That phrase was part of the Bill of Congress signed by Teddy Roosevelt on February 28, 1903. It stated simply, “A Bill of Congress to create a Union Station and for other purposes.” It’s that last phrase, and for other purposes, that jumped off the page and into my spirit. Nearly a hundred years after that bill passed, Union Station started serving God’s purposes through the ministry of National Community Church. Roosevelt thought he was building a train station. He had no idea that he was building a church — a church with a mass transportation system, parking garage, and forty-restaurant food
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