2025 National Old Paths Conference

The Old Paths Church Growth Conference is hosted annually by Northwest Bible Baptist Church in Elgin, IL, pastored by Pastor Phil Cavanaugh.

Northwest Bible Baptist Church and its ministries are extensive and include its own Academy, Providence Baptist College, Kyte River Revival Campgrounds (Rochelle, IL), as well as extensive Sunday school, bus, nursing home, and soulwinning ministries, and a Spanish department just to name a few. It hosts this annual National Old Paths Church Growth Conference, a National Youth Conference and a Missions Conference.

In its present 16-acre location in the beautiful rolling countryside on Nesler Road in rural Elgin, Illinois, Northwest Bible Baptist Church continues to expand its ministries with new outreaches that broaden with the horizon of Pastor Cavanaugh's vision – all with the same right-living zeal and soulwinning passion that have served as its guiding themes over the years. The church, a gospel lighthouse all over Chicago’s northwestern suburbs, now launches lifeboats for disadvantaged children with thirteen bus routes; for nursing home residents in eight locations; for thousands of homes in need of Christ; for hundreds of young men in two prisons; for Spanish-speaking folks with a distinct Spanish Department; and for the lost on over seventy home and foreign mission fields. Church members from ten different soul-winning groups rescue the perishing every day of the week. Preaching with zeal and fire from God’s Bible blueprint, Pastor Cavanaugh has a vision to build this lighthouse that sheds its bright beam from Elgin to Rockford to Aurora to Chicago and every outlying region within reach.