News & Events
First Easter
The very first Easter was not in a crowded worship space with singing and praising. On the very first Easter, the disciples were locked in their house. It was dangerous for them to come out. They were afraid. They were living in a time of such despair and such fear....
Jim Croegaert & Friends in Concert
Reba Place Church Meetinghouse 620 W. Madison Street Evanston IL 60202(View Map) A freewill offering for Christ in the Wilderness Retreat Center, Stockton, Illinois (CITWRetreat.com) will be taken.
Jim Croegaert at Sing Me High Music Festival
I will be appearing this Saturday, August 25, at the Sing Me High Music Festival in Virginia. I will have one set and Reunion Vocal Band will have a set. I have of course been part of RVB since its inception and it includes many of my favorite musicians,...
Jim Croegaert in Concert
Songs to Remind, Songs to Remember 10:30 AM, May 27, 2018, at: New Covenant Fellowship 124 W. White St. Champaign IL 61820 Website Info: ncf-cu.com Phone: (217) 355-2038
Tim Slevin – What I Remember
Introduction I met Tim as a high school freshman at Spalding Institute in Peoria, 1960. He possessed many important attributes, not the least of which was being able to mimic some very distinctive persons, notably our principal, Father Brown, as well as certain...
Benefit Concert for Friends of Habiba
Jim Croegaert and friends will perform a benefit concert for friends of Habiba - Bringing her family from Darfur to safety - on Saturday October 19, 2013 at Reba Place Church, 7:30 PM. Location 620 Madison St. (Corner of Custer, near Main St. El) in Evanston, IL - see...
Oklahoma
I wrote a song while serving with the Red Cross in Oklahoma in June, 2013 and recorded it recently. Tim Serban heads up Disaster Spiritual Care for the Red Cross and he put mine and others' photos with it, and posted it to YouTube. I've included the lyrics here as...
Vanguard Spiritual Services event
We will be presenting for Vanguard chaplains October 26, 2011, at West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park, IL.
With RVB at Laurelville
Janalee and I with our Reunion Vocal Band friends at Laurelville Mennonite Church Camp in Mt. Pleasant PA October 21-23, 2011.
Alabama Skies
An article on Spiritual Development called Alabama Narrative by Jim Croegaert appears in this months special disaster relief issue of PlainViews, a newsletter of the Health Care Chaplaincy, an organization leading in the research, education and practice of...
Tearing
- Jim Croegaert How can the sky turn against us like this? And send forth such Furies tearing holes in the world tearing holes in our fragile world? Tearing Roof from home Tearing Home from foundation Tearing Tree from earth Tearing Child from mother’s arms Tearing...
Final Alabama Update
Tomorrow I will fly home. None too soon. I am very proud of the work done by our group of chaplains here. But ready to go home, and leaving things in good hands here. Did sing my "Blessing" song this a.m. for our Headquarters morning meeting, which was well received,...