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Our<br />
Father,<br />
who art in heaven,<br />
hallowed<br />
be<br />
thy<br />
name<br />
B BA AN N NE ER R N NE EWWS SL LE ET T TE ER<br />
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February <strong>April</strong> <strong>2020</strong>
Rev. Chris Winkler<br />
Senior Pastor<br />
cwinkler@barringtonumc.com<br />
Rev. Matthew Johnson<br />
Associate Pastor<br />
mwhjohnson@barringtonumc.com<br />
Rev. Wendy A. Witt<br />
Senior Pastor<br />
First UMC, West Dundee<br />
wwitt@barringtonumc.com<br />
Pastor Bonnie Bevers<br />
Director of Youth Ministries<br />
bbevers@barringtonumc.com<br />
Luis Vega<br />
Lay Pastor<br />
Comunidad Cristiana<br />
lvega@barringtonumc.com<br />
Susan Brown<br />
Director of Family Ministries and<br />
Noah’s Ark Christian Academy<br />
sbrown@barringtonumc.com<br />
Lynne Richardson<br />
Director of Finance<br />
lrichardson@barringtonumc.com<br />
Sharon Orr<br />
Director of Campus and<br />
Missions Ministries<br />
sorr@barringtonumc.com<br />
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WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES<br />
For the health and safety of our collective community, all in-person<br />
gatherings have been suspended at both campuses until further notice.<br />
An online worship service can be viewed each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on the<br />
Barrington UMC and First UMC websites along with their respective<br />
Facebook pages. If you wish to receive weekly email communications,<br />
please contact communications@barringtonumc.com for Barrington UMC and<br />
sorr@barringtonumc.com for First UMC updates.<br />
Barrington United Methodist Church<br />
98 Algonquin Road, Barrington, IL 60010<br />
(847) 836-5540<br />
Chapel Worship, Sundays at 8:00 a.m. | Suspended<br />
You are invited to be a part of this welcoming, caring community that worships<br />
God in an intimate setting. Essential elements of this service include a time of<br />
gathering, liturgy, hymns, sermon and a sending forth into the world to live our faith.<br />
Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month.<br />
Classic Worship, Sundays at 9:30 a.m. | Online Only<br />
Please join us in the soaring, light-filled Sanctuary for this more formal worship<br />
experience. Essential elements of this service include a mix of traditional and current<br />
hymns, liturgy, organ and choir, sermon and a time for children every Sunday.<br />
Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month.<br />
Crossroads Worship, Sundays at 11:00 a.m. | Suspended<br />
There is a place for you in this casual, compelling worship service. The relaxed<br />
atmosphere invites us to interpret scripture in today’s context with challenging<br />
questions, a variety of musical genres and an open, interactive format. Communion is<br />
celebrated regularly.<br />
Comunidad Cristiana | Christian Community Worship, Sundays at 4:00 p.m.<br />
1647 Ravine Lane, Carpentersville, IL 60110 | Suspended<br />
You and your neighbors are invited to join this emerging worship. A welcoming,<br />
caring community shares worship and a delicious meal on Sunday evenings.<br />
Experience Hispanic-style worship offered bilingually with a mix of traditional and<br />
contemporary worship elements. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of<br />
every month.<br />
First UMC of West Dundee<br />
318 W. Main Street, West Dundee, IL 60118<br />
Classic Worship, Sundays at 10:00 a.m. | Online Only at 9:30 a.m.<br />
All are invited to experience this multi-generational blended worship service,<br />
which incorporates traditional worship elements like hymns and liturgy with<br />
more contemporary elements like thematic altar displays, video and occasional<br />
contemporary music selections. There are scripture lessons, a sermon and a time for<br />
children every Sunday. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month.<br />
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When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the<br />
doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear<br />
of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be<br />
with you.” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side.<br />
Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to<br />
them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send<br />
you.” 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,<br />
“Receive the Holy Spirit.” (John 20:19-22)<br />
It was a Sunday—the first Easter Sunday to be precise—and according<br />
to the Gospel of John, Jesus’ closest followers had locked themselves in a house<br />
out of fear. We know something of the fear those disciples were experiencing,<br />
don’t we? On a very basic and fundamental level, they feared for their lives<br />
and their safety. On a more spiritual level, they feared the unknown, what the<br />
future would bring, what they were supposed to do next. In that moment, Jesus<br />
appeared among them and said simply and powerfully, “Peace be with you.” John<br />
intimates that the door remained locked and yet, Jesus was with them anyway. It<br />
is, perhaps, a poignant and powerful statement about the power of Jesus to break<br />
through barriers, especially for those of us who are experiencing something<br />
called “social distancing” or “shelter-in-place”—terms and conditions most of<br />
us had never heard of before the COVID-19 virus disrupted our world and most<br />
everything we understood about it.<br />
When John tells us that Jesus stood among them and showed them his hands and<br />
his side, I don’t think he was merely showing off his scars in order to prove it was<br />
him. Rather, he was doing something intentional and important. By showing them<br />
the places where they had driven nails through him and where soldiers had pierced<br />
his side with a sword, he was reminding them that he had suffered and died for<br />
them, that he had borne their sins and their sorrows and that he had overcome<br />
every enemy that seeks to destroy life—and that he had risen from the dead.<br />
I think this can be an important story for us. We are physically and metaphorically<br />
locked in our houses, and the fear we are feeling is real. As I write this letter to<br />
you, three of our own members have tested positive for the Coronavirus, and<br />
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many more of us have family members and friends who have been exposed. But<br />
Jesus is among us, he promised he would be when he said:<br />
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“I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while<br />
the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live,<br />
you also will live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father,<br />
and you in me, and I in you. 21 They who have my commandments and<br />
keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be<br />
loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”<br />
(John 14:18-21)<br />
Friends, there is no better time than this to remember that we are first and<br />
foremost Easter People. We believe in the power of love over every other power<br />
in the world, and that includes insidious diseases. We believe that our God is a<br />
God of hope and new life. As we navigate through these difficult times, let us take<br />
our lead from the Risen One who promised that we would all be together again.<br />
In the meantime, “Peace be with you! Receive the power of the Holy Spirit.” We<br />
will emerge from this as an even more compassionate people because of this<br />
