Lake View Presbyterian Church

Come One, Come All! This has been my church home for over ten years. We have programs for kids, teens, young adults, parents and programs for adults of all ages. Our community includes people who are GLBTQ and Straight, a few days old (2 new babies last week!) and others still young-​at-​heart, partnered and single people, parents and families, people new to Chicago and people who count our church as a family and a home. We believe in faith-​in-​action and keep busy with a Friday night program for GLBTQ youth, a Golden Diner weekday program, an on-​site alternative high school, involvement in activism around issues such as Israel & Palestine, fair trade, gun violence, eco-​justice, disaster relief and other issues that touch us. The sermons are thought-​provoking, the music is beautiful and we laugh, pray, learn, explore, question, grow and celebrate together. Services are at 9am and 11 am on Sundays — (Sunday School at 10). Check out our website and facebook page, too.

Want a place that understands spiritual growth is an ever changing reforming life time exercise growing into the «ourselves» God is creating will love this faith community.

Prior to Lakeview Presbyterian, my experience with religion and church was not the most positive: the pastor in my first church never heard of the Apocrypha, the second only looked at her congregation as units for tithes. I pretty much gave up on religion, and pretty much relegated it as an arm of politics. But one day, I thought to myself, why not? I have to stop by Redbox to return a dvd anyway …
The very first sermon was amazing. Rev. Joy illustrated that maybe God’s temperament changes between the Old Testament and the New not because of political expediency in the «scrivener’s» of the Bible, but because God is with us, and also adapting in our journey.
My life has never been the same. Rev. Joy and Larissa are always open to discuss all things religious and secular. Ask them anything Dan Brownish and seemingly heretical and they will give you an epistle demonstrating their understanding and faith.
But the church also provides services to the Lakeview community. It provides lunches to elders in the neighborhood, it offers Café Pride giving Lakeview youth a warm and safe space to hangout on Fridays, the congregation is active at Pride and Market Days, and it offers an amazing Free Trade Bazaar.
So if you want to grow religiously, or just academically — go to Lakeview. If you want to meet cool diverse people — go to Lakeview. If you want your blood pressure checked by the church’s nurse, Sue Cox, go to Lakeview.

Volunteers and pastor’s run this joint and offer a LOT to the community! Sunday services are at 9am & 11am. Pastors Joy & Larissa are great at what they do and Joy often brings me to tears with her sermons. Can’t beat that!
Coffee and treats are served before and after sermons and there is standing room, if preferred!

I moved here last summer and went to a ton of churches looking for the right fit for me. Lakeview Presbyterian is definitely the church that made me feel the most comfortable and I ended up joining in May. I would describe the atmosphere as laidback, welcoming, diverse and intellectual. It is a More Light church
and is very active in social justice issues. The pastor, Joy, is really good at what she does. If you’re looking for a church actively working on what they are preaching, this is the place. Check it out some Sunday (preferably at 11 am) and say hello :)