Stories About TLCC

Below is a list of book excerpts and newspaper articles highlighting some of the things that are going an at The Life Christian Church.

WEST ORANGE CHRONICLE

Kevin McCullom, 2009

  • “The African Children’s Choir performs around the world, showing the beauty, dignity and potential of each African child, while shining a spotlight on the desperate plight of the orphaned and abandoned in Africa.”
  • View entire article here.

SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL CITY

Dr. Mac Pier, Forwards by Terry Smith and Bill Hybels, 2008

  • “The church has created a leadership culture that helps people at whatever starting point they find themselves, and encourages and enables them to progress in all area of their lives.”
  • View entire article here.

NEW YORK TIMES

Paul Vitello, Sunday, December 14, 2008

  • “An Evangelical Article of Faith: Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds – At The Life Christian Curch in West Orange, NJ., prayer request have doubled – almost all of them aimed at getting or keeping jobs.”
  • View entire article here.

THE STAR LEDGER

Kevin C. Dilworth, Thursday, July 19, 2007

  • “…misguided critics are misrepresenting the outreach and spiritual guidance efforts the church has for its planned house of worship in the township”
  • View entire article here.

WILLOW MAGAZINE

Bill Hybels, 2005

  • “We’re always casting vision here, not just when we have a capital campaign going,” “From the moment someone begins to contemplate formally being a member here, we talk to them about the mission and vision of the church.”
  • View entire article here.

THE JESUS ENTERPRISE

Kent R. Hunter, 2004

  • “The Life Christian Church has brought the energy and creativity of the city into its space. It is an enterprise ministry engaging Main Street. It is an ethnically diverse congregation, which is reflected in it’s leadership.”
  • View entire article here.

STARTING A NEW CHURCH

Dale Galloway with Warren Bird, 2003

  • “Initially, we were meeting in the basement of a church and were as insignificant a church in the eyes of the community as you could imagine,”  he says. That was back in 1991.”
  • View entire article here.