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Church holds ribbon cutting at Shorewood Trinity School

The sign for Trinity Christian School is seen Sunday, October 19, 2025, in Shorewood.

The Plainfield Shorewood Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for The Village Christian Church on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

The ribbon cutting took place from 4 to 4:30 p.m. at Trinity Christian School, 901 Shorewood Drive, where the Shorewood campus of The Village meets.

The Village Christian Church is a non-denominational church with multiple locations: Shorewood, Minooka, Seneca, Coal City and online, according to The Village Christian Church website.

The church began on Oct. 17, 2004, at Minooka Junior High School after a team of 20 people from First Christian Church in Morris “stepped up to start The Village after church leaders challenged youth pastor Nate Ferguson, to plant a new church, according to the website.

More than 1,000 call The village their church home, according to the website.

For more information, visit thevillagechristianchurch.com.

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Denise M. Baran-Unland

Denise M. Baran-Unland is the features editor for The Herald-News in Joliet. She covers a variety of human interest stories. She also writes the long-time weekly tribute feature “An Extraordinary Life about local people who have died. She studied journalism at the College of St. Francis in Joliet, now the University of St. Francis.