Palm Sunday Services: 8:30 and 11am
2025-04-13 08:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Take part in a celebratory outdoor procession that mirrors Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Enjoy a Gospel reading that foretells coming events.
Please plan to arrive early and dress for the weather.
Services are at 8:30 and 11am. Please not the later start time of the second service.
Children’s worship available for ages 0 to 5th grade. Parents, please check children into RezKids before the service begins.
Livestream: 11 am only here.

Couples Communication Class
2025-04-13 10:30 - 12:30
Join us for our popular conflict course focused on improving communication and handling tension. Excellent for couples who are seriously dating, engaged, or married, no matter how long. Led by Paul and Laura Chelsen.
Meets Sundays, March 23 to April 13, during the 10:30am service.
Sign up here.

Good Friday Events & Services
2025-04-18 11:00 - 22:00
Confessions: 11am-12pm, upstairs offices
Meet with a pastoral leader who will lead you through a brief liturgy. Anyone is welcome, including children accompanied by a parent.
Stations of the Cross: 12pm & 1:30pm
No livestream. Reflect on the last hours of Christ’s life through song and prayer as we travel to stations in our building and outside.
Our outdoor stations are accessible; you can remain on pavement if you prefer.
All ages welcome; no childcare.
Good Friday Service: 3pm & 7pm
Our Good Friday service testifies to how Jesus’ sacrifice can free and heal us. Enter into events of the crucifixion with a dramatic reading of the Passion. Worship with our musicians as you wait to approach our large wooden cross in the sanctuary, where you may kneel and/or pray.
The 3pm service is more family-friendly. Childcare available for ages 0-5 at 3pm only.
Livestream available at 7pm only here.
Learn more about Good Friday here.

Great Vigil Light and Lessons 2pm & 7pm
2025-04-19 14:00 - 21:00
Light and Lessons: 2pm and 7pm
Our journey begins in candlelight as the ancient Exsultet chant ushers us into the Old Testament story of salvation history, presented through theater and music in our sanctuary.
See the Old Testament readings known as the “Salvation History” and learn more about Light and Lessons here.
Childcare available for ages 0-5 at 2pm only
Livestream available at 7pm only here.

Outdoor Prayer Walk 9:45-11pm
2025-04-19 21:45 - 23:00
At 9:45pm, following the Light and Lessons 7pm service, join us for an outdoor prayer walk and processional to commence the All Night Vigil, leaving from the narthex.
Dress for the weather, bring a flashlight if you desire.
No livestream or childcare.
Learn more about the Great Vigil of Easter here.

All Night Vigil 11pm - 5am
2025-04-19 23:00 - 2025-04-20 05:00
Saturday, 11pm to Sunday, 5am, in the sanctuary
Wait and watch with the Church through the night of Holy Saturday with worship, Easter Vigil Scriptures, preaching, and extended time for prayer.
No livestream or childcare.
Learn more about the Easter Vigil here.

Easter Sunday Services: 6am & 10am
2025-04-20 06:00 - 12:00
Easter Sunday services: 6am & 10am
Encounter Jesus at our joyful celebration of his resurrection! A continuation of the Vigil services begun the day before, our Easter morning services have identical liturgies. They include: the Acclamation that “Christ is Risen!”, the Holy Noise, baptisms, and the first Communion of Easter.
Bring your own Easter bells to ring!
Children’s worship available for ages 0-5 at 10am only.
Livestream is available at 10am only here.
Learn more about Easter Sunday here.

