Banner Newsletter | November/December 2022

Rev. Chris Winkler
Senior Pastor
cwinkler@barringtonumc.com
Rev. Matthew Johnson
Associate Pastor
mwhjohnson@barringtonumc.com
Rev. Wendy A. Witt
Senior Pastor
First UMC, West Dundee
wwitt@barringtonumc.com
Luis Vega
Lay Pastor
Comunidad Cristiana
lvega@barringtonumc.com
Patti Mangis
Director of Music & Worship Arts
pmangis@barringtonumc.com
Susan Acosta
Director of Family Ministries and
Noah’s Ark Christian Academy
sbrown@barringtonumc.com
Ana Kelsey-Powell
Director of Youth Ministries
akelsey-powell@barringtonumc.com
Lou Ann Gordon
Director of Finance
lgordon@barringtonumc.com
Sharon Orr
Director of Campus and
Missions Ministries
sorr@barringtonumc.com
Becky Lemna
Director of Communications
blemna@barringtonumc.com
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WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Barrington United Methodist Church
98 Algonquin Road, Barrington, IL 60010
(847) 836-5540
Office Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., Friday, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Worship online | Services are posted each week on Saturday
Enjoy weekly online worship services through our Do.Be.Live channel on Vimeo,
through our mobile app and our website, barringtonumc.com.
Worship in the Sanctuary | Sundays at 9:00 and 10:30 a.m.
Respecting the health and safety of all, masks are optional in the church building.
Sunday School is available for children ages 3 through grade 5
during both worship services.
All students, grades 6 through 12, are invited for fun conversation
and fellowship at 10:30 a.m. in the youth room.
God’s Squad meets most Sundays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Students,
grades 6 through 12, are invited to come for dinner, games, fellowship, and fun.
Got homework? Bring those assignments and projects that aren’t quite finished to
Homework Hangs from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Comunidad Cristiana | Christian Community Worship
Sundays at 2:00 p.m. | Bilingual, in-person
Trinity Center
1647 Ravine Lane, Carpentersville IL 60110
You and your neighbors are invited to join this emerging worship. Experience
Hispanic-style worship with a mix of traditional and contemporary worship elements.
Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month.
First UMC of West Dundee
318 W. Main Street, West Dundee, IL 60118
Classic Worship, Sundays at 10:00 a.m. | Online and In-person
In-person, socially distanced worship is held in the sanctuary with audio of the
service available in the parking lot through FM radio.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and
where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21
What are you willing to invest in because it brings you joy or peace or
comfort? What are you willing to support because it feeds the hungry,
visits the sick, clothes the naked and brings hope to those who are
hurting? What are you willing to risk your heart for because it changes lives for the
better—yours and the lives of others?
Over these last nine plus years I have proudly watched the people of Barrington United
Methodist Church give generously and freely to the church’s missions and ministries.
You have provided gifts to families in need; supported agricultural projects that solve
food security shortages in places around the globe; funded and worked on feeding
projects that provide meals to people in our own community; given generously to
disaster relief efforts; collected hygiene kits and provided other resources to newly
released prisoners; donated to shelters for children and mothers in crisis situations;
given funds that make their way to people who need a temporary hand up with rent or
mortgage assistance; built and repaired houses for the working poor; filled backpacks
for children who need them to excel in school; bought gift cards so teenagers in group
homes would feel remembered at Christmas and this is just a partial list of the efforts
and projects you have given your time and talent and treasure to in your support of
the missions and outreach programs of Barrington UMC.
As we come to the end of 2022 and look ahead to 2023, there is one more ministry
that we need to support and it is vital to making all of those efforts listed above
happen. We need to fully fund the operating budget of the church so that we have the
infrastructure, the staff and the facilities needed to make these things happen. For
many years we have operated under a kind of “trickle down” economic model based
on the idea that an extremely effective, vibrant and vital church would inspire people
to give enough extra to fund the operating budget—and yet we continually come up
about ten percent short.
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