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1971

In 1971, Hybels was a youth pastor in Chicago when he started a worship service called "Son City." The service targeted young people by using contemporary music and language, skits, and multimedia, virtually unprecedented innovations for a church at the time.

1975

Incorporating contemporary music, drama, and multimedia technology, the new congregation first met on October 12, 1975, in Palatine's Willow Creek Theater.

In 1975 leaders of Son City, a successful youth program at Park Ridge's South Park Church, decided to create a new ministry for unchurched adults.

In 1975, he and his leadership team opened a new church, naming it after the space they rented: Willow Creek Theater in Palatine, a residential suburb of Chicago.

1995

In 1995, he began the Global Leadership Summit, an annual training event for hundreds of thousands of ministry leaders.

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