Missions Week 2025

Each June, we set aside a special week to celebrate and learn how God is working through ordinary people to change the world through mission. Missionaries and speakers encourage and challenge us, and we focus on prayer for the nations.

Wednesday, June 4

Missions Confidential •  6:30pm–8:00pm, Room 108

Did you know that many of our missionaries and global partners live in places where communication can be risky? That some of our missionaries can’t be shown on camera for their own safety? For those working in “closed countries,” each day is a creative challenge to serve the Lord.

Back for another year, this event will allow you to hear stories of how God is working in the hardest places. Our friends with Call of Hope have been working in closed countries for decades and are seeing much fruit! Be encouraged and spurred on to pray. Registration is free, and light refreshments will be provided. Register HERE

Childcare is available for those who need it – please register your children separately by clicking here.

Thursday, June 5

Praying for the Nations  • Room 107, 10:00am
Join us in prayer for the world, led by our Missionary Prayer Fellowship. Hear directly from some of our missionaries! Lunch will be provided afterwards.

Saturday, June 7

Men’s Prayer and Praise  • Room 103, 7:30am

All men are invited for a time of prayer and praise to the Lord! Hear from our missionaries and pray for them together, supporting each other as brothers in Christ.

Sunday, June 8

Sunday Morning Service
Pastor Philip Miller

Missionaries and Missions Partners in TMC Communities • 8:30am & 11:30am, various classrooms

Click here to view the schedule of speakers in communities. All are welcome to attend!

John’s story is eclectic. Starting out as a professional singer-songwriter, he now works as an author, speaker, historian, and media presenter. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Public Christianity (2007-17). He has published over 20 books, two of which became television documentaries, with a third, For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than you Ever Imagined, released in Australian cinemas in June 2018.

John has held a variety of teaching and research positions before moving to Wheaton College, including in the Ancient History Department at Macquarie University (2002-2015), the Hebrew, Jewish and Biblical Studies Department at Sydney University (2011-2021), Ridley College Melbourne (2019-2022), and the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford (2015-2023). A busy public speaker, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife Elizabeth and the youngest of their three children.