Headquarters have moved from Alameda, CA to Chicago.
They now have a huge Acts 2 Training Center at 1000 N Randall Road, in Elgin, Illinois, suburbs of Chicago.
I wonder how much they paid for that building. Did they sell their buildings in Alameda?
I'm sure this is a huge change for everyone inside Acts 2. Now they all get to travel to Chicago for their all teams retreats and trainings/indoctrination.
I have mixed feelings.
I feel sad that it'll be easier for them to distance themselves from the Gracepoint and Berkland name, hide their roots even more intentionally.
I feel sad for all those who moved, who didn't really want to, but felt forced to. But then again, moving inside this organization isn't exactly like moving when you're outside of it.
One of my biggest requests is moving every year during college because I was assigned to live with certain people. I wish I continued to live in that one apartment I was living in during sophomore year. Close to campus, super cheap rent. Instead, I just kept moving further and further for more and more money. Just because someone in the organization decided that it would be best for me to live with so and so. UGH. It really was the worst. Why was I so blind to it? Oh yeah, I thought that's what God wanted me to do. Hard to fight the will of God when you decided to have him be the Lord of your life.
If you're in this organization now and are reading this, please please please don't let them decide where you live and who you live with. Once you give that over, it's really hard to get out.
