Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in West Englewood where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Pastor J has a degree in Architecture, a Masters in Teaching, and a Master of Divinity Degree with an emphasis in Christian Community Development. He has served as a mentor, a musician, an adjunct professor, and the Director for Mission Year in Chicago. Jonathan has a deep desire to invest in the community where he grew up. Through various community partnerships Canaan Community Church provides youth development, holistic help options, college scholarships, art and music training, and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in Englewood and other Chicago communities. Pastor J is a sought after speaker, writer, and artist. His first book Church Forsaken will be released in the spring.
Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in West Englewood where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Pastor J has a degree in Architecture, a Masters in Teaching, and a Master of Divinity Degree with an emphasis in Christian Community Development. He has served as a mentor, a musician, an adjunct professor, and the Director for Mission Year in Chicago. Jonathan has a deep desire to invest in the community where he grew up. Through various community partnerships Canaan Community Church provides youth development, holistic help options, college scholarships, art and music training, and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in Englewood and other Chicago communities. Pastor J is a sought after speaker, writer, and artist. His first book Church Forsaken will be released in the spring.
Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in West Englewood where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Pastor J has a degree in Architecture, a Masters in Teaching, and a Master of Divinity Degree with an emphasis in Christian Community Development. He has served as a mentor, a musician, an adjunct professor, and the Director for Mission Year in Chicago. Jonathan has a deep desire to invest in the community where he grew up. Through various community partnerships Canaan Community Church provides youth development, holistic help options, college scholarships, art and music training, and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in Englewood and other Chicago communities. Pastor J is a sought after speaker, writer, and artist. His first book Church Forsaken will be released in the spring.
Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in West Englewood where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Pastor J has a degree in Architecture, a Masters in Teaching, and a Master of Divinity Degree with an emphasis in Christian Community Development. He has served as a mentor, a musician, an adjunct professor, and the Director for Mission Year in Chicago. Jonathan has a deep desire to invest in the community where he grew up. Through various community partnerships Canaan Community Church provides youth development, holistic help options, college scholarships, art and music training, and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in Englewood and other Chicago communities. Pastor J is a sought after speaker, writer, and artist. His first book Church Forsaken will be released in the spring.
Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in West Englewood where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Pastor J has a degree in Architecture, a Masters in Teaching, and a Master of Divinity Degree with an emphasis in Christian Community Development. He has served as a mentor, a musician, an adjunct professor, and the Director for Mission Year in Chicago. Jonathan has a deep desire to invest in the community where he grew up. Through various community partnerships Canaan Community Church provides youth development, holistic help options, college scholarships, art and music training, and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in Englewood and other Chicago communities. Pastor J is a sought after speaker, writer, and artist. His first book Church Forsaken will be released in the spring.
David Bennett is a Fellow at the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics and has recently completed his postgraduate diploma in theology at the University of Oxford as well as his Masters in Analytical and Exegetical Theology at the University of St. Andrews. He is currently reading for his doctorate in Theology at Oxford University. David is a passionate Christian apologist who speaks and writes on a wide range of topics including sexuality and faith. He is currently working on a book entitled A War of Loves set to release in November.
Lina Abujamra is the founder of Living with Power Ministries. She is a pediatric emergency room doctor by profession and is passionate about empowering people with biblical truth. Lina is a popular Bible teacher, blogger, conference speaker and the author of three books. She hosts weekly podcasts and a daily Morning Minutes devotional and is engaged in providing medical care for Syrian refugees in the Middle East. You can hear Lina on Moody Radio hosting Today’s Single Christian and find her boosting your faith all over social media.
Kevin Cloud is a Pastor, Church Planter and the author of God and Hamilton: Spiritual Themes from the Life of Alexander Hamilton and the Broadway Musical He Inspired. He is a lifelong musician with a bachelors degree in music and a Masters of Divinity degree. He currently serves as Pastor at Midwest Fellowship in Kansas City where he lives with his wife, Allison, and their four sons. When Kevin walked out of the Richard Rogers Theatre, after seeing Hamilton in New York City, he knew that he had experienced something transcendent, something spiritual, something that drew him into the presence of God. Today, we are invited into this journey as we consider God and Hamilton…