Board Games & Puzzles
2025-04-25 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-23 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-06-27 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-08-22 18:00 - 21:00
Enjoy playing board games or working on puzzles? Want to meet more folks at Rez? Join us on the 4th Fridays of the month, 6-9pm. All are welcome to this family-friendly event. Bring your own snacks. Location: upstairs, St. Gregory Room. Questions? Contact andrew.merrick51395@gmail.com

THRIVE Parent Support Group - Apr 27
2025-04-27 12:00 - 13:30
Parents and caregivers of families impacted by disability are invited to our THRIVE support group on Sunday, April 27. Join us after the 2nd service upstairs in the Acts 1 conference room.
Questions? Contact Jeff Chan: Jeff.chan@chanconsulting.com

RezArtists Meeting
2025-04-27 16:00 - 18:00
Find inspiration, encouragement, and fellowship among other writers, artists, and musicians at the RezArtists Meeting on Sunday, April 27, 4-6pm. Ages 18 and older.
Bring your creative work to share: songs, poems, performances, or visual works. Feel free to invite a fellow artist.
Location: The Macy home at 336 West Prairie Avenue, Wheaton IL 60187.
Questions? Email Janice Wood at jayjanwood@gmail.com.

First Step
2025-05-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-11 10:30 - 11:30
New to Resurrection? Want to learn more? Try First Step, a two-part introduction to who we are as a church. Meet key leaders, learn about our history and values, and connect with other new people. Includes coffee/tea and treats. No sign up needed, just come!
Sundays, May 4 and 11, 10:30am, upstairs in the office hospitality area.
Questions? Contact Discipleship Manager Rachel Adams at racheladams@churchrez.org

THRIVE Parent Support Group - May 18
2025-05-18 12:00 - 13:30
Parents and caregivers of families impacted by disability are invited to our THRIVE support group on Sunday, May 18. Join us after the 2nd service upstairs in the Acts 1 conference room.
Questions? Contact Jeff Chan: Jeff.chan@chanconsulting.com

THRIVE Parent Support Group - June 8
2025-05-18 12:00 - 13:30
Parents and caregivers of families impacted by disability are invited to our THRIVE support group on Sunday, June 8. Join us after the 2nd service upstairs in the Acts 1 conference room.
Questions? Contact Jeff Chan: Jeff.chan@chanconsulting.com

Sunday Afternoon Prayer Appointments
2025-05-18 13:30 - 14:30
If you are looking for a connection point with God, we invite you to sign up for a Sunday afternoon prayer appointment. In these hour-long prayer times, two pastoral leaders will lead you in healing prayer and connecting to Jesus. These appointments are usually available on the last Sunday of the month. Sunday, May 18, is an exception to the norm.
Sign up here.

Questions? Email Coordinator Leslie.Weinzettel@gmail.com.

RezArtists Meeting
2025-05-25 16:00 - 18:00
Find inspiration, encouragement, and fellowship among other writers, artists, and musicians at the RezArtists Meeting on Sunday, May 25, 4-6pm. Ages 18 and older.
Bring your creative work to share: songs, poems, performances, or visual works. Feel free to invite a fellow artist.
Location: the home of Jay & Janice Wood, 811 Grove Avenue, West Chicago, IL 60187
Questions? Email Janice Wood at jayjanwood@gmail.com.

Annual RezBusiness Meeting
2025-05-28 18:30 - 20:00
Come to the annual church business meeting on Wednesday, May 28, 6:30-8pm. You’ll hear testimonies from our new vestry candidates and learn about the new church budget. Members will approve the new vestry candidates. Location: Sanctuary.

Ascension Day Morning Prayer & Eucharist
2025-05-29 07:00 - 08:00
Join us on Thursday, May 29, for 7am Morning Prayer and Eucharist in All Saints Chapel in celebration of Ascension Day.
If you own a copy, bring your Book of Common Prayer 2019. Extras will be available.

