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| - New Hope Village Church was the church in Mount Prospect, IL that Rayford Steele's first wife Irene and his son Raymie had attended prior to the Rapture. It was pastored by Vernon Billings, who made a tape to inform those who have been left behind on Earth after the Rapture. Irene tried to get Rayford to go to this church, but he found it to be too challenging compared to the church he and his wife used to belong to. After the disappearance of its pastor, visiting pastor Bruce Barnes took over as its pastor, forming the Tribulation Force there with Rayford, his daughter Chloe, and news reporter Buck Williams when they became believers. Bruce also served as mentor to four young teenagers that formed the Young Tribulation Force. New Hope Village Church was later destroyed by the Wrath Of The
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| - New Hope Village Church was the church in Mount Prospect, IL that Rayford Steele's first wife Irene and his son Raymie had attended prior to the Rapture. It was pastored by Vernon Billings, who made a tape to inform those who have been left behind on Earth after the Rapture. Irene tried to get Rayford to go to this church, but he found it to be too challenging compared to the church he and his wife used to belong to. After the disappearance of its pastor, visiting pastor Bruce Barnes took over as its pastor, forming the Tribulation Force there with Rayford, his daughter Chloe, and news reporter Buck Williams when they became believers. Bruce also served as mentor to four young teenagers that formed the Young Tribulation Force. New Hope Village Church was later destroyed by the Wrath Of The Lamb earthquake that took place in "Nicolae". (In Left Behind: World At War, the church was mostly destroyed through persecution and vandalism, with only the basement still usable.) It is possible that they are either Baptist or Methodist. In the novels and the Cloud Ten Pictures films from 2000 to 2005, New Hope Village Church operated out of the suburbs of Chicago, while in the 2014 LEFT BEHIND movie it operates on Long Island, New York.
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