experience. That is the promise of Easter. Thanks be to God!<br />
Journey with us through Holy Week<br />
Palm Sunday | Online worship at 9:30 a.m., <strong>April</strong> 5<br />
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Imagine together the excitement of the disciples’ entrance into Jerusalem. Experience their<br />
surprise when Jesus and event are not what they expected. What now?<br />
Apart together, we will share a ritual action of the entrance to the city. Palms will be available<br />
on the portico of BUMC at the end of the week. Using safe social distancing, families can take<br />
enough for their worship space. We ask that you also drop off personal care items for FISH<br />
Food Pantry while you are there. Soap, shampoo, lotions, toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors<br />
and shaving cream are all especially requested.<br />
If you prefer not to leave your home, you may participate using local foliage (that’s what palms<br />
were) or a towel to represent the cloaks laid down in Jesus’ path.<br />
Maundy Thursday: Making Bread Together | Online at 7:00 p.m., <strong>April</strong> 9<br />
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Add one part YouTube Cooking Show, three scripture readings, and two prayers,<br />
then mix with a generous portion of organ performance, and you get this year’s<br />
online Maundy Thursday experience.<br />
Pastor Matthew and his family invite you to gather in your kitchens, watch, and<br />
join in making a traditional communion bread to share at your table on this holy<br />
night. The simple recipe makes a hearty and wholesome bread that is inspired<br />
by those made by the monks of The Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers,<br />
Georgia. After we enjoy the shared experience of making the bread, there will be<br />
time to hear from our sacred scriptures, pray, meditate on musical offerings by<br />
organist Michael Rees, and silently smell the fragrance of it while it bakes.<br />
Monastery of the Holy Spirit Altar Bread<br />
2 cups whole wheat flour<br />
(white flour works okay, too)<br />
2 tsp DOUBLE ACTING baking<br />
powder (or 4 tsp of single<br />
acting baking powder)<br />
2 tsp salt<br />
1/3 cup water<br />
1/3 cup milk<br />
1/3 cup honey<br />
1/3 cup vegetable oil<br />
Makes three, 6” bread rounds<br />
Rev. Chris Winkler<br />
Good Friday | Online worship at 7:00 p.m., <strong>April</strong> 10<br />
Be transported with Mary to the foot of the Cross in a twenty-minute audio experience<br />
including moving music, Mary’s story and a brief reflection. Choose an atmosphere that allows<br />
you to fully engage the powerful emotions of the event and join us on the journey to Easter.<br />
The<br />
Lord’s<br />
Prayer<br />
We know it so well, we don’t know it at all.<br />
celebrate<br />
SERMON SERIES BEGINNING SUNDAY, APRIL 19<br />
Following Easter, we will take a deep dive into the form, structure and life<br />
lessons of the Lord’s Prayer. We will spend six weeks examining the weighty<br />
messages carried in each line and how very significant our prayer lives can be.<br />
visit barringtonumc.com and fumcwd.org<br />
Gather online to celebrate the joy and hope of Easter!<br />
Online worship at 9:30 a.m., <strong>April</strong> 12<br />
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LOCAL MISSION PARTNER UPDATES<br />
We have compiled an update on our local mission partners who are maintaining essential<br />
services for people who need them now even more than ever. Here’s what they are doing and<br />
how you can help:<br />
FISH Food Pantry<br />
The food pantry is an essential service and must continue operations throughout this time<br />
period. They have moved to a no-touch system in which clients sign-in outside the front<br />
door and wait in their cars until they are called on their cell phone to drive up to the side<br />
door and receive their pre-packed boxes. Between 8 and 10 a.m., volunteers fill the boxes<br />
according to a fixed list. There is a second box for larger households.<br />
How can I help?<br />
• If you are young and have no underlying are emptied as they are now, the stores have<br />
conditions and live in a household where little to send.<br />
no one is a vulnerable individual, consider<br />
• If you prefer to shop (or clean a closet or<br />
going to the FISH website (www.fish-foodpantry.org/volunteer)<br />
and signing up to be<br />
two), please provide hygiene items – soap,<br />
shampoo, toothpaste and brushes, wipes and<br />
a reserve volunteer – saying that you could<br />
diapers. These items are essential and not<br />
be called to come in if they need you.<br />
available from the Food Bank. At Barrington<br />
• Make a monetary donation so that FISH (or UMC, we have moved our Food Pantry<br />
another local food pantry) can purchase donation bins outside onto the portico so<br />
food from the Northern Illinois Food Bank. that you can safely drop items off at any time.<br />
Normally food banks rely on donations from We will make sure they are delivered to FISH<br />
local grocery stores, but when store shelves during their business hours.<br />
Community Crisis Center<br />
The Crisis Center is a 40-bed emergency shelter for women and their children.<br />
How can I help?<br />
Please be in prayer for anyone in an abusive relationship during this time. Anxiety and<br />
stress are often triggers for abuse. Please pray for the abuser as well as for the victims.<br />
And, if you have a relationship with any domestic violence shelter, please check in to see<br />
what they need.<br />
Meals with Wheels<br />
Meals with Wheels has changed their procedures to ensure that volunteers can safely<br />
deliver hot meals to the homebound without endangering themselves or the clients.<br />
When volunteers arrive for their routes, the on-site crew will bring the meals out to<br />
your vehicle. Clients and their families have been notified to have a cooler on their<br />
front porch to receive the meals. Delivery volunteers will leave the meals in the<br />
cooler, ring the doorbell and remove to a safe distance. For everyone’s safety this will<br />
be a no-contact operation.<br />
How can I help?<br />
First, we want to give a big thank to the new volunteers who have stepped up to join<br />
the BUMC team! As above, if you are young and have no underlying conditions and<br />
live in a household where no one is a vulnerable individual, consider letting Carolyn<br />
Schneider (847)438-3148 know that you are willing to join her reserve corp. She will<br />
call you if our team is short-handed or if our team needs to pick up additional routes<br />
to make sure everyone receives their meals.<br />
PADS of Elgin<br />
Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS) of Elgin provides safe shelter, comprehensive<br />
case management and advocacy to homeless men, women and families in northern Kane<br />
County and Hanover and Dundee Townships. They house between 45 and 70 individuals,<br />
including women and children, on any given night.<br />
PADS in Elgin has its own dedicated space and has notified us that they have changed<br />
their procedures to stay open 24/7 during this time period. They are relying on everyone<br />
who has committed to provide a meal to provide it, but volunteers will no longer enter<br />
the shelter. A staff member will meet you at the door to receive any deliveries.<br />
How can I help?<br />
PADS has put out a request for hand soap, washcloths, 8-ounce cups and paper bowls.<br />
Additional food, especially for snacking, would always be welcome. A general needs list<br />