Created in the Image of God: Dorothy L. Sayers
2025-06-01 12:30 - 14:00
Protestants interested in the relationship between Christianity and the arts are re-discovering the aesthetic theology of Dorothy L. Sayers, whom C.S. Lewis described as one of the most important influences on his spiritual growth. Like Lewis, Sayers was born into a Christian family but did not become earnest about faith until much later in life, and her transformation came through the arts—leading her to generate one of the biggest religious controversies in twentieth-century England. This talk will cover Sayers’ life story, explaining why theologians and Christian cultural critics continue to endorse her “Christian aesthetic.”
Come hear Dr. Crystal Downing’s presentation, “Created in the Image of God: Dorothy L. Sayers.” An award-winning author and former director of the Wade Center, Dr. Downing will speak on Sayers’ view of the relationship between Christianity and the arts.
Join us on Sunday, June 1, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, upstairs in the St. Gregory Room. Bring your own lunch.
Dr. Crystal L. Downing
With a PhD in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Crystal L. Downing has become a specialist on Dorothy L. Sayers. Her first book received an international award for outstanding Sayers scholarship, and her second on Sayers, Subversive, was granted what the Chicago Tribune described as “a coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly.” On June 5, Crystal’s sixth book, and her third on Sayers, The Wages of Cinema, will be released at the Marion E. Wade Center, where she served as co-director with her husband for six years.

Dcn. Margie & Dcn. Meghan's Stories from Central Asia
2025-06-08 12:30 - 14:00
Come listen to stories from Deacon Meghan and Deacon Margie who recently visited several of our global partners in Central Asia.
Join us upstairs in the St. Gregory Room on Sunday, June 8 at 12:30pm. Lunch is available if you sign up by June 5 here.

World Relief Spotlight on Refugees: Journey to belonging
2025-06-12 19:00 - 20:30
World Relief hosts an inspiring evening that will focus on refugees – what they have lived through and are facing now with so many changes to policies. This special event, Spotlight on Refugees: Journey to Belonging, features keynote speaker Denis Kweri who will share his personal journey as a refugee and advocate. Denis’s story is a testament to strength in the face of hardship, and it will set the stage for an engaging panel discussion to follow.
Following his talk, Denis will be joined by:

World Relief’s VP of Advocacy, Matthew Soerens
Director of Case Management, Liza Khalil
Immigration Attorney, Sara Oh
Moderated by Executive Director, Susan Sperry

This panel will be a dynamic conversation on the current global landscape for refugees. Together, they will offer insights and practical ways the Church can respond with compassion and action. Please RSVP to World Relief through the link here, if possible. Didn’t RSVP? Come anyway!
Location: sanctuary
This event is run by World Relief, not Church of the Resurrection.

RezArtists Meeting
2025-06-22 16:00 - 18:00
Find inspiration, encouragement, and fellowship among other writers, artists, and musicians at the RezArtists Meeting on Sunday, June 22, 4-6pm. Ages 18 and older.
Bring your creative work to share: songs, poems, performances, or visual works. Feel free to invite a fellow artist.
Location: the home of Jay & Janice Wood, 811 Grove Avenue, West Chicago, IL 60187
Questions? Email Janice Wood at jayjanwood@gmail.com.

Hearing God Class
2025-06-26 18:30 - 20:30
How do we hear God’s voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own subconscious? What if what God says to us is not clear?
This class will utilize the teachings and book by the late Dallas Willard – the wonderful American philosopher, known for his writings on Christian spiritual formation. Includes weekly book discussion, listening to Dallas himself via video and practicing how to experience and hear God’s voice with more confidence.
He wrote:
“Hearing God? A daring idea, some would say—presumptuous and even dangerous. But
what if we are made for it? What if the human system will not function properly without
it? There are good reasons to think it will not.
Isn’t it more presumptuous and dangerous, in fact, to undertake human existence without
hearing God?”
We’ll gather six times over the summer on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm:
June 26
July 10
July 17
July 24
Aug 7
Aug 14
Session Content:
 You Were Created for Intimate Friendship with God
 What Hearing God Is Not
 Trinitarian Fellowship
 The Still Small Voice
 Hearing God in the Context of the Kingdom of God
 Hearing God as a Life
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” – John 10:27
Being close to God means communicating with him, and this communication is a two-way street—telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing and understanding what he is saying to us. It is this second half of our conversation with God that is so important but can also be so difficult. How can you be sure God is speaking to you? The key is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator.
Hearing God is but one dimension of a richly interactive relationship, and obtaining guidance is but one facet of hearing God. This updated classic….provides rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God’s voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom. The reader will learn
that divine guidance goes beyond the anxious, sometimes neurotic, quest for “what God wants me to do,” to having a critical role in my becoming a responsible co-laborer with Him, the kind of person He expects me to be. God is inviting us to reorganize our lives in a way that keeps us walking so closely with him that it becomes easy to know his mind and hear his voice.
Sign up here.

