for Dr. John Jun and Missionary Sun Ji Jun who attended and blessed us with his benediction to pioneer all of the west-suburbs together by the power of Holy Spirit. We then had a joyful lunch fellowship together.