can be found at: padsofelgin.org/needs<br />
The Crisis Center has asked for diapers (the largest size is generally preferable) and hygiene<br />
items including those specifically for women. There is never access to this facility, call the<br />
receptionist and let them know that you are there to drop off items at the front door. A list<br />
of their greatest needs can be found at: crisiscenter.org/pdfs/GreatestNeeds.pdf<br />
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LOCAL MISSION PARTNER UPDATES<br />
ChildServ<br />
ChildServ maintains three group homes in DuPage County. The teens living there are<br />
out of school and stuck at home as are all of our own children, grandchildren, nieces<br />
and nephews.<br />
How can I help?<br />
The Group Homes team has requested 15 digital forehead thermometers. Any brand<br />
is acceptable, these are very hard to come by at the moment.<br />
The team has also requested any of the following:<br />
Taboo, Pictionary, Apples to Apples, 5 Second Rule, Connect 4, Paint, Paint brushes<br />
(various sizes), Canvases, Sponges, Kits for making bracelets, and Beads<br />
They can be shipped directly to:<br />
ChildServ<br />
1260 Iroquois, Suite 102<br />
Naperville, IL 60563<br />
ATTN: Shenekia Stimage<br />
or if you would like to drop off items at our door, please email them at info@childserv.org,<br />
and the program director or a supervisor will meet you and say thank you from a safe<br />
6-foot-distance, as per the CDC recommendations.<br />
Kids Hope Celebration<br />
On February 29, this group of Kids Hope mentors was privileged to join over two<br />
hundred others in the western suburbs for a training conference. Some of us heard<br />
from child therapist Trish Jonker about working with traumatized children. Fellow<br />
mentors led conversations about how to handle differences in ethnic and racial lived<br />
experiences. There were sections on how to use art to open conversation and on the<br />
impact of poverty on childhood and families. There was an opportunity to discuss the<br />
role of prayer in our program and another one to look at mentoring resources available<br />
to us online. In addition to all the learning, it was a great day to celebrate all the good<br />
that KidsHopeUSA and the mentoring program can do in the lives of children.<br />
Connecting Small Groups<br />
Facetime, What’s App, Zoom, Skype, there are<br />
many ways to see the person on the other end of<br />
the phone line. Google Hangouts Meet or Google<br />
Meet is the tool that we are recommending for our<br />
small groups and work teams. First reason, because<br />
it is the tool that the staff already uses and we<br />
can most easily help everyone to access. Second<br />
reason, because no one is excluded by device<br />
or ecosystem.<br />
What can we do together? Groups can<br />
hold conference meetings by phone or by<br />
videoconference. Pre-meeting documents and<br />
meeting codes can be sent with the meeting<br />
invitation. Members can see who plans to attend<br />
and who is in attendance. And presentations can<br />
be shown from a separate screen of anyone using a<br />
Gmail account.<br />
Who could use this? Any small group – for Bible<br />
or book studies, for friendship and connection, for<br />
committee meetings.<br />
What do group members need to participate?<br />
If you already have a Gmail account, you can click<br />
on the teleconference link to join the meeting and<br />
it will attempt to turn your computer’s camera and<br />
microphone on, which you will have to agree to.<br />
Then you can see everyone, note who has unmuted<br />
to speak, send a message to everyone on the call,<br />
and view any presentations on the screen. There is<br />
a close caption option that works very well.<br />
If you have a Gmail account and you are away<br />
from your computer, you can teleconference from<br />
your phone by downloading the ‘Meet’ app from<br />
your app store. The icons are the same as on your<br />
computer, your phone camera may be higher def,<br />
and you can use your computer to view documents<br />
while in the meeting.<br />
If you don’t have a Gmail account, you are invited<br />
to a phone conference. The key tool here is to<br />
know that pressing *6 on your keypad both mutes<br />
and unmutes your phone.<br />
If you don’t have a Gmail account and find not<br />
seeing faces or presentations frustrating, Gmail<br />
accounts are free and you can get one with a very<br />
few clicks. You’ll need to let your meeting leaders<br />
know about your new email, and you’ll need to<br />
check it for invitations, don’t feel excluded—join in!<br />
What do group leaders need to know?<br />
Anyone in your group can set up your meeting from<br />
Google calendar with an @barringtonumc.com<br />
address. They will need a list of emails to be invited,<br />
the time, date and details to go in the invitation and<br />
any attachments to go to the participants.<br />
If no one in your group has an barringtonumc.com<br />
address, you can send the same information<br />
referenced above to Elizabeth Schule or Paula<br />
Gordon to calendar your meeting. One of us will<br />
need to sit in for the first few minutes to ‘allow<br />
guests’ if anyone without a Gmail has a hiccup<br />
joining the meeting.<br />
What if my group isn’t ‘official’?<br />
We are happy to support small groups within<br />
our congregations. Create your group offline and<br />
then advise us of its connection, its members<br />
and its leader. Email one of the pastors or<br />
communications@barringtonumc.com.<br />
CHURCH<br />
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TREE OF LIFE<br />
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He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” 6 Then<br />
he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves,<br />
and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to<br />
distribute; and they distributed them to the crowd. 7 They had also a few small<br />
fish; and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be distributed.<br />
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They ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven<br />
baskets full. ~Mark 8:5-8<br />
Your gift can make a difference –<br />
help Tree of Life fund the matching grant<br />
Oglala Lakota County (inside the Pine Ridge Reservation) and Todd County<br />
(inside the Rosebud Reservation) are the 1st and 3rd poorest counties within the<br />
50 states. Only on the islands of Puerto Rico and American Samoa do people<br />
have a lower per capita income.<br />
Linda Garriott and her team at Tree of Life are truly making a difference. Their<br />
soup kitchen, thrift shop and support services reach members of the Rosebud<br />
community living between 40 and 70 miles away in every direction. It can take<br />
between an hour and an hour and a half to reach the last person served at the<br />
end of their meal delivery routes.<br />
Our adult mission team is scheduled for a second trip to Tree of Life this June.<br />
Linda has several projects already lined up for the team. As of March 20, Tree of<br />
Life’s soup kitchen and thrift shop operations are shut down for 15 days. Instead,<br />
Linda’s team spent the day helping to deliver 5,000 meals to youth who are out<br />
of school. She was tired but ready to get out and help again next week, and again<br />
the week after that… Those of us who met her last spring or on the 2018 mission<br />
trip know that her tireless energy, deep faith and thoughtful concern for her<br />
neighbors make her a wonderful leader for this agency.<br />
