Events
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Unity Picnic - June 28, 2025
You’re invited to a fun family picnic on Saturday, June 28th 10:00am - 4:00pm at Roesner Park in Markham, IL. This event is sponsored by the Unity in the Church Men’s Group and everyone is invited. It’s a chance for fellowship and outreach to the South Suburbs, since we are collaborating with the Markham Park District, to invite families from the Markham neighborhood.
Book Launch - June 10, 2025
Help us celebrate the publishing of Kingdom Racial Change Overcoming Inequality, Injustice, and Indifference by Michael A. Evans, David L. McFadden and Michael O. Emerson
Release date: June 10th on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and Christianbook
Find out more about the book HERE.
Cubs/Sox Crosstown Classic - July 26, 2025
Join other men interested in building unity across racial barriers. The first 150 men who register for the 5th Annual Men’s Retreat, will also receive tickets to the Cubs/Sox crosstown classic on Saturday, July 26th at Guaranteed Rate Field. All the seats are behind, or near, home plate on the 100 level. They will also be invited to join like-hearted men at the tailgate meal that will precede the game. The Registration for the retreat is linked below.
5th Annual Men’s Retreat - September 5-7, 2025
You are invited to join us for our 5th annual Men’s Unity Conference on September 5-7, 2025 at Conference Point, Williams Bay, WI (Lake Geneva). The speakers will be Dr. Michael Emerson, Rev. Michael Evans and David McFadden, M.D, who authored the newly released book “Kingdom Racial Change: Overcoming Inequality, Injustice and Indifference”.
2024 Retreat Recap Video
2025 is shaping up to be a good year for men who want to help to pursue healthy relationships that build bridges across the many barriers that can divide us. Is there one or more of these events that would work for you to connect with like-hearted men and actively support our vision to build multi-ethnic community?
Because Christ wants us to work it out
The Bible paints a beautiful picture of how God desires that his children live as one. In fact, Jesus prayed this prior to going to the cross.
But we live in a divided world. It’s complex and there aren’t easy answers. When it comes to racial issues facing the church, we’re dealing with problems that go back 400 years. It’s easy to want to ignore the inequality in our world or simply wash our hands of the problems.
Jesus calls us to something different. We don’t fully know what this can look like, but we want to try. For our 4th Unity retreat we built on what has been done in our past events to bring men together to face tough realities so that real solutions can start to emerge.
We realize that we need to understand the problem to effectively respond with solutions. We spent time learning what is preventing unity and our guest speakers leaned on their experience to help us work towards unity and being involved in the solution. We looked at how each of us can help build bridges, focus on relationships, engage in friendships, and pray for one another. We humbly seek something better for our Christian brothers.
Our focus is to look ahead and the solid hope we have in Christ! There was time for open and honest dialog with others. And of course, there was opportunity for fun, great eating, relaxation, and time of solitude with God along the beautiful shore of Lake Geneva.