Thanks for the submissions! These are good! Definitely interested in the look of #2. We like the circle of people image...I do think we are wanting the image to say something about our location as well. Here is a link to some other examples that go more in that direction. Eventually, there will be churches of the same name in different Chicagoland cities (i.e. Westline Church Glen Ellyn, Westline Church Lombard). Love your work, hope this helps!
Thanks. Still like your first image the best, but leaning towards keeping room for city name or location imagery before the mission statement. I like how the circle created by the people in your image looks similar to the city circles on the metra map from our examples. Trying to do all of that while keeping a clean simple look is difficult. Like the faded looking of the skyline behind the text, but prefer the outline to the filled in skyline. Hope that helps.
I still like the concept. We would be interested see some more variation on the icon. What does it look like to add either a different shape to the center circle and/or the people figures. I do like the blue and the charcoal colors. Starting to prefer the text under the logo to the skyline, makes it a little busy and distracts from logo and fonts