When Linda visited Barrington UMC in 2019, she was deeply involved<br />
in planning a new soup kitchen. Her dream was not only to feed<br />
more people but to be able to teach and build self-reliance.<br />
The new kitchen would be attached to a teaching garden and a<br />
greenhouse, both growing native plants that will thrive in South<br />
Dakota. The harvest would be brought into the kitchen where folks<br />
Tree of Life Ministry is a part of the working hands and feet of God to the Lakota Nation residing on the<br />
Rosebud Reservation serving body, mind, and soul. We feed, cloth, shelter, and love. We demonstrate His love,<br />
power, and grace to a broken, hurting society.<br />
could learn how to can and preserve foods for<br />
themselves.<br />
The new kitchen would also be optimized to<br />
prepare meals for delivery. This is important<br />
to prepare for a future that will include<br />
significantly reduced food subsidies. Planning<br />
began three years ago to be able to provide the<br />
local safety net that would be required as food<br />
assistance for welfare, and low-income families are reduced significantly over<br />
the next decade. As we discussed these plans, the question was always: “How will<br />
you pay for it?” Linda’s answer: “God will make a way.”<br />
This past Fall, as we began to make mission trip arrangements, she was so<br />
excited to let us know that there will be a way. She had been given a<br />
$30,000 matching grant and was in the process of raising the funds to<br />
meet the match and: “Would we help?”<br />
Since receiving the matching grant, Linda and her team have raised an<br />
additional $15,000. She needs only $15,000 more to create a space that<br />
will not only provide the ‘fish’ that people need but will also teach the<br />
‘fishing skills’ that are necessary for self-reliance. This has been Linda’s<br />
watchword since she came to Tree of Life, always engaging with the<br />
community to give back, help out, and encourage locals to take the lead<br />
wherever and whenever possible.<br />
A donation toward this matching grant can help give this community<br />
another tool for self-reliance and self-improvement. Send your gift to BUMC and<br />
mark Tree of Life in the memo line. Watch this space for future reports on the<br />
ministry; and thank you.<br />
The soup kitchen<br />
normally serves<br />
breakfast and lunch<br />
every weekday.<br />
Celebrating our relationship<br />
with Tree of Life,<br />
our mission trip and the<br />
tuxedo project.<br />
When we were asked to<br />
provide tuxedos for the<br />
young men at prom time,<br />
some of our members<br />
found a way. Linda again<br />
expressed her thanks for<br />
the additional shipment<br />
of tuxedos that arrived<br />
last month in preparation<br />
for this year’s prom<br />
and at the same time<br />
her sadness for all the<br />
students who are missing<br />
the traditional rituals of<br />
senior year.<br />
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We are Easter people, a people of hope and great faithfulness. Especially in this time, we are<br />
eager to Do.Be.Live. Church – to worship together, to care for one another and to reach out<br />
to our neighbors and our world.<br />
GIVE+Text | One of the fastest ways to give<br />
In less time than it takes to write a check to Barrington UMC, you can now make weekly offerings and<br />
respond to special appeals by simply sending a text message to (847) 469-9048 with the amount you<br />
would like to give as the text message. You will receive responses to prompt you through the process.<br />
Our missions and ministries continue albeit in new and different ways. Our staff continues<br />
to work to bring worship, devotions, music and programming to our church community –<br />
children, youth, adults and families alike. We are ever mindful of those who are hurting and<br />
continue to need our help during these times. And, we continue to care for our buildings<br />
including regular bills for utilities, maintenance and insurance.<br />
We ask for your continuing support of our churches. We are collecting our mail, making<br />
deposits, and paying our bills. We ask that you give:<br />
Mailing your regular donations to your home church:<br />
Barrington UMC, 98 Algonquin Road, Barrington, IL 60010<br />
First UMC West Dundee, 318 W. Main Street, West Dundee, IL 60118<br />
Online through your bank’s bill paying service;<br />
Online through your church’s website, www.barringtonumc.com or www.fumcwd.org,<br />
either of which will direct you to our provider of many years, Vanco Payment Solutions.<br />
On your first visit, you will need to ‘Create Your Online Profile’ (on the lower right<br />
hand side). After you’ve entered your email and selected a password, you will<br />
first be asked for your donation amount and then be asked to select your method<br />
of payment which can be either a card or a bank account. You will receive a<br />
confirmation email.<br />
After you have set up your profile, you can simply sign in and make a donation or<br />
pay for a special program.<br />
Barrington UMC also offers a Text to Give option detailed on the opposite page.<br />
Dial (847) 469-9048, set up your profile in a few steps, and enter an amount to give to the<br />
operating fund into the text line.<br />
Each and every gift is always gratefully received, especially in this time when we are apart.<br />
CHURCH<br />
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10-Digit Give Plus Text #: 847-469-9048<br />
Frequently Asked Questions<br />
How to give to BUMC<br />
by text message:<br />
After registering, you will receive<br />
instructions on how to send donations<br />
by text message. Text donations are<br />
sent to a 10-digit number where they<br />
are received and processed by Vanco,<br />
BUMC’s online payment service.<br />
How will you know when your<br />
donation is processed?<br />
You will receive immediate<br />
confirmation via text that your<br />
donation was received. After a text<br />
donation has been processed, it<br />
appears on your credit card or bank<br />
statement.<br />
How quickly are text<br />
donations deposited?<br />
Text donations are electronically<br />
deposited into the BUMC’s bank<br />
account within 2 to 4 business days for<br />
debit and credit card transactions.<br />
Church Name: Barrington United Methodist Church<br />
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dollar amount?<br />
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of each donation.<br />
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my mobile phone bill?<br />
No. Donations are processed using<br />
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financial information.<br />
What payment methods are available<br />
for giving by text?<br />
Vanco’s Give+ Text supports donations<br />
via debit and credit cards.<br />
Can I set up recurring<br />
donations by text?<br />
Yes. You can text “Repeat” after you<br />
have made a donation to make it<br />
recurring. You can also text “Schedule”<br />
to set up a<br />
recurring donation.<br />
Can I text donations to<br />
individual funds?<br />
Currently, donations by text are<br />
deposited into the BUMC operating<br />
fund. If you would like your<br />
donation to be directed otherwise,<br />
please contact Lynne Richardson,<br />
lrichardson@barringtonumc.com.<br />
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The people of God sing in all times and all places. Miriam sang songs of celebration after<br />
crossing of the Red Sea. David sang in despair when he had Uriah killed. Jesus and the<br />
