Dr. and Mrs. Phil Wood have been with the
congregation since the inaugural service on Easter Sunday, 1991. Previous to
that he served several years on the pastoral staff of Bethel Baptist Church in
Schaumburg, Illinois. The Woods have four children (Joshua, Brittany, Brooke,
and Jeremy). Their oldest son is enrolled as a freshman math major at Liberty
University in Lynchburg, Virginia; the girls are at Wheaton Academy and Jay
Stream Middle School; and their youngest son is home-schooled. Penne is a
committed homemaker and actively leads the ladies' ministry at the church. She
is a graduate of Bob Jones University, is certified as a secondary education
math and science teacher, and has taught at Southside Christian School in
Greenville, South Carolina, Schaumburg Christian School and Medinah Christian.
Currently she tutors home-bound students for Glenbard North High
School. Pastor Phil graduated with a Doctor of Ministry from Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is from the
Chicago area and during the past 25 years has worked on church staffs in
Florida, Wyoming, and, of course, Illinois. His burden is for a congregation
that is building up one another in the church and, in turn, reaching outside the
church to Northern DuPage County and around the world with the Gospel of Jesus
Christ.
