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