disciples sang a hymn as they left the Last Supper toward Gethsemane. Paul and Silas sang<br />
praise in prison.<br />
Do you have a favorite song of praise? Or faith? Or comfort? Share your favorite hymn<br />
with your church family. Jot down your story in a paragraph and email it to Patti Mangis,<br />
pmangis@barringtonumc.com. Put “this is our story” in the subject line. Include a<br />
photograph if you have one.<br />
In this time of confined insolation, I find myself at the piano playing my favorite<br />
comforting hymns; those which Mom sang with me in the farmhouse during my grade<br />
school years. One of those hymns was written by Thomas Dorsey at the time his wife died<br />
giving birth to their first child, who also died. He was lost in grief, sat down at the piano<br />
and composed “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”. The three verses captured a suffering soul<br />
that is reaching out. He is at the end of his rope, “I am tired, I am weak, I am worn”. There<br />
have been several times in my career where I was tired, weak and worn including layoff by<br />
a major biological manufacturer in New Jersey. Not only was I faced with the challenges<br />
and uncertainties of unemployment, my Dad passed away back home in Illinois and my<br />
family needed me. I was at the end of my rope. In the sixth month of unemployment,<br />
severance pay was running out, when God heard my cry and held my hand lest I fall. I was<br />
offered a job at a medical device manufacturer in the Chicago suburbs, and my house sold<br />
prior to listing. Mom was in the hospital in intensive care, and I drove to Illinois in one<br />
day. Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home. —Nancy Jensen<br />
These are the words to one of my favorite hymns. I was 5 or 6 when I<br />
attended church with my dear grandma Aukerman at a Methodist Church<br />
in Bridgeport, Ohio. I remember us standing for the hymn, she would take my<br />
hand and boy would she belt out that hymn! It became one of my favorites<br />
because she was such an important part of my life. Even today when we sing it<br />
at church I can barely get the words out because I can still hear her voice and<br />
feel her love. —Sheila Harrigan<br />
Holy holy holy<br />
Lord God Almighty<br />
Early in the morning<br />
our song shall rise to thee<br />
Holy holy holy<br />
Merciful and mighty<br />
God in three persons blessed Trinity<br />
My Grandma Aukerman with Grandpa and<br />
Uncle Russell. —Shiela Harrigan<br />
Visit barringtonumc.com/my-story-my-song to hear recodings of these hymns.<br />
Nancy Jensen’s music room.<br />
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As these days of Social Distancing pass by, I’m drawn to my grounding tools. For me,<br />
that is music. At home, I play the radio all day long. I generally switch between two<br />
public radio stations, WFMT 98.7 for classical or WDCB 91.5 for jazz. They make up my life<br />
soundtrack, I suppose. One of my favorite songs that has ministered to me during difficult<br />
times by singing it or listening to it is a song written by an East coast songwriter, singer,<br />
director, author and friend, David Friedman. He told me that he wrote this during a time<br />
of upheaval in his life. When I sing it, it helps me to believe that while I may not feel like<br />
God is paying attention, He has, in fact, already planted people into my future to help me.<br />
As I have experienced various upheavals in my 58 years, I have met amazing individuals<br />
who stepped in to help me from all over the country. During this time, I can draw on God’s<br />
words and this song to reassure me. Go in peace, my friends. —Holly McNeill<br />
HELP IS ON THE WAY by David Friedman<br />
Don’t give up the ship, even when it’ sinking and you don’t know what to do.<br />
Don’t give up your dreams, even though you may be thinking they never<br />
will come true.<br />
Life has its own ideas of how things come<br />
about and if you just hang in there, life is<br />
gonna work it out.<br />
Because I am a church musician, you can imagine that many hymns dwell in<br />
my heart. At first I thought it would be hard to choose one. But as Holy Week<br />
approaches, I vividly remember coming home from church on Palm Sundays and<br />
going straight to the piano with my mom, because we wanted to sing “All Glory,<br />
Laud and Honor” one more time. Such a great hymn. Full of strength and promise<br />
and praise. But you only get to sing it once a year! So after waving our palm<br />
branches at church, we would come home and sing it again.<br />
As I grew up and started serving as a church musician, every year it would<br />
sneak up on me. I would be standing in the back of a church getting ready to<br />
lead a procession of palm-waving kids and adults into the sanctuary. I would<br />
hear the first chords of “All Glory, Laud and Honor,” and suddenly my heart<br />
would fly back in time to playing the piano with my mom at my shoulder,<br />
singing together prayers and praises to Jesus.<br />
How blessed are we, dear friends, that in this tumultuous and uncertain time<br />
we can lean on these hymns. This year when Palm Sunday comes, we won’t<br />
be together physically. Yet still we can still lift our voices together, singing<br />
prayers and praises to Jesus who delights in all good, who lavishes us with<br />
grace and who deserves all glory, laud and honor.<br />
—Patti Mangis<br />
Help is on the way, from places you don’t<br />
know about today. From friends you may not<br />
have met, yet, believe me when I say, Help is<br />
on the way.<br />
You don’t have to know, where the path<br />
you’re on is leading, you just have to walk<br />
along, dreaming as you go, asking for the<br />
things you’re needing, you never can go<br />
wrong. If you have faith that things are<br />
happening as they should and just believe<br />
each step you take is leading you to something good,<br />
Help is on the way, from places you don’t know about today. From friends you may<br />
not have met, yet, believe me when I say, Help is on the way.<br />
So open your heart, open your mind, no matter how you’ve tried and failed,<br />
tomorrow you may turn and find that<br />
Patti with her mother,<br />
Joan Fowler Hughes,<br />
approximately 15 years ago.<br />
Visit barringtonumc.com/my-story-my-song to hear recodings of these hymns.<br />
Help is on the way, from places you don’t know about today. From friends you may<br />
not have met, yet, believe me when I say, Help is on the way.<br />
Help is on the way.<br />
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Each of our pastors has committed to send a reflection once a week. You can expect to<br />
receive a Note of Encouragement by email each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Here<br />
is a sample, if you would like to sign up to receive these, please send your email to<br />
communications@barringtonumc.com.<br />
Maybe Twice Isn’t Enough<br />
I don’t know if I really feel like rejoicing right now. I’ve been running on adrenaline for<br />
a few weeks, rethinking how we can keep being communities of faith in the midst of<br />
a global pandemic, but now I’m coming back down to earth with a thud — like Wile E.<br />
Coyote in those old cartoons. With everything that is going on — the anxiety, the loss, the<br />
sadness — I don’t want to listen to Paul’s call.<br />
Reading this passage from Philippians again today, I had to step away from it for a<br />
moment. I have to take a deep breath and remember that Paul, who gives the command to<br />
“rejoice” to his friends in Philippi, was likely suffering. He was under house arrest. He was<br />
