One month ago today, a health crisis struck our family. Yet the holiday season still hustles along. Each day, we float in and out of prayer…longing for hurts to heal. For sparks of joy to keep hope burning. For patience with each other and strength to meet our daily responsibilities. For a lifetime’s worth of […]
To see past life’s distractions, pray together
Short people learn to leap over obstacles. Being short all my life (climbing cabinets, projecting my voice and my personality, lifting heavy stuff both literal and figurative), I can attest with Zacchaeus: obstacles are made to be overcome! In our passage from Luke last week, Zacchaeus was seeking to see Jesus, and once Jesus saw […]
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Right where God wants us
Since Jesus isn’t here in person, but we are, the church isn’t our building. The church is the people with his Spirit…and the Spirit blows where it wants! (John 3:8) That makes my job coordinating our Beyond These Walls gifts very exciting. This time of year, we celebrate people like Curtis who stepped into a […]
Clues for a life well-lived
I met someone last week who gave me a clue for how to be more joyful and compassionate. Pascal Bimenyimana visited Chapel Hill from Haiti where he leads our global partner there, World Relief. He is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s, and he has served among the most devastated places in […]
Building on Faith
Two of the students on the high school Mexico GO Team will be among those baptized tomorrow! I’ve gotten to know and love them during this year of learning to live on mission. One of our Ensenada projects with our global outreach partner Agua Viva was to build a home addition alongside a foster mom […]
Seeing miracles up close
I met six-month-old Aurora in the men’s prison last week. She’s a fluffy white doodle training to be a Diabetic Service Dog. We watched her detect the scent of hypoglycemia off her trainer…a man who has been incarcerated for many years. Learning to alert her master before he loses consciousness is a skill that could […]
Festival of Hope
Did you know that Chapel Hill Church’s first Christmas Bazaar was in 1965? We have continued the Festival of Hope tradition to empower people and outreach partners around the world. Join us Sunday, November 23, 2025 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in the Chapel Hill Gathering Place. This isn’t just another holiday market—it’s a chance […]
Battleground: Delhi
Before the surge, we thought our battle in Delhi was for basic needs… But COVID taught us that our actual fight is for our dignity of existence and in death. […]
empowering you to serve
Has God put an area of need on your heart? Grace for the outcast? Gospel-motivation in your profession? Renewal for creation? Meet our member-led outreach groups! […]
Sending leaders around the world
Chapel Hill helps support believers around the world each with a unique mission. To love the abused or abandoned, to listen, to teach, to offer grace, hope and purpose. As a global church family, we pray for each other and spur one another on. […]