Victory Cathedral Worship Center

Sunday, September 20^th, 2009 @ 7:30am

Romeoville High School Auditorium

100 N. Independence Drive Romeoville, IL  60446

Christopher L. Evans Sr. is the founder and Senior Pastor of Destiny Worship Center International, a creative, cutting-edge, 21st century church headquartered in Hogansville Georgia.  Pastor Evans recently planted a second location strategically located in Newnan Georgia. Evans is a graduate of Hogansville High School and continued his education at Florida A and M University. He later attended Toccoa Falls Bible College and recently received a Masters of Leadership from Southwestern Christian University.  He plans to further his education by enrolling in the Regent University Doctoral program in 2010.           

Pastor Evans is best known as powerful and prolific preacher who teaches and expounds on the Word of God with simplicity and understanding.  With wittiness and a strong sense of humor, Evans enjoys creating an atmosphere where individuals can relax and encounter a different approach to church as usual.  With a message of hope and opportunity, individuals are invited to dream beyond the moment and focus on a life with endless opportunities. His ministry stimulates dreamers to pursue their God given purpose in life.  Pastor Evans believes that fulfillment in life is only obtained through discovering and achieving individual purpose.  Therefore, Pastor Evans and Destiny Worship Center exists to lead people to maturity and their destiny in Christ.

With a primary focus on encouragement, each message is prepared to enhance an individual’s awareness of their destiny.  At Destiny, great strides are made to promote excellence in all aspects of life.  It is his desire that the people of God come into everything that God has for them. After years of his own research and study of scripture and society, Pastor Evans places a strong emphasis on education, both secular and spiritual.  He fully believes that in order for individuals to maximize their potential, training is imperative.  Pastor Evans has structured the ministry with training and education as a priority.  This passion is exemplified through teachings that endorse the development of the mind as well as the spirit.  Recently, the Change Institute was launched at Destiny to provide support for individuals who desire to change in certain areas of their life.  This initiative covers a wide variety of subject matters including: Singleness, Marriage, Small Business Development, Tutoring and Mentoring.

In addition to being a renowned communicator, Pastor Evans possesses a host of other skills, talents and abilities. Recently, he completely his first book entitled A Second Chance due in late 2009.  As a playwright, he has dazzled audiences with religious comedies and dramas leading hundreds to Christ.

Sunday, September 20^th, 2009 @ 12:30pm

Chicago Vocational Career Academy (CVCA)

 2100 E. 87th St. Chicago, IL 60617

Pastor Charles Jenkins

Charles Jenkins has been firmly established as one of the most dynamic forces in Christendom and beyond.  As a community leader, counselor, and preacher, 33 year old Jenkins is respected and revered for his innovative thinking, age old wisdom, contemporary leadership, business savvy and his holistic approach to ministry.  As pastor of the historic Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, Jenkins has quadrupled the church’s weekend attendance, and implemented an innumerable amount of ministries and programs.

Pastor Jenkins is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute earning a Bachelors of Science degree in Christian Education and a graduate of at Trinity   Evangelical Divinity School holding a Masters of   Arts degree in Religion.

Charles Jenkins sits on a number of corporate, religious, governmental, and educational boards.  He is also a conduit that brings people together to ensure mobility and momentum for individuals, organizations, and communities. Pastor Jenkins is truly considered the yardstick for his generation.

A man of balance, Jenkins is married to Dr. Tara Rawls-Jenkins and has two young daughters, Princess and Paris, and one son, Charles Jenkins III.

Wednesday, September 16^th, 2009 @ 7pm

Ashyana Banquets

1620 75th Street, Downers Grove, IL 60516

 Pastor Sheryl Brady

Pastor, Conference Speaker, Recording Artist, Wife, Mother and Grandmother. Sheryl Brady does it all with grace, wisdom and inspiration.  She has traveled extensively around the globe for more than 25 years previously as a psalmist and now as a sought after speaker at conferences and churches.  She is a frequent guest on TBN’s national “Praise The Lord” program and has ministered for Bishop T. D. Jakes at his MEGA-fest conferences.

Pastor Sheryl’s humanitarian efforts are affecting lives all over the world. Her ministry offers a wide array of outreaches, which include feeding thousands of people annually through the food bank program housed on the Sheryl Brady Ministries and The River Church campus, supporting the families of U. S. troops stationed overseas and many more.  Also, close to Pastor Brady’s heart is the support of families with terminally ill children through prayerful, emotional and financial support. One of the future outreach goals for Pastor Brady is to open “G-Ma’s House”, a loving and stable home for newborn babies of incarcerated mothers. A refuge and a hope for our most precious gifts, our children.

Having recorded several music projects, Pastor Sheryl appeared as a guest artist on Bishop T. D. Jakes’ “Woman Thou Art Loosed” album, co-writing the title cut on this Grammy, Dove and Stellar-nominated recording.

Pastor Sheryl Brady and her husband, Bishop Joby Brady, are the founders and overseers of The River, a thriving church in Durham, NC. Their three daughters Lana, Tina and Nina are active leaders in their ministry. She is a proud grandmother of four, Jaden, McKenzie, Josiah, and Ryan.