awaiting word from someone in an office far from him, and appealing to every power on<br />
earth and heaven with the hope he would be released. It<br />
seems quite grim, yet, to the people whom he loves, he<br />
says “Rejoice.”<br />
It is more than a suggestion to “be positive,” or “think<br />
happy thoughts.” It is a call to keep celebrating in spite<br />
of everything that is happening. Don’t worry. Instead,<br />
rejoice to turn the tide of pain.<br />
The struggles of the world should not preclude us from<br />
being joyful. In fact, operating from a core of joy — even<br />
if it is tiny — is necessary if we are to have any hope that<br />
the world can change. If we are unable to begin with<br />
joy, we fall prey to fatalism and despondency. This is<br />
why the Philippians are told twice to rejoice; it is that<br />
important to the future of faith and community.<br />
Maybe twice isn’t enough for us today. Maybe, for hope to thrive, we need to hear it<br />
thrice. Maybe it needs to be looped. Maybe it needs to be our alarm, our ringtone, and<br />
text notification sound. Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice! Maybe we need to<br />
say it again and again — as many times as it takes — until we can actually do it.<br />
Say it again and again until it becomes your reality.<br />
Rejoice.<br />
Reboot, Renew, Reassess<br />
When I was a teenager, one of my best friends was Scott Lafoy. Scott and his family moved to<br />
Naperville and started attending Community UMC where my father was pastor and where I was<br />
very involved in the United Methodist Youth Fellowship. When Scott started attending youth<br />
group, we discovered that we shared a number of the same interests: sports, fishing, cars and<br />
girls as I recall. One other thing that Scott and I had in common was that we were both the sons<br />
of very “type A,” driven, workaholic fathers who were impatient and demanding.<br />
One day Moses Lafoy—Scott’s dad—suffered a massive heart attack on the floor of the Chicago<br />
Stock Exchange where he was a very successful trader. Moses Lafoy’s death was deeply troubling<br />
for me. In part because my friend had lost his father, but also because I was convinced that his<br />
death should have been a sign, a wakeup call to my own<br />
father. Of course, from my perspective, my father was too<br />
busy and preoccupied with living his calling as a pastor to<br />
see the handwriting on the wall and refused to slow down<br />
even a little bit.<br />
Later, I came to realize that God doesn’t work the way I<br />
thought. Moses Lafoy didn’t die to teach my father some<br />
kind of cosmic lesson; he died because he had heart disease<br />
exacerbated by the stress of job, his drive to achieve and<br />
what was likely an unhealthy lifestyle. And yet, as I have<br />
reflected on that terrible time, I have also come to realize<br />
that there are often lessons embedded in tragedy that we<br />
can learn when they are viewed through the eyes of faith.<br />
I wonder if we should pay attention to new perspectives<br />
this COVID-19 crisis provides for us. Perhaps this time of forced solitude can teach us the<br />
value of having friends we love, a community of faith that cares for us, and a church to journey<br />
with. Perhaps those of us who also struggle against those “type A” tendencies, who are driven<br />
to succeed, to acquire more and better stuff, or even to “save” the church, can take this<br />
opportunity to adopt healthier habits and routines.<br />
I want to encourage you to take time—forced upon us as it may be—to reboot, renew and<br />
reassess what is really important in life. Indeed, I would suggest that doing so is the most faithful<br />
response we can have in a time such as this. My prayer is that as we “shelter-in-place,” we<br />
would find shelter in the God who loves us and wants only the best for us, even as we know that<br />
suffering is part of the human condition.<br />
—Pastor Chris Winkler<br />
—Pastor Matthew Johnson<br />
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Unexpected Gifts<br />
Gifts are wonderful things. Sometimes they are tangible and material. Sometimes<br />
they are more ethereal and abstract. Sometimes they are anticipated and expected.<br />
Sometimes they are unexpected and surprising.<br />
My husband gave me a treadmill for Christmas this year. This gift has given me both<br />
expected and totally unexpected benefits.<br />
Expected: I am walking every day and that means I am more fit and have greater energy.<br />
I am eating and sleeping better. Taking care of yourself in one area has a way of spilling<br />
over into other areas as well. The treadmill gives me an almost immediate outlet to<br />
let off some steam, work out some frustration, and, in these days of the pandemic and<br />
economic collapse, walk off some anxiety, tension, and worry about things that impact<br />
me, but I have no ability to impact in return.<br />
want to hold onto and incorporate into our new ways of being. For example, videotaping our<br />
worship services (or at least parts of them) is proving to be a great gift to those who cannot<br />
physically come to church but still long to be part of in community. Through it all, we are<br />
reaching new people.<br />
In these crazy days, let us find ways to delight in the gifts of time and the ability to simply be.<br />
There are unexpected gifts being given, let’s remember to receive them.<br />
—Rev. Wendy A. Witt<br />
Unexpected: The unexpected gift that truly delights me is now that I use the treadmill<br />
for power walking and stress relief, I am discovering the joy of being outside and simply<br />
strolling. Walking with my dog, allowing her to stop and smell all the smells, and instead<br />
of being irritated and tugging at her leash, I use this time to breathe deeply and be<br />
aware of the beauty that is all around me. Sounds quaint, but it is so true, I am hearing<br />
and seeing things on my strolls that I had never noticed before. I stop and watch the<br />
kids playing in the park. I hear the birds sing, and stop to listen. I walk along the river,<br />
slowly, and enjoy the beauty and consistency of the flowing water. I see the flowers and<br />
plants trying to push their way through the soil to bring us beauty and color. On these<br />
daily strolls, I am finding the simple pleasures of simply being.<br />
This time of social distancing now compounded by the state-mandated “stay@home”<br />
order, has also been a gift in many ways.<br />
Expected: Time to slow down and rest. Time to read, meditate, and journal. Time<br />
to cook and eat new and healthy meals. Time to be silent and time to be in deeper<br />
dialogue with others.<br />
Unexpected: As is the case when crisis strikes, we are coming together as a community<br />
in new ways. People are reaching out to one another and finding creative ways to<br />
stay connected; there is a willingness to try new ways of communicating and showing<br />
care. Neighbors who normally rush by each other, are pausing and waving, shouting<br />
greetings across the street. We are finding new ways to DO BE LIVE Church. Some of<br />
these will be temporary and will go away with the end of the pandemic. Others we may<br />
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New Members of Barrington UMC<br />
Reflection<br />
We are thrilled to welcome our newest members<br />
Rebecca & Luis Guerra and Kay & Bob Mukomela.<br />
On behalf of the Church and Society Committee, we hope you are safe and offer<br />
this anonymous poem as a reflection.<br />
