Welcome Nancy Beach!

Nancy Beach is now blogging. For those of you who aren't familiar with Nancy, she is the programming director at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. She is incredibly creative, insightful and a great leader. Here's a short bio:

Nancy has always been a passionate champion for artists in the local church. For over 20 years she served as the Programming Director for Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago, building a community of artists who sought to create transformational moments in Sunday morning church services. Currently, Nancy is the Executive Vice President for the Arts at the Willow Creek Association, focusing full time on serving arts leaders and their teams in the U.S. and in several other countries. Nancy serves as a teaching pastor at her home church, and also uses her teaching gifts to cast vision at conferences. In her book, The Hour on Sunday, Nancy expresses the core vision and values which she believes are foundational to any effective arts ministry.

Nancy and her husband Warren live in Barrington with their two teenage daughters and a cat named Elphaba.