Heather Larson stood before the congregation in August at Willow Creek Community Church's main campus in Chicago's northwest suburbs, as the church gathered for a weeknight “family meeting.”
She recalled a similar meeting, less than a year earlier, when she had stood on the same stage to announce very different plans: Founding pastor Bill Hybels would be retiring, and Larson would take over as lead pastor. Her colleague, Steve Carter, would become the lead teaching pastor. Hybels would coach them through the transition.
“Things have really changed,” she said.
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