Celebrating the Local Landscape: Gallery Reception & Artist Talk with Joel Sheesley
2025-06-27 18:30 - 20:30
Join us on Friday, June 27, 6:30-8:30pm, in RezCafe for a gallery reception and an opportunity to learn from renowned local artist and painter Joel Sheesley. Enjoy live music by harpist Hannah Muzzy and light refreshments. Invite your friends!
Joel will speak about what he has learned as he has painted landscapes in DuPage County and the surrounding area. In this illustrated talk he will offer a brief history of his artistic journey to the landscape as subject. He will discuss his painting methods, his conceptual understanding of landscape painting, and his sense of the value and meaning landscape painting offers to viewers.
Joel Sheesley is a painter whose fifty-year artistic path has embraced a variety of genres. About ten years ago he turned toward landscape painting and has been captivated by it ever since. Sheesley is professor emeritus at Wheaton College where he taught painting for 42 years. He has exhibited his work locally and nationally in galleries and museums. He recently completed artistic residencies with The Conservation Foundation, the Edith Farnsworth House, The Forest Preserve District of DuPage, and the Shirley Heinze Land Trust. Joel Sheesley’s studio and home are in Wheaton where he lives with his wife Joan.
Artist Statement:
Inherent in the idea of “landscape” is that land, an unbounded phenomenon, can be delimited. It can be sampled in discreet segments and pictured. That picturing can take many forms (I know a biologist who is a “landscape ecologist”). I’m working within the tradition of landscape painting because the picture of land that painting produces presupposes a sympathetic relationship between land and people, between a body of land and the hand of the artist. From time to time that sympathy has followed misguided paths, but the truth that people and land are interconnected remains. Whether we are aware of it or not, we all live in relation to a landscape. If in our present circumstances we begin to lose track of that relationship, painted landscapes may play a part in its restoration.
Come for the Gallery Reception, 6:30-8:30pm, on Friday, June 27. The Artist Talk will be held at 7:15pm.
Enjoy live music by harpist Hannah Muzzy from 6:30-7:15pm.
Invite your friends!
The exhibit will remain on display from June 8 to July 31 in RezCafe.

Prayer for Ecclesiastical Trial
2025-07-09 19:00 - 20:30
In light of Bishop Stewart’s ecclesiastical trial next week, we are inviting the congregation to a day of prayer and fasting this Wednesday, July 9. If you are able, we invite you to fast a meal or more and to pray for Bp. Stewart and everyone involved. We will be gathering for corporate prayer at 7pm in All Saints chapel.
You can find more background on the diocesan site here.

Meet Our New Global Partner
2025-07-13 12:00 - 13:30
On Sunday, July 13, we’ll be commissioning a new global partner at the end of service. Immediately following the 10:30 service, Saeeda will be sharing more about her new ministry in Asia. Come enjoy coffee and light snacks upstairs in the St. Gregory Room, and hear about her work. No sign up needed; just come.
Questions? Contact EmilyTalbott@churchrez.org.

Bow|Tie Sunday
2025-07-27 08:30 - 12:30
Bow|Tie Sunday, an annual feast day at Rez with deep historical roots, is on Sunday, July 27. Everyone is invited to don their best bows, ties, and bowties in the spirit of this merry occasion. Whether you’re age 2, 22, or 82, this is a unique and festive day to participate in. Look forward to the latest Bow|Tie fashions and special music on July 27.
