The Gideon Connection

06/19/2026

06/15/2026

Gideon’s fellowship on Pastor & First Lady Ivy’s 5th Pastoral Anniversary at Shiloh, with First Corinthian, First Baptist Lake Forest, Pleasant Grove, GrandMa Boys of Mt. Zion Waukegan, other community churches and leaders. “What a Fellowship…” 6/14/26

Photo Credit: (always the best)

06/14/2026

United Church Usher’s League honoring Sis. Maggie Banks.

Congratulation. Well deserved.

06/07/2026

Congratulations to Pastor and 1st Lady Hill. Pray for the preacher.

03/16/2026

March Gladness Series: The Joy of Worshipping God in God’s House

Sunday, March 15th message
Psalm 100:1-5
“Don’t Lose Your Song”

It has always been the enemy’s desire to use circumstances in life to imprison and silence the voices of God’s people. If we don’t use our voice to praise God, the enemy wins. The key to winning over the enemy is to keep singing, preaching, and praising, even in circumstances of life.

We can keep singing when we leave our circumstances at the door and enter into God’s presence to recognize God’s character, when we know we belong to the compassionate God, and when we show that we are grateful for God’s constant faithfulness. When we recognize His character, compassion, and constancy, we stop talking about how big our circumstances are and start telling our circumstances how big our God is, admitting we have problems, but our problem solver is bigger; we have burdens, but our burden bearer is bigger; we have aches and pains, but our healer is bigger.

When we make our gratitude to God larger and louder than the complaints of our problems, we enter with thanksgiving and praise, and we enter to bless His name, using our voice to say the Lord is good (that’s His character), His mercy is everlasting (that’s His compassion), and His truth endures to all generations (and that’s His constant faithfulness). If we keep singing, we will not lose our songs of praise.

Dr. Wade A. Stevenson, Pastor
GMBC






Photo credit: Lucille Smith Harper

03/13/2026

Great fellowship and worship experiences with Mt. Zion, Zion (message: “Keep Going” Acts 2:40-47) on Sunday, and New Greater Faith, Beach Park (lecture: “The Shift” Isaiah 43:16-19) on Wednesday. Thank God for the visionary leadership of the pastors serving our sister churches.

**Photo credit: Lady Vonnie Tillery, NGFCB**
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Upcoming fellowship opportunities:

—Maundy Thursday Service, at Gideon, April 2nd, @7 p.m. - Shiloh, Waukegan, and Pastor Ivy will be our guests.

—North Shore Ministers’ Alliance Good Friday Service, April 3rd, @12 noon at Shiloh.

—Gideon’s Men’s fella-‘ship’ breakfast, Saturday, April 4th, @9 a.m. at Golden Corral, Gurnee (sign up at Gideon and show up for a free breakfast).

—Gideon’s 104th Church Anniversary snd Homecoming Celebration, Sunday, April 26th, @10:45 a.m. fellowship meet-and-greet with Gideon’s new and current members, .m.

Psalm 133:1


Dr. Wade A. Stevenson, Pastor
GMBC

01/25/2026

**This is an update at 6:00 this morning to the message from 8:00 last night.**

**Snowy conditions will continue from 6AM-10AM, with only about 1-2” of accumulation. Between 9:30 and 10am, the temperature will be 16 degrees.**

Therefore,
Gideon will be on time and on schedule for Education Hour at 9:30am and worship at 10:45am (today), Sunday, January 25th, for those who can safely make it out. Plan for an early start and dress warmly.

See you in worship!

01/22/2026

Financial Workshop scheduled for Saturday, January 24th is CANCELLED.
Spread the word. Stay warm.

01/19/2026

Waukegan Township Dr. Martin Luther King Dreamers’ Breakfast
Rev. Milton Brunson’s Thompson Community Singers
Former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.