Jazzy Johnson is a community educator, womanist play facilitator, and organizer specializing in curating and facilitating transformative liturgical and religious education experiences of learning at the intersections of Christian faith, identity, justice, and repair. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and Sociology Minor and Emory University Candler School of Theology with her Master of Divinity degree, certificate in Religious Education and concentration in Justice, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation. Jazzy facilitates and researches B/bibliodrama, a text-based method of play-filled critical interpretation and embodied, collective storytelling. Jazzy is currently a Ph.D. student at Emory University in the Graduate Division of Religion. Her research interests live within the interconnections between pedagogy, performance, play(ing), protest and poetics in Liturgical theology, Religious Education, and pastoral care.

We are sooooo excited ti be blessed for 22 years serving our church community! We moved into our church home 3709 W Grand Ave 60651 on this date September 14th. 11 years ago!

Dr. Valerie Ranee Landfair is the Founder and Executive Director of Firstfruit Ministry, Inc. of Evanston, Illinois. She has 17 years of management experience from a Fortune 500 company (Bachelor of Science in Organizational Management, Illinois State University, 1986).In 2009, Valerie completed her Masters of Divinity at North Park Theological Seminary. Her Ph.D. in Theology at Regent University in Virginia was completed in December 2017.She has taught at McCormick theological Seminary, North Park Theological Seminary, North Park University, Trinity Christian College, and Saint Xavier University teaching: Leadership and Church Growth, Leadership in Urban Ministry, Religion, Forming Disciples: Lament, Repentance, and Hope in Congregations, and Introduction to Bible.