Today I was warmed by fires I did not build.<br />
I drank from a well I did not dig.<br />
I sat in the shade of a tree I did not plant.<br />
Let me pause to give thanks for the efforts of those who came<br />
before me and vow that I too, shall work to make the world a<br />
better place for those who follow.<br />
UMW Geranium Sale<br />
Sunday, May 10, is coming up soon, and it is not only Mother’s Day but also the day of<br />
our United Methodist Women’s Geranium Sale! We have been in touch with Sherry at<br />
Hager’s Country Store and have talked about this year’s sale. The growing season has<br />
just begun in central Illinois, where we purchase the plants from a nursery there. At<br />
this time, we are not sure how the Coronavirus is affecting the local<br />
nursery personnel. Thus, we are not sure but are very hopeful we<br />
will have geraniums to offer to you this Mother’s Day.<br />
To prepare for the sale, we are asking you to start thinking<br />
about how many you would like to purchase (at $5.50<br />
each) and to fill out one of the forms below so we will be<br />
ready to serve you. Please order your flowers online,<br />
barringtonumc.com/geraniums or fill out the form<br />
below and mail to Norma W. Jung-Stein, at 1272 Noble<br />
Drive, Port Barrington, IL 60010. We appreciate your<br />
participation in helping us meet our “giving” to United<br />
Methodist Women. Thank you, Norma<br />
Five colors will again be offered—white, light pink, salmon,<br />
bright red (traditional), and bright violet (a blue-red) in 4.5”<br />
pots. We’d like everyone to fill out one of the order forms no<br />
matter how many or few you order.<br />
Bless you all, Norma Jung-Stein, Chairperson<br />
Name<br />
Email<br />
Phone<br />
White Light Pink Salmon Bright Red Bright Violet<br />
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Update | Women’s One Day Retreat For the health and safety of our collective<br />
community, the Women’s RENEW One Day Retreat scheduled for <strong>April</strong> 4 has been<br />
canceled. Further information will be provided as it becomes available.<br />
Update | Traveling Tea Party The Traveling Tea Party has been suspended until<br />
further notice. If you are in need of meals or of transportation to a medical appointment,<br />
please contact the Member Care Team through the church office, (847) 836-5540, or email<br />
Elaine Anderson, RNEAA@comcast.net.<br />
Update | Volunteer Appreciation Brunch We look forward to rescheduling this<br />
brunch once we are worshiping back in the building. Stay well!<br />
The Member Care team would like to share this article recently printed in the Daily Herald.<br />
Turn Concern Over Coronavirus Into Silent Prayer<br />
by Annettee Budzban | March 20, <strong>2020</strong><br />
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear,<br />
but power, and of love ...”<br />
— 2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)<br />
I<br />
was shocked when my routine trip for<br />
groceries looked more like a Black Friday<br />
frenzy. Except for the hot items on sale<br />
weren’t the latest technology or toys, they<br />
were everyday needs such as water, sanitary<br />
wipes, and the hottest commodity of all was<br />
toilet paper.<br />
I was amazed that toilet paper would ever<br />
be in such high demand. It shows how not to<br />
take for granted the simple things in life, such<br />
as clean water and T.P.<br />
Usually, lines from the checkout to the back<br />
of the store occur the day after Thanksgiving.<br />
Other than lines at the gas pumps created by<br />
the Oil Embargo back in the 1970s, and Black<br />
Fridays, I haven’t seen anything like this.<br />
Even the swine flu epidemic years ago, which<br />
took the life of a family member of mine, was<br />
not dealt with nearly as severe as this. And<br />
the fact we lose 20,000 people each year to<br />
complications of the flu in the U.S., doesn’t<br />
cause us to hit the panic button. So why so<br />
much chaos and pandemonium this time?<br />
As a medical professional, I clearly<br />
understand the seriousness of the disease.<br />
When my friend sent a text to inquire if I was<br />
washing my hands, I replied, “You’re talking<br />
to a nurse. And my sons have been listening<br />
to me get on them for years about their<br />
hand-washing habits.” Now with the recent<br />
growing popularity of hand sanitizer, I feel I<br />
have finally been vindicated for all my years<br />
of nagging my kids to wash their hands.<br />
Besides gaining awareness of hand-washing<br />
precautions, I’m concerned with our<br />
attentiveness to how God wants us to handle<br />
a crisis.<br />
The Bible claims we haven’t been born<br />
again with a spirit of fear, but calm. Yet,<br />
we haven’t quite learned how to be calm in<br />
chaotic times. Jesus managed to walk straight<br />
through a mob of people trying to kill him.<br />
That’s an amazing example of calm in a<br />
chaotic situation.<br />
I wonder when God tells us to remain calm,<br />
could it be because hitting the panic button<br />
causes us to become our own worst enemy.<br />
Perhaps in our panicked state, we tend to hoard<br />
and hurt instead of share and help. By looking<br />
out for number one, we can lose sight of others,<br />
then often someone gets physically hurt, or<br />
I know this is a frightening time. We want<br />
to be aware of the potential danger, yet use<br />
wisdom and quench any undue fears and<br />
panic. It’s not wrong to feel afraid. Even the<br />
most mature can be challenged to stay calm<br />
in the crisis. The difference is they manage to<br />
control their fearful urges. Like when we feel<br />
the impulse to push the panic button, we can<br />
turn the terror to silent prayer and let God<br />
know we need his healing and protection over<br />
our family, community and nation. We can<br />
add special prayers for the healing of those<br />
their needs go neglected in the process.<br />
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afflicted.<br />
For our economic strain, this crisis has<br />
caused, we can pray for wisdom and strategic<br />
plans for our businesses and households.<br />
And we can seek wise advice or counsel from<br />
friends or professionals who can help us keep<br />
things in a proper perspective.<br />
When shopping, we can practice patience<br />
with the store checkers and other servers<br />
who are working extra hard to take care of<br />
us. And we can work on our ability to trust<br />
God to supply all we need without our need<br />
to hoard.<br />
We can check that our family and friends<br />
have their needs met. Caring for others has a<br />
way of turning around and blessing us.<br />
When we’re stuck at home, we can turn our<br />
anxious thoughts into prayers to calm our<br />
nerves. We can play a game or put a puzzle<br />
together, or as my friend exclaims, watch our<br />
favorite movie on our streaming network.<br />
This gives us something constructive to do,<br />
making us more at ease, and shows God we’ve<br />
turned our tension into trust.<br />
With help from above and these things in<br />
practice, we can show ourselves to be calm<br />
and confident in the midst of the crisis. It’s<br />
my personal prayer, all your needs are met,<br />
and you stay safe, fed and healthy. God Bless.<br />
Annettee Budzban is an author, speaker, life<br />
coach, nurse and Bible teacher. Annettee<br />
is available to speak to your church group,<br />
business, civic organization or be your<br />
personal life coach. She can be contacted at<br />
Annetteebudzban@aol.com or (847) 543-8413.<br />
This article is printed with permission.
If you are someone who happens to have some extra free time, here are some suggestions<br />
from the website, unitedmethodistwomen.org, following the purpose of United<br />
Methodist Women:<br />
“...to know God and experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ”<br />
If you would like a prayer for those affected by coronavirus:<br />
unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/prayer-and-responsive-reading-for-thoseaffected-by-coronavirus<br />
If you would like meditations for the Lenten season. You will be able to go to additional<br />
links for each Sunday from this site.<br />
unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/first-sunday-in-lent-a-time-for-self-awareness<br />
“...to develop a creative, supportive fellowship...” Well, this takes a little imagination at the<br />
moment, but in addition to reaching out via calls, emails, or any other actions you deem<br />
safe, you can read about creative women:<br />
“and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global<br />
ministries of the church.”<br />
Check out response magazine:<br />
unitedmethodistwomen.org/response<br />
Listen to podcasts on a variety of subjects:<br />
unitedmethodistwomen.org/faithtalks<br />
Read about the four social justice issue priorities:<br />
unitedmethodistwomen.org/issues<br />
If you find yourself shopping from Amazon, consider choosing “United<br />
Methodist Women Northern Illinois Conference” your Amazon Smile recipient<br />
(learn more about this by entering “amazon smile” in the search box).<br />
The fellowship of eight women in 1869 led to a school in India, which is now Isabella<br />
Thoburn College: unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/living-the-legacy-in-india<br />
Check out the <strong>2020</strong> Reading Program list, see if your library can connect you to<br />
a digital copy, find a friend to read the same book and start a “mini book club”:<br />
unitedmethodistwomen.org/readingprogram<br />
Read about 10 Christian Women Shaping the Church in <strong>2020</strong><br />
sojo.net/articles/10-christian-women-shaping-church-<strong>2020</strong><br />
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Hello!<br />
It is so good to be connecting with you in this small way! I miss seeing<br />
everyone’s smiling faces on Sundays! What strange and anxious times<br />
we are experiencing. I wanted to remind everyone that I am here if anyone needs to chat or<br />
needs some good ole human interaction! The Youth Team and I are committed to being here for<br />
and with each of you as we navigate these unusual circumstances. Please feel free to reach out<br />
to Tammy, Susan, or me if you need anything. We will do all that we can to help you!<br />
While we are separated in body, it is my intention and goal that we will remain connected<br />
in spirit. To help with this, we have scheduled a virtual God’s Squad at 6:15 p.m. on Sunday<br />
evenings until we are able to meet in person again. We will hang out, chat, have a short lesson,<br />
and pray together. It is even more important in times such as these that we remain connected<br />
and together as the Body of Christ and the God’s Squad family! You can find the link to our<br />
Google Hangout below.<br />
I hope to see all the youth’s beautiful faces this Sunday! In the meantime, please do not hesitate<br />
to reach out to me at bbevers@barringtonumc.com.<br />
As that great Troy Bolton once said, We’re All in This Together! :-)<br />
Blessings and Peace, Pastor Bonnie<br />
God’s Squad: We have scheduled a virtual God’s Squad at 6:15 p.m. on Sunday evenings. We<br />
will hang out, chat, have a short lesson, and pray together. meet.google.com/ffr-onpt-snc<br />
FAMILY MINISTRY<br />
“Once Upon a Parable”<br />
Our multisite youth delighted the First UMC<br />
congregation with their performance of the<br />
musical “Once Upon A Parable” on Sunday,<br />
March 8.<br />
Walk with Jesus<br />
In light of current public health concerns<br />
around the COVID-19 virus, we are<br />
disappointed to have to cancel this event.<br />
We hope you are staying safe and healthy. If<br />
you have not already, be sure to follow us on<br />
our multisite family & youth Facebook Page<br />
facebook.com/groups/bumcyouthgroup.<br />
LEAP YEAR GAME NIGHT! | Thank you for the<br />
great evening!<br />
Confirmation: We have scheduled virtual gatherings at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday evenings.<br />
meet.google.com/jee-paag-fte<br />
Multisite Family & Youth Facebook Page: Stay connected with the<br />
multisite families and youth by joining the facebook page, www.facebook.com/groups/<br />
bumcyouthgroup/<br />
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We are getting creative with our e-learning. We love our kids and miss seeing<br />
them in person but it has been so great to see all their smiling faces online.<br />
We are so blessed to have our amazing staff of teachers. While the classrooms<br />
are empty, we have had the opportunity to give them all a really deep cleaning.<br />
At this time, our NACA Summer Camp is still scheduled for May 26–June 12! Children<br />
ages 3 through kindergarten are invited to outdoor adventures in the Nature Explore<br />
Classroom Sign up for one, two or all three weeks. For more information, or to register,<br />
call (847) 844-3738.<br />
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First UMC West Dundee<br />
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