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Vicki Keller will never forget the first time she walked through First Congregational Church of Naperville.

The year was 1969 and Keller, now 79, had moved to Naperville from Clay Center, Nebraska, her small town of less than a thousand people. She was looking for a church to join and while she came from an Evangelical background, she looked at First Congregational Church of Naperville as an option.

“The minute I walked into that church, I had a feeling and it was warm — kind of like somebody was wrapping their arms around me,” Keller said. “Standing actually in the back of the church by the stained glass windows is where I had this feeling and I thought, ‘This is the place for me.’”

More than 50 years later, she is now